Colorado Springs, Colorado - Ted Haggard, the prominent Colorado evangelical leader and Bush spiritual advisor is accused of having sex with a male prostitute, admitted Friday that he received a massage. He talks to President Bush or his advisors every Monday.
Haggard denied a sexual relationship with an escort when he spoke briefly to reporters gathered outside his home, the Rocky Mountain News reported. The founder of the 14,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colo., was accused of paying a gay prostitute for sex.
Michael Forest Jones also claims that he obtained methamphetamine for the minister, while Haggard says he bought some once out of curiosity and threw it away.
“I was tempted. I bought it. But I never used it.”
Saying he could not continue to minister in the face of such accusations, Haggard, 50, placed himself of administrative leave at his church and resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals.
Conservatives are worried that the allegations may further depress “values voters” already angry about the Mark Foley revelations. “If the story is true, Ted’s a hypocrite of the worst kind,” Jeff Sharlet of Harper’s writes on his blog. “Then again, he’s also another victim of the very closet over which he publicly stands guard.”
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