Outchurched

Slate has a very interesting article ’bout Ted Haggard’s latest swindle, which includes this interesting bit:

Haggard wrote Landrock that supporters can mail checks directly to the Haggard family at their Scottsdale, Ariz., address, but that if contributors wish to make their donations tax deductible, as they very likely will, they can make out their checks to something called Families With a Mission and write on the check that it is designated for the Haggard family. Ninety percent of these funds will then be forwarded to Haggard, while the remaining 10 percent will cover Family With a Mission’s “administrative costs.”

So, supporting hypocrites who beg for money so they can maintain their elevated lifestyle is tax-deductible. Way to work it Ted!

It doesn’t stop there… Slate has also observed the following:

What the hell sort of charity is Families With a Mission? According to online records for the Colorado secretary of state, an organization bearing that name and the same address supplied below by Haggard was dissolved voluntarily in February of this year.

Oh, but wait… there’s MORE!

Savage and Coffman verified that the name and address of the man identified by Colorado’s secretary of state as “registered agent” for Families With a Mission match the name and address of a man named Paul Huberty, who is listed online as … a sex offender!

So, the “mission” of Families With a Mission seems to be laundering money through some sort of tax evasion scheme and getting into your kids’ pants.

Ted Haggard: Hypocrite, meth-head, “former gay,” racketeering scumbag, aka your contemporary “Man of God.”

Something tells me that Haggard will be doing his best to add more to the list soon.

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