Disgraced Pastor Ted Haggard Faces New Allegations Of Meth Use And Gay Sexual Misconduct At Another Church

Posted July 31, 2022 by Zach with 3 comments

Remember Pastor Ted Haggard? (Who could forget that now classic 2006 interview above.) There have been so many anti-gay religious psychopaths caught up in drug and butt fucking gay sex scandals over the years, it took me a minute to remember what Ted Haggard did (ICYMI: he hired a male hooker for gay sex and meth). Alas, he’s at it again, via RNS:

Former Colorado megachurch pastor Ted Haggard, who fell from grace in 2006 after a gay sex-and-drug scandal, is now facing some of the same allegations at another church.

Haggard, 66, is being accused of using methamphetamine and behaving inappropriately with young men at St. James Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a church he founded in 2010, The Denver Gazette reported.

A onetime president of the National Association of Evangelicals, Haggard resigned from New Life Church in Colorado Springs in the wake of a scandal involving a Denver male prostitute. Haggard admitted at the time that he bought methamphetamine and paid the prostitute for massages. Later, it also emerged he’d had an inappropriate relationship with a young man at the megachurch he founded.

The most recent allegations were made by Kirk “Seth” Sethman, who was ordained as a minister by St. James Church in 2012. Sethman recorded the statements of two young adult men who said Haggard touched them inappropriately on several occasions at the church. One of them was a minor at the time the touching began in 2019.

Sethman said he first approached church elders with allegations about Haggard in 2020.

St. James has declined in membership in recent years and earlier this year sold its building. Haggard is still head pastor but has moved the church’s services and study sessions to his home and is now calling his new congregation the Storyhouse Church.

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I had no idea he started a new church, but then again, of course he did. He’s undoubtedly been using it as a cover for his meth use and rampant gay sex for the last decade.