The world is a beautiful place
![[image: Pastor Ted]](http://davebgimp.com/images/ted_haggard.jpg)
Several months ago, I read a really fucked up article in Harper’s (an excellent magazine, by the way. Totally worth the dead trees) about the New Life Church and it’s leader, Pastor Ted Haggard. The article, which describes the rise, habits and history and controversy of the church as well as the modern evangelical movement in America blew my mind. I’d never really considered or been aware of the reality of a modern, Neo-Christian fascist movement. The people seemed brainless, their leaders seemed like oily thugs and the whole thing really disturbed me. Scary, bad people.
This morning, I read in the news that Pastor Ted was involved in a very lurid scandal involving the purchase and probable use of methamphetamine coupled with paid encounters over the last three years with a gay prostitute.
It’s like xmas in November. Seriously, somebody toss some confetti. Hail Satan!
Pastor Ted’s resigned from New Life Church and the Presidency of the NAE (over 30 million served!) as well making some admissions to buying meth but not using it and to hanging out with a male prostitute, but only getting a massage. Yeah… a massage—THAT’S the ticket!
Here’s a fun interview where he denies everything and tries to come across like such a good Christian. After that, enjoy some analysis of the voicemails of him calling the prostitute to order up some meth.
It really can’t get much sweeter than when a shit-filled, hate-bag like Pastor Ted gets outed as the hypocritical, meth-toking, reach-around-guy he is. The media is going to burn him alive. I for one, would like to melt s’mores off the flames.
The world is full of evil people, horrible things and bad endings. It’s really nice to know that every once in a while the planet rights itself and some good ol’ karmic justice is doled out. Life is very, very good.
Tags: drugs, evangelical, nae, new-life-church, prostitution, religion, scandal, sex, ted-haggart
November 7th, 2006 at 8:29 am
What I find so horrible in this hypocritical man´s life, is to think about how much damage he has caused to gay people, especially gay young people in his church. Through years of homophobic preaching and lobbying he has damaged lives, forced people to suffer in their closets, and in all likelihood, this has led to some cases of suicide. If he counselled people who told him they were gay, he probably set about trying to convert them to heterosexuality and encouraged them to marry. One wonders how many wretchedly unhappy familes owe their origins to him.
Kristófer
ReykjavÃk
November 7th, 2006 at 10:03 am
I couldn’t agree with you more, Kristófer. He’s a hypocrite who’s hurt people’s lives, either by alienating and lying to them through his ministry or by proxy with the NAE’s connections to lawmakers. I may come across as a bit flippant in my post, but this sad excuse for a man makes me very angry.
November 28th, 2006 at 11:54 am
This couldn’t happen to a better person! Now that he’s in the ‘ex-gay’ mill, I hope he commits suicide after a long period of hating himself, feelign alientated, etc. That’s exactly what he did to gay kids willingly and knowingly! Die mother f##er Die!