Open Snark Season on Ted Haggard
by: Rev. DanI was getting sick of Ted Haggard stories and think his accuser is a scumbag out to milk his encounters with Haggard for money… but yet again, it’s open snark season on Ted Haggard ’cause Haggard just won’t shut the fuck up and go away:
If you haven’t had enough of the Haggard/New Life Church saga, this week KRDO Channel 13 in Colorado Springs aired a story about a letter that Haggard sent to consumer reporter Tak Landrock, letting him know of the Haggard family plans to move into the Phoenix Dream Center to minister to ex-cons, recovering alcoholics, drug addicts, prostitutes, and “other broken people,” Haggard writes. “I identify.”
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In what is clearly a fundraising letter, Haggard indicated, “we need to raise our own support.” However, he doesn’t mention that when he left the church, New Life Church leaders agreed to pay his salary through 2007 - estimated at about $138,000 annually.
In addition, as Colorado Confidential reported earlier this month, El Paso County Assessor property records show that the Haggard’s still own their 5-bedroom, 3-bath home in Colorado Springs. Sitting on 5.1 acres, its current market value is listed at $715,051.
From Haggard’s Fundraising letter:
It looks as though it will take two years for us to have adequate earning power again, so we are looking for people who will help us monthly for two years. During that time we will continue as full time students, and then, when I graduate, we won’t need outside support any longer.
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Thank you so much. We feel our move into the Dream Center is the next step God would have us take. Any help we can get with this will be greatly appreciated and, I believe, rewarded in heaven.
Scuuuuuuuuuumbag!
“We’re looking for people to support us ’cause we’re too proud to y’know… GET JOBS.” …let alone the fact that he’s making fat bank ’til the end of the year.
“Adequate earning power” clearly means another six-figure pastor position. Something he probably couldn’t get if he admitted he was actually… you know… gay.
Still, the fact is that gays are statistically above-average earners so who knows what he could pull off if he went onto the job market.
This is the thing that still makes my skin crawl:
… that misguided view that a pastor is a special species in God’s eyes. So much so that you get additional heavenly ROI if you give him money.