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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-09 05:22 AM
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Defrocked Monsignor "Rev." Ted Haggard to start new Church soon
The Ted Haggard Crystal Meth-o-dist Church...
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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-09 05:25 AM
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1. ...
how wonderful :sarcasm:
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-09 05:36 AM
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2. "Say Amen Somebody!"
Now Now...Ted was W's go to preacher who spoke with the pResident every week on the phone...I wonder what in the Hell they talked about?
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-09 05:46 AM
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3. They prolly talked of Larry Craig and how he shouldn't be risking his ass in them stalls
He never listened....

Good to see ya man....
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-09 05:54 AM
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4. Good to see you!
Ted Haggard is the first preacher I ever heard of that used KY jelly to "Back Slide"
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-09 11:20 AM
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5. The Poor Thing....even his name fucks him up....Haggard means "one who looks tired and spent" in
Chinese


Is he making a cum back per chance??
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-09 06:05 PM
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11. "Oh blinding light, oh light that blinds, watch out for me I...
cannot see!"

Ted wouldn't have ever repented for his shit had he never been told on. His entire life was and is, a fucking sham.

Even Ted's "Jerusalem Diet" was prolly a sham, because Ted prolly stayed skinny snorting Meth.

I wouldn't trust Ted Haggard in a shit-house with a muzzle on, let alone having him advise me on what's best for my eternal soul.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-09 07:41 PM
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14. That fella gives "SELLING MY SOUL" New meaning
A man without a Country, a man w/o a Flock, a man w/o a Concious, a man with the Hyp's, He is w/o Charactor.....the po thang...
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-09 11:44 AM
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6. He can't get a job doing anything else.
Frankly, he probably OUGHT to do that. First, he should acknowledge (or confront) his sexual issues, and he could probably have a meaningful ministry to former evangelicals who are "similarly situated."

A church OUGHT to be a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Bake
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-09 05:46 PM
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8. Didin't Haggard recently come out in favor of Civil Unions?
I seem to remember seeing an interview with him on the news about a month back.
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ChickMagic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-09 05:00 PM
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7. Geez
And he will no doubt have a devoted following. Blech.
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annarbor Donating Member (543 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-09 05:48 PM
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9. Will it be Gay-Friendly?
Perhaps a nice Unitarian Church?

-snark!-
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-09 05:59 PM
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10. Ill start my own church! With gambling and hookers!
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-09 06:06 PM
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12. Deal me in!
I think you'd do just as well as Ted would!
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-09 06:33 PM
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13. I saw the documentary that Pelosi's daughter Alexandra made of his life after...
the so-called fall. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Pelosi


"The Trials of Ted Haggard, chronicling the exile of Ted Haggard from New Life Church after his sex and drug scandal. The film was critically acclaimed: Oprah called it 'riveting', Anderson Cooper called it 'fascinating', and Larry King called Pelosi 'a terrific tv producer'."

I found that it's impossibly hard to hate Ted Haggard or to get any satisfaction after seeing him and his family struggle so hard while they were banished. What he did to the gay community though is still inexcusable and without pardon and his punishment has been quite in keeping with the crime since it gives him a serious taste of the suffering he's been causing others. At some point he must have thought about that.

Alexandra Pelosi, to give her credit stayed away from portraying the family members very much. They were literally exiled from the state and had to leave their home empty while they were gone without knowing when and if they would be allowd back. I couldn't help feeling sorry for him even though I kept thinking that if he would just come clean and outed himself to the LBGT community with an apology that he would have been received with more compassion that his Church leaders ever showed. But maybe he just couldn't find it in himself to out himself to his wife and children.

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