Will the Hypocrisy never end at New Life Church???

New Life pastor: Church will recover from new sex claims against disgraced Ted Haggard




COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Associated Press) -- New Life Church will recover from new allegations in the 2-year-old sex scandal that brought down founder Ted Haggard, its pastor said Sunday.

Brady Boyd encouraged his Colorado Springs congregation and reminded them of their "holy tenacity," two days after revelations that a male church volunteer reported having a sexual relationship with Haggard.

It's the second such claim against Haggard. In late 2006, a male prostitute in Denver said he had a three-year cash-for-sex relationship with the former New Life pastor.

"I'm sorry that this wound has been reopened for many of you," Boyd told the congregation Sunday. "One day we may have a little scar tissue, but the wounds will not define us."

Haggard had confessed to undisclosed "sexual immorality" after the earlier allegations, left New Life and resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals. He has declined to comment on the new claim.

On Friday, Boyd said church officials had learned of the second set of claims against Haggard in late 2006, shortly after the male prostitute made his allegations.

Boyd said an "overwhelming pool of evidence" pointed to an "inappropriate, consensual sexual relationship" between Haggard and the male volunteer for an extended period of time.

Boyd said that under a legal settlement the church reached with the man in 2007, neither side was to discuss the matter publicly. He said he went public only after learning the man had talked to a local television station.

KRDO-TV reported that the man gave the station an audio recording of his conversations with Haggard. In them, Haggard calls the relationship "inappropriate" and asks for forgiveness, the station said.

Boyd said the settlement paid the man for counseling and college. He said the money came from insurance, not member's contributions.

Church officials said Boyd would not comment Sunday beyond his remarks to the congregation.

New Life members and leaders said the latest public disclosures were no surprise.

In early 2007, the church disclosed that an investigation uncovered evidence that Haggard engaged in "sordid conversation" and "improper relationships" _ but didn't go into detail.

"I don't think the people in the church are surprised," said Wanda Moore, who works in pastoral care for women at New Life. "They're disappointed and they're hurt."

But Jessica Sheasby, an associate child pastor for New Life, said church members she has spoken to have been "very upbeat" since the new disclosures.

"I've actually heard a lot of hope, because they know that Pastor Brady is one that protects us and takes care of us," she said.

Are your kids being deprived because the Religious Right declares their hero's "unacceptable"?

Religious extremists have decided that the Harry Potter books are not acceptable for children because they have a Homosexual (gay) character in them. Isn’t that rich! A fiction sequence of novels has been determined to be hazardous to children by the right wing Religious Right.

I find this very interesting as well as extremely revealing. First of all the books are fiction. None of the characters in the books are real. They don’t exist! Isn’t it a bit crazy to decide that something that is fictional isn’t acceptable? That’s like saying that anything that is improvable is fictional and therefore not acceptable. What does that say about the bible?

Isn’t it interesting that instead of cleaning up the messes they have within their organization with preachers, pastors, and others in positions of power and those who have access to the very children they are so worried about they find it necessary to attack a fictional character? Much like Jerry Farewells attack on Tinky Winky, the entire saga appears to be just another attempt to play with the minds of others.

They didn’t approve of the Harry Potter series to begin with because of the “mystical” aspects of the document. Compared to what? The bible?

I think the entire thing is ridiculous! Children need a bit of magic in their childhood. It’s good for the creative mind. It’s good for the “I want to understand” inquisitive maturity of their being. It also develops their ability to decipher reality from fiction…. AHHHH there’s the rub… If they develop that capability God knows what will happen… They won’t believe all the crap these hypocrites want to pump into their minds. Well that part of the mystery is solved but what other reasons would they have for attacking a Fictional Character?

I heard on spokesman for the Religious Wrong saying that kids would say that they needed to try this Gay thing out because they read it in Harry Potter. Can you imagine saying “I think I’ll try being gay” based on a fictional character? If your kids are that easily manipulated you have more problems than them “trying gay”! Talk about Paranoia! They are more likely to try “suicide bomber” based on reality!

By the way, I heard there are rumors that Burt and Ernie, Peppermint Pattie, & Bugs Bunny were all gay. At least these zealots don’t have to worry about them having abortions right?

Good Riddance Jerry! You’ll Be Remembered for the Hateful Man you were!

I have been hearing all the revisionist bull shit on TV about what kind of person Jerry Falwell was. Where were these people during the late 80’s early 90’s? Jerry Falwell is the face, the very image of Homophobia! This man prior to the 80’s hated Blacks and tried to use his pulpit to justify slavery, and fought the civil rights movement until forced to repent later in his life.

That is when he decided to direct his hatred toward the Gay and Lesbian community. During the beginning of the AIDS crisis Jerry states such vile assessments as “AIDS is god’s wrath on the Gay community for their sinful lifestyle.” Of course this proved to be totally ridiculous as many Heterosexuals became ill with this dreaded disease. He was Regan’s confidant on many issues including the AIDS crisis which is why of course Regan failed to do anything to address the crisis. Jerry had convinced Regan that AIDS was a Gay disease sent by God and after all, why would we want to do anything to stop the handy work of a loving god who according to Falwell had inflicted such misery on the sinful Gay community!

Jerry was a man of Lucifer! He was no man of god! His life’s work was dedicated to causing misery and mayhem. Look at the Bakers and what Jerry did to them.
Jimmy & Tammy Fay Baker spoke last night about what Jerry did to the PTL club and how he wrenched it from their hands. When the Bakers decided they wanted to take the operation of the PTL back from Falwell he denied them. He decided they were unfit to operate it. Imagine Jerry Falwell making such a determination. OUTRAGOUS!!!

Another of his many notable blunders was 9-11. He proclaimed to the world that the reason the USA was struck on 9-11 was because they were accepting of Homosexuals. The United States was being punished by God for their acceptance and inclusiveness of the “Homosexual Lifestyle”. All of which the Republican Party accepted as some revelation from god leading George Bush to seek Constitutional Amendments adding hate to the US constitution.

He along with his partners in crime, Pat Robertson, Donald Wildmon, & James Dobson made millions of dollars on the backs of the Gay and Lesbian community. Jerry Falwell was the ring leader as he started the “Moral Majority” which resulted in Dobson’s “Focus on the Family”, Donald Wildmon’s “American Family Association” both of which have blossomed into harbors of hate for the religious right and further attacks on the Gay and Lesbian Community. Billions and Billions of dollars have been made by these people preaching pure hate against one segment of mankind. All will be remembered for their Hate as they pass from this life to the eternal one.

Yes, we will remember!

Excuse me D.C. Mad-Damn

Yes I know it’s mis-spelled for some but for me and the DC Madam it is exactly correct in spelling.

My question is…. “why is it that when Clinton had sex with Lewinsky which was totally legal we had to know all the details and it was the basis of what lead to impeachment hearings; yet here we have a bunch of lawless behavior of government officials who were hiring prostitutes which is against the law and the media decides we really don’t need to hear about it or who the criminals are”?

Well they are dead wrong! I want to know every one of their names! I want the media to smear them all over the media and tell us all about their vile behavior! I want the Dirt!!!!

What is it that we allow the media to tell us what we “need to know”? Since when have we allowed them to dictate to us what is important for us to know?

Does anyone else find it amusing that we can have a bunch of our elected officials committing crimes on the streets of DC and between themselves and the media they have managed to keep it under wraps? This is disgusting in my estimation. But off course if it were Bill Clinton we would have to be taken trough all the dirty details even when it was of no concern to us what so ever.

For those of you that watched 20/20 or Reliable Sources I hope you find this attitude of the media as despicable as I do.

The Iraq war is a crime committed by the highest office in the land and we still haven’t delved into prosecution of that criminal activity so I guess we have just decided that it is appropriate to allow all our criminal leaders continue with criminal activities and ignore the whole damn corrupt pile of shit!
I think I’m feeling nauseous! Our ethics and values in this nation have gone to hell, we are much more worried about homosexuals and the “sanctity of marriage” because we can target a small segment of our community with that hate motivated witch hunt while we allow the villains in DC who we put in office to manage our country are out doddering prostitutes more than likely on our dime. Family Values at the helm!!!