Pastor Ted Haggards' Secret Gay Life

Pastor Ted Haggard 

Evangelical Pastor Ted Haggard, founder of his own mega church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, recently admitted to buying crystal meth and having sex with a prostitute named, Mike Jones. 

As a leader of the National Association of Evangelicals and a strong supporter of former president George W. Bush, Haggard spoke staunchly against gay marriage and homosexuality in general. However, on Larry King Live Haggard admitted to having sexual thoughts about men all through his college life -- and even now in his elder years. 

Haggard is currently 50 years old and has had sexual thoughts about men all his life, why would he assume that this is something that will automatically change? 

It appears that he's a gay man living undercover and maybe afraid to come out due to fear of society publicly condemning him. So he'd rather stay a liar than be open and honest? And lets just keep it real, as a pastor he's not lying to God because God already knows, but he is lying to his church followers, his family and most of all himself.

In one of Haggard's sermons he spoke of being able to obey God, while still having "fun on the side." A twenty year old church volunteer admitted that Haggard repeated this same statement to him about "having fun on the side." 

This is the same twenty year old that Mr. Haggard climbed into bed with, while masturbating next to him against the young man's wishes. As a result, the church paid the volunteer a settlement to stay quiet about the situation however, the volunteer is moving forward with a press conference regarding the matter on February 2nd.

The former pastor was recorded on video saying that most of his followers and friends, would rather "see him dead than gay."

Television host Larry King asked Haggard, if he considered  himself gay or straight? The pastor laughed nervously while taking Larry all around the mulberry bush before answering, in which he stated that he saw a couple of therapists that diagnosed him as "a heterosexual with homosexual complications." 

King asked Haggard's oldest son, "How is your relationship with your father now that the scandal has come out?"  

Haggard's son replied, "That before this whole thing happened, my father was always put on a pedestal" and that Haggard "never spent a lot of time with him" but when he did spend time with the family he always, "acted as if he was above everyone this is the most genuine I've seen him," stated the son. 

It would seem that Haggard's eldest son recognized his fathers fall from power, and actually enjoys his dad much more now that the scandal has "humbled" him. The fact that he witnessed his father make a mistake which normalized him, probably made it easier for the son to connect with him as he realized that dad isn't perfect either. 

Ted Haggard commented that he's, "Currently going through a process to change." But how can he change something that is naturally apart of him? Why should he have to change the fact that he's gay to please other people? He couldn't have been truly happy inside knowing that he was deceiving his family and church members. Hopefully, whatever the Haggard family decides to do moving forward will benefit their future happiness. 

How many more pastors could be in the closet?

2009 LA