Do you believe "Focus on Family" boss Haggard when he says he only got a back rub from the male prostitute?
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I did not believe him at all. It really shows how stupid people think the general public is...because they think we'll buy their lies, no matter how ridiculous. But since then he has confessed to all of it. He admitted to the sex and drugs. I can't say I'm at all surprised.
770239
I wouldn't worry about the possibility of them being like Haggard, I don't believe this sort of sexual deviancy is much more common amongst christians than anyone else. But do worry about the logical circuits in your children's heads. They may get corrupted with the god delusion.
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Reba K –\n\nThe “Bush's top evangelical yesterday who uses gay prostitutes,…” you mention is the person he asked the question about.\n\nAnd Teresa A –\n\nThe dems certainly have their share of faults, but conservatives seem to have a lock on hypocrisy, and that is hard ot deny:\n\nSTOP REPUBLICAN PEDOPHILIA\n\n•Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress after "sexually explicit" emails surfaced showing him flirting with a 16-year old boy. \n\n•Republican executive Randall Casseday of the conservative Washington Times newspaper was arrested for soliciting sex from a 13-year old girl on the internet. \n\n•Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition Lou Beres confessed to molesting a 13-year old girl. \n\n•Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable. \n\n•Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation. \n\n•Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy. \n\n•Republican petition drive manager Tom Randall pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 14, one of them the daughter of an associate in the petition business. \n\n•Republican County Chairman Armando Tebano was arrested for sexually molesting a 14-year-old girl. \n\n•Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls. \n\n•Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker is a convicted child molester. \n\n•Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls. \n\n•Republican Mayor Tom Adams was arrested for distributing child pornography over the internet. \n\n•Republican Mayor John Gosek was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls. \n\n•Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison. \n\n•Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17. \n\n•Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor. \n\n•Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida. \n\n•Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader pleaded guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered. \n\n•Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor. \n\n•Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl. \n\n•Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child. \n\n•Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile. \n\n•Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl. \n\n•Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was sentenced to six years in prison for molesting two 8-year old girls, one of whom appeared in an anti-Gore television commercial. \n\n•Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s. \n\n•Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s. \n\n•Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty
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i really don't think the bumper sticker or the fact that he is or you think he is republican has anything to do with him being an incested pig....\nisn't this the same thing that most people do to blacks?...one bad seed and they hate them all or put them all down with their words....\nI'm sure there are many other things you could be doing with your time
949508
I think it's good that he has stepped down from his church and from the other organization he was leading, but Christians also need to cut out the gossip and gawking and pray for the guy. Check out the blog entry below that I just posted about Haggard.
148721
I certainly dont think so. I think that the whole broke back bs is an dis on the men & women that had the balls to tame this great country.   ;-)
891921
You are very smart. Nobody seems to realize what you have just stated. Have you heard the news report of the pastor who paid for meth with sex with a homosexual? It kinda is embarrassing!
575360
Some are so sexually unsatisfied that they find it necessary to engage as many clients as possible to satisfy the urge. It is a great way to make money in the oldest profession in the world. Some are recruited to make money for their pimps and some do it because they need an income. None of them hate the work. Sex is a good thing just ask Reverend Bakker and his wife Tammy. I am told that the Reverend has passed away so it will be hard to get him to admit anything.
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Growing up in a heteronormative society where being gay is considered inherently evil, Ted Haggard suppressed his sexuality. In an attempt to change, he turned to God and even spoke out against gays and lesbians. In a bid for normalcy, he married and had a family.\n\nReverend Haggard now knows firsthand that sexuality cannot be changed. His own denial landed him in a relationship that could never bring him sexual satisfaction, despite what emotional bonds he may have with his wife. Unfortunately, it ended with lies and infidelity. It is probably his frustration and self-loathing that drove him to drugs.\n\nReverend Haggard has hurt his family terribly and there is no excuse for that. But the problem is not simply that he is gay -- the problem is that he succumbed to societal pressures and drew other into is fragile, fabricated lie.\n\nIt's not too late for Rev. Haggard to do something positive for society. He knows, perhaps better than anyone, that no amount of prayer can change someone's sexuality. He should admit that his political views were misguided. He should speak out against the pressures of heternormativity and speak up for committed, loving, honest relationships, gay and straight.
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...I don't know why that is (that few TV preachers are backed by or held accountable to any denomination or overseeing authority); some to be sure are money-grabbers. If one is accountable to no one, it can easily lead to abuses of many kinds.   I watch for doctrinal errors especially, lavish lifestyles, and endless pleas (and gimmicks) to get your money.  There are crooked evangelists and ministers, who have been caught in lies and criminal activity, but not all are crooked.  There are bad apples in every profession.\n...A biblical congregation should be led by male elders who are subject to God and each other.  I will not be part of a church which has no such elder board.\n...That is a warning sign to me.  Those who subject themselves to no one, are in danger of leading many astray, as in a cult following.  \n...Our pastor, re: any of his messages - he  encourages us to "check him out", to prove what he teaches.  The Berean Christians were commended in Acts 17:11 - "Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the Scriptures with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily, to see whether these things were so."\n...Don't be afraid to check them out - in fact, do check them out - examine the Scriptures daily, to see whether the things they teach are so.\n...God does know how to "clean house" too, that is, He is fully capable of removing people who dishonor His name. And in the end, Romans 14:12 says, "Each of us shall give account of himself to God."  They will not escape.
558160
He isn't a man, stay away from the lowlife, he is the lowest life form that God has ever created, and not worth you spitting on if he was on fire.  He is only out to get laid, and nothing more..His name isn't Mike O. from Cleveland, Tennessee is it?  He had 10 kids, and only married 1 of the mothers, but didn't stop him from making more.  Men like that, need to be castrated.  Turned into a UNIX where they can't get it up.
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My opinion is this, 1. He claims the title of Revrand but you never hear him preach a sermon from the Bible. 2. He claims to be a civil rights leader but he is more racist than most of the people he always is fighting against. 3.\nWhat has he personally done for you lately??  He hasn't anything for anybody who isn't enough of a somebody to get him on television, and whats all this guff about trying to get a pardon for that Murderer tookie williams,  misspelled and not capitalized on purpose, (I have no respect for a murderer) even if he wrote a million books.  I just figure Jesse Jackson got involved because it was a quick route to the TV cameras again.  Love and Hate are very big words.  As a child of God I must have love for my fellow man and so in a Christian way I love Jesse and hope he finds his way back to Jesus,  But I have no respect for the junk he's dishing out nowadays.
921200
In a remote South African gold mine, a miner was setting dynamite to blast a seam when it exploded taking one of his legs clean off.  As he was stretchered out, he was heard to sob "What will happen to me? I have a family to look after, we are very poor...who's ever going to want a one legged gold digger?" then his mobile phone rings..."Hello?  Who?  Oh, Sir Paul...what an honour..."\n\nOR...\n\nDid you hear that Paul's giving Heather her own plane as part of their divorce settlement?  She still has to shave the other leg herself though.
1031023
I think that it says less about you and more about HIM that he's telling everyone your business and "using" you.  It says about him that he is a USER, and has poor character and that he shouldnt be trusted by anyone.  Thats what I would hear if he were telling me all of your business.  I think that your only issue if I can call it that is choosing a little more wiser.   Other than that, the rest is a statement (not a good one) about him.
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Jesus actually ran his own escort service out of Nazareth and his twelve disciples were actually his posse of prostitutes that were rented out to King Herod's bi-sexual henchmen.\n\nJesus was gay, but celibate. True story.
759537
I used to try to give him the benefit of the doubt. He had hard shoes to fill bieng Mr. Brittany Spears. But, this morning I read that he is selling the tape of his and Brittany's honeymoon escapes. That is one sick puppy to do that to the mother of his children. I don't think a judge in this country will be giving K-Fed custody of his children. Or should I say Fed-X.
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The question we should be asking is this. Given that anybody allowed as close to Bush as Haggard has been is thoroughly investigated and researched by at least two agencies (CIA and SS), how can anybody pretend that they missed 4 years of drug sodden sex with a male prostitute. \n\nThere is no way Bush could not have known. Just like his father saying he was "out of the loop" when Ollie North sold military arms to Iran.\n\nYou can only play the "bad information" card so many times.\n\nNow, Bush wants to replace Rummy with one of his father's appointees from the CIA, the same CIA that he says is to blame for "bad information" which caused him to start a war in Iraq.\n\nNone of it is really funny, is it?