Evangelical
leader says he bought meth
By CATHERINE TSAI,
Associated Press
The Lord has had us post
several articles concerning the infiltration of gay men and pedophiles into
Roman Catholic Seminaries which later became priests and bishops. At the time Evangelicals,
Fundamentalists and Pentecostals collectively rubbed their hands together with
glee and wagging their finger at these woes in the Roman Catholic Church as
this being a definitive sign of their sin and corruption, and not even being
Christian.
We could not do so because
such sin defaces Christ and puts him to open shame, and all who call upon the
name of the Lord despite their erroneous or corrupted beliefs are still members
of His body and as such when one suffers we all suffer.
At the time the word of the
Lord came that this infiltration of Gay men and pedophiles had occurred in
Evangelical fundamentalist and Pentecostal seminaries as well. And the Lord
spoke that the firestorm of the unveiling of these perverse and evil men would
rain upon the Fundamentalists and Evangelicals, and then upon the Pentecostals
and Charismatics.
We speak these things not
because we wish or call for these things to come to pass but that the Lord has
announced them beforehand. These things
are heartbreaking, these things shall stumble, and these things are a direct
result from these churches having abandoned the preaching of sin,
righteousness, and the judgment.
For having preached a judicial
salvation – devoid of one have a personal knowledge of God or personal relationship
with God. Because the man has confessed
to his purchasing meth from this gay man, and having a hotel he was staying in call in this male
gay prostitute (mentioned in a previous article) it is hard for him to declare
himself clean and pure of such things, and fit to continue in the ministry of a
church and as the head of a evangelical organization. The Evangelical and
fundamentalist church have not yet begun to see the sin and corruption that
they have allowed to grown in their midst in the last 30 years. We are in a
time of exposing. And the Lord shall indeed expose all that which has been done
under the cover of darkness in the church, evil and perverse things that the
church has cast a blind eye to all these years. God’s intent in these things is to bring those who would come to
Him. To bring them to a repentance, a cleansing, a separation, and a coming
unto His face.
Come and see!
COLORADO
SPRINGS, Colo. - The Rev. Ted Haggard said Friday he bought methamphetamine
and received a massage from a male prostitute.
(How did he know this?) But the influential
Christian evangelist insisted he threw the drugs away and never had sex with
the man.
Haggard,
who as president of the National Association of Evangelicals wielded influence on Capitol Hill and condemned
both gay marriage and homosexuality, resigned on Thursday after a Denver man
named Mike Jones claimed that he had many drug-fueled trysts with Haggard.
On Friday,
Haggard said that he received a massage from Jones after
being referred to him by a Denver hotel, and that he bought meth for himself from the man. These are admissions made by this preacher as to his
involvement with this man. And his purchasing meth for himself. Meth is not a entry level drug for first
time users it is very rugged and very dangerous stuff. – If a person is depressed there are many
things that they would use long before going for meth. This man was a wealthy
wealthy preacher probably pulling down a quarter million a year. This man as
the pastor of a large assembly as a perk had free medical care and could have
gotten through a doctor or two virtually any prescription medication he
wanted. So for such a man to go to a
hotel and have the hotel contact or recommend for a guest a drug dealer/gay
prostitute and then purchase meth from him –indicates here that this preacher
was already long familiar with such things and hiss conscience was so seared
that he found little of no offense in doing such things,
But Haggard
said he never had sex with Jones. (This in itself is
incredibly suspicious, because he claims to have only known this man as a drug
dealer, Instead of this preacher declaring he was not gay, or that he abhorred
or revolted by such a evil and perverted suggestion he declares that “he never
had sex with the man” Opening paragraph.) And as for the drugs, "I
was tempted, but I never used it,"(Depending on
the length of his hair, hair samples would prove or disprove this statement.)
the 50-year-old Haggard told reporters from his vehicle while leaving his
home with his wife and three of his five children. (One
has to be heart broken especially for his wife and five children.)
Jones,
49, denied selling meth to Haggard. "Never," he told MSNBC. Haggard
"met someone else that I had hooked him up with to buy it." (This
man is justifiably fearful of criminal action as to his being tagged as a drug
dealer – so he may or may not be lying. On the other hand if the preacher had
said I contacted this gay prostitute and later turned me on to a drug dealer it
would have been all the more of an admission to gay sex.)
Jones
also scoffed at the idea that a hotel would have sent Haggard to him. "No
concierge in Denver would have referred me," he said. He said he had
advertised himself as an escort only in gay publications or on gay Web sites.
(This is a pretty solid statement, the idea of any hotel connecting their
patronage to gay prostitutes or to drug dealers dealing meth is a outrageous
idea onless this preacher was staying at a flea bag hotel known for this sort
of thing. Hotel cameras and hotel phone records would be able to tell the tale
here establishing when this preacher made contact , how long they talked, when
the man showed up and when he left.
Jones did not
immediately return calls from The Associated Press on Friday.
In
addition to resigning his post at the NAE, which claims 30 million members,
Haggard stepped aside as leader of his 14,000-member New Life Church pending a
church investigation. In a TV interview this week, he said: "I never had a gay relationship with anybody, and I'm
steady with my wife, I'm faithful to my wife."
(Here now he revised his words but the term “gay
relationship” is very troubling. This is not
the words that any preacher that is ardently against homosexual activities
would EVER use. The next words as damning as well “I am steady with my wife.”
The phrase normally used is my marriage is steady. “I’m faithful to my wife.” –
Note here he did not say he loved his wife
and his children and could never sin against them in such a way. – the
absence of any mention of these things is very telling.
In Denver,
where Jones said his encounters with Haggard took place, police said in a news
release they planned to contact the people involved for information on
whether a crime was committed. (The crime would
be a hotel dealing drugs and the accuser dealing drugs. – But here again is a
tidbit how often did this Pastor from Colorado Springs go to Denver and stay at
this and other hotels alone, and what business was he supposedly on?) The
statement did not say whether an investigation was under way, and police
spokeswoman Virginia Quinones declined to elaborate.
Lynn Kimbrough,
a spokeswoman for the (Denver) district
attorney's office, said that a public admission
(Presumably by Jones) isn't enough by itself to bring a case, but
that charges will be filed if criminal conduct can be proved.
Jones
claims Haggard paid him for sex nearly every month for three years until
August. (This would entail a whole lot of visits and hotel stays to Denver) He
said Haggard identified himself as "Art." (This
may be verifiable as to what name this preacher registered himself under.) Jones
said that he learned who Haggard really was when he saw the evangelical leader
on television. (The circumstances of this preacher being on TV
locally are in relation to the ballot initiative and the ad campaign no doubt
began in September. So that the meth purchase and whatever went on here all
ceased after August. The idea that this man was able to recognize this preacher
implies more than 50 or 100 dollars being passed through a chained hotel door
and the meth being handed back. We should also mention here that if there would
have been a continued relationship here that this man Jones should have known
some measure of details of this preachers home life.
Jones
said he went public with the allegations because Haggard has supported a
measure on Tuesday's ballot that would amend the state constitution to ban gay
marriage. Jones said he was also angry that Haggard in public condemned gay
sex.
Haggard, who
had been president of the NAE since 2003, has participated in conservative
Christian leaders' conference calls with White House staffers and lobbied
members of Congress last year on
The NAE's
executive committee issued a statement Friday praising Haggard's service but
saying "it is especially serious when a pastor and prominent Christian
leader deliberately violates God's standards of
conduct."
"Due to
the seriousness of Rev. Haggard's misconduct while in the leadership roles he
held, we anticipate that an extended period of recovery will be
appropriate," This is an incredibly damning
statement from the NAF organization saying that they will continue to let him
minister in their body -- That all of
this in their estimation only requires a recovery period, and then he will be
good to go.
Corwin Smidt, a
political scientist at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., and director of
the Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics there, said that Haggard's
role with the association gave him some political
clout, but that the group's focus is more
on religion than political activism. Here now we find out the real reason in this evangelical
groups desire to keep this man regardless of his sin. Haggard was the point man
for them in political activism and for them to dump him is to lose all his hard
earned political contacts – and this demonstrates that much the opposite of
what is stated here is the truth – these men are concerned far more with their
political activist goals than with Christ and the gospel. – As we have clearly
stated elsewhere concerning political activism being ungodly and in direct
disobedience to the command of Christ, this is all about earthly and world
power, and the willingness of religious pharisaical men to deal with the devil
to gain it.
"It isn't
necessarily that all evangelicals are paying close attention to what he's
saying and doing, but he is an important leader," (He still is – because of his contacts with the world and the
devil and the group can not afford to lose the clout this man represents.)
Schmidt said.
James Dobson,
head of Focus on the Family, an influential conservative Christian ministry
based in Colorado Springs, said he was "heartsick" over the
allegations. He described Haggard as his close friend and colleague. (We see that Doctor James Dobson here is not “exercised”
or “outraged” as he has been by gay activist organizations or by the
doings of liberal congressmen who he threatened to have voted out. This is
extremely instructive to Dobson’s “Corrupt” and “Unbiblical” evangelical views
concerning sin in the camp and
sin in his midst. Here we read he is only “heartsick”
and speaking of “a friend and
colleague.” Compare this with Paul
when he found out a man married to his mother had married with the blessing of
the Corinthian elders. Compare this with Paul when he found Peter and the
apostles and elders of the whole church in error over circumcision, compare
this with Paul finding false teachers and false apostles in their midst and
naming names and casting them out of their midst. – In both the old and new covenant sin in the midst of the church
was no light matter and especially when it involved shepherds of the flock
watchmen and would be prophets. How is this different that Jimmy Swaggart or
James Baker from PLT? – the difference is neither Swaggart nor baker were
political activists, and I dare say if they had been they would have been
propped up and still been in power today. )
Aaron Stern,
another pastor at New Life, told Associated Press Television News on Friday
that Haggard is a man of integrity (This is again amazing stuff because of what Haggard has
already confessed to.) and that church members don't know whether to
believe the allegations.
Stern said he
has been telling church members seeking his advice: "People do things we
don't expect them to do, but in the midst of all of that our God is faithful,
our God is strong."
Jones
took a lie-detector test Friday, and his answers to questions about whether he
had sexual contact with Haggard "indicated deception,"
(Lie detectors is a misnomer it is a stress detector. These have
been dropped by law enforcement, stress detector evidence is inadmissible in
court because of its great unreliability. -- Hopefully the police will fully
investigate – and be able to lay all of bare before the church.) said
John Kresnick, who administered the test free at the request of a Denver radio
station. Jones told reporters
afterward: "I am confused why I failed that, other than the fact that I'm
totally exhausted." (I have little doubt this man’s soul
is vexed with not only his admitted sin before God, but his potential in going
to jail and serving hard time over this as well. At the time of the lie detector session this man had more to lose
that the preacher.)
In late breaking news on Sunday . .
.
The Overseeing Board of Haggard’s Church took
strong action Saturday.
"Our investigation and Pastor Haggard's public statements have
proven without a doubt that he has committed sexually immoral conduct," the
independent board said in a statement. And they voted to dismiss Him. Haggard was "informed of this
decision," the statement said, and he "agreed as well that he should
be dismissed."