Disgraced evangelist Ted Haggard faces new allegations of sex abuse & drug use

[tulipsandroses]

Evangelist Ted Haggard, who was ex-communicated from his own church in 2006 following allegations he regularly paid for a male escort and was a methamphetamine addict, is facing new claims of misconduct from members of the church he founded in that scandal’s aftermath, according to the Denver Gazette.

Haggard, who once counted 14,000 worshippers among his flock at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs and often railed against homosexuality and drug use from the pulpit, is accused by two young men of continuing his predatory behavior and meth use at Saint James Church, a congregation he started in 2010.

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The individuals, one of whom was a minor when the alleged incidents took place in 2019, claim on tape that Haggard touched them inappropriately on several occasions at the church and during off-site activities.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/07/disgraced-evangelist-ted-haggard-faces-new-allegations-gay-sex-abuse-drug-use/

[EnergizedLib]

1. But tell me again

How two consenting adults and what they do in private is the problem.

[czarjak]

2. Spiritual advisor to G.W. Bush indeed. There'll ALWAYS be that. Buttercups.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Ted Haggard - just another big money evangelist