Exodus: From The Mountaintop Into The Desert

[DeSwiss]

I know that none us can possibly get enough news about the man who has done so much for the Dems and Progressives everywhere. Particularly last November.

So for those of you who are scoring at home, here's the latest on our favorite "ungayed" preacher: The Tedster....

SOURCE: AP (HuffPo)

Haggard Leaves Colorado

By ERIC GORSKI
April 18, 2007 07:37 PM EST

DENVER — The Rev. Ted Haggard moved Wednesday from his longtime home in Colorado Springs to Phoenix, where the disgraced minister will join the same church that helped fallen televangelist Jim Bakker.

Haggard, 50, resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals last year, after a former male prostitute alleged a three-year cash-for-sex relationship. The man also said he saw Haggard use methamphetamine. Haggard confessed to undisclosed "sexual immorality" and said he bought meth but never used it.

As part of his severance package from New Life Church, a 14,000-member congregation he started in his basement, Haggard agreed to leave Colorado Springs, a city he helped make an evangelical center.

"When he moved out of town today, there was a kind of relief on the part of the church that life can get back to normal," said the Rev. H.B. London, one of three ministers overseeing what has been called Haggard's "restoration." "For the Haggards, it is the beginning of a huge new chapter. It's a brand new start for them, the beginning of a new beginning."

lmore: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070418/haggard-scandal

*** - So they are saying that its a relief that he's gone now? Oh NO!!!!! Where's all that Christian love, understanding and forgiveness that should be on display as an example to the rest of us heathens???

And they are saying that its a brand new beginning for the Haggard's too, eh? Well, I beg to differ. To me it's the same old story with the same tired plot. God forgives, but you have to move to Phoenix. Bummer.

On the other hand, Phoenix is closer to where most of the country's meth comes from. So maybe it was a smart move. Who knows????

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