Sacked sex-scandal pastor confesses: I am a liar
FIRST it was: “I never meet this man.” Then it was: “I bought drugs off him but I never used them, and I never had sex with him.” But by Sunday, it was time for confession.
Ted Haggard, former head of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals — the man with President George Bush’s ear — finally told all: he was a hypocrite and a liar. The overseers of the New Life Church in Colorado, which he founded, sacked him for “sexually immoral conduct”.
It was the most spectacular downfall of an evangelical leader since the Reverend Jim Bakker was embroiled in a sex and accounting scandal in 1987.
In a letter read out to the Sunday congregation at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Pastor Haggard said: “I am guilty of sexual immorality, and I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar.”….(continued in article)
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/11/06/1162661617824.html?from=top5
Let’s see now there’s Ted Haggard, Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart…..
