While we don’t know what Navajo Presidential candidate Linda Lovejoy thinks about gay-marriage, we do know that Mike Jones, the hooker who brought down Evangelical leader, Ted Haggard (pictured), does not approve of Haggard’s Sunday sermon apology.
According to The Denver Post, Jones found Haggard’s letter to be a bit too mawkish. Further, he urges Haggard, with whom Jones says he had a three-year “working” affair, to come out as a homo.
If I was going to issue an apology, it would be a paragraph long. [Haggard] was definitely pulling the emotional strings for his followers… Ted, you need to be honest with yourself… If you’re a gay man, you’re a gay man.
As you know, Jones’ honesty has landed him in a bit of a dangerous position. He’s taken down one of the most powerful religious leaders in America, shattering the “dreams” of nearly 30 million Evangelicals by revealing Haggard’s allegedly true cocksucking, meth smoking colors. Not surprisingly, he’s received a few death threats.
Despite the hubub, Jones can’t help but feel that Haggard will end up on top, so to speak. The Denver Post reports:
The former escort predicted Haggard would disappear for a while, then emerge as a man who has been “cured” of homosexuality. Jones also believes Haggard will use the opportunity, write a book and make millions.
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Jones said he would visit the New Life Church if he was invited. “I’d love to go down and sit in on services and see how I’m received,” he said. “I would like them to see that I am a human being. What I feel sorry for is they still believe in him.”
We feel sorry that they still believe in him, too. Or, rather, that they believe his homosexuality’s a tool of the devil that Haggard can overcome through some good ol’ fashioned prayer. What we really feel badly about is that Haggard’s not using this opportunity to help alter Evangelical sexual ideology.
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Yes I agree with you, this person named Jones must be some sort of strange guy. I wonder how he was able to produce such a nice writing that could be not his own, in the same way as he accuses others.
Thank you for sharing this story with me !
Jason
What? the previous post makes no sense at all.
Ellen Barth
I am a woman married to a gay man for twenty years. I don’t attend church as a rule because I have problems with the institution and truthfully many of these pastors are just frustrated entertainers ( I would rather watch a movie.). In Wikepedia Ted is quoted as saying he was for civil unions between gays but did not endorse gay marriage. So his union with Jones must not have been civil? He didn’t marry a gay guy because the wife and kids would have been upset? There is a consistency in his inconsistency. He doesn’t want to marry a man but likes to keep one on the side or er back?
Be glad that one of your own got to influence a large group of evangelicals albeit secretly.I am hoping he is welcomed in man to man embrace in the gay community. Remember when Ted bashing that he is one of yours. Peace and out
Angel
Mike Jones would be welcome to attend New Life. I’m a member at New Life and he can be my family’s guest. I am truly saddened by Ted’s infidelity and betrayal of his family and church family. We are a loving congregation who would welcome anyone to attend. There are so many loving people at this church, it would amaze you guys who don’t seem to understand is that we are all just trying to be our best and follow Christ’s teachings. We don’t believe in Ted, we believe in Jesus and that is why we forgive Ted and miss him, but he can’t continue in his role ever. I hope that this situation will bring the homosexual and Christian communities together and realize that none of us is perfect and we are called to love each other as we do ourselves and love God with all our hearts, mind, and souls. Jesus is Lord!
Kevin
Angel, people like you caused this. People like you cause gay people to be in the closet. You people are responsible for a lot of suffering. You people are sick.
Angel
Kevin, I’m sorry you feel that way, but I think you are awesome. I’ve never hated gay people, I have gay family and friends. I just love the Lord and He loves you too. I don’t think you need to be in the closet at all. We can all get along if we just don’t hate each other. God bless you.
me
Angel,
I want to thank you for letting Kevin know you love him because i feel he needs more love in his life. Kevin, we all love you. Jesus love you and cares for you. What Jesus did on the cross was not a waste of time, not a waste, not to prove we are responsible for people suffering. He knew already what this world will become today, we have to ask for forgiveness. Live for Christ, not for man.
Peter LeCornu
Hi Angel,
Yes, it would be better if you got more healthy well-adjusted happy-to-be gay homosexuals in your congregation at New Life. Instead of the meth-using, self-hating compulsive liars and users of prostitutes.
Right now it is appears your ex leader is a pathological liar, hypocrite, whose understanding for the gay community once caused him to remark, concerning a gay pride parade… “Gay pride parade! That’s like a murderer’s pride parade.” So your church is full of people who feel acting on gay feelings, even in a loving way (as opposed to a compulsive meth-fueled way) is akin to murder. How does a rational person even grasp that among you people? My advice to you, is DON’T DRINK THE KOOLAID if they pass it out one day, telling you that God said to, and that you will be Raptured immediately. Jonestown and Colorado Springs have a lot in common.
Being gay is a sexual orientation. Christ doesn’t teach ANYTHING about homosexuals or homosexuality. Maybe Jesus just thought it was understood that being gay was natural for a percentage of the population, as it is!
It is the evangelical cult groups that have twisted a few Bible phrases, to fit their anti-gay agenda, that even think it is a sin. We are living in 2006, for goodness sake. We are no longer in the Middle Ages regarding human sexuality and the spectrum of completely normal and healthy human behaviors.
me
Peter…welcome to the real world, come back down to earth. To much meth will do this to you…you are Peter.
We love you man!
andreas mikhailowiscz
The trouble with you evangelihurls is that you have to demonize some group one way or another. In the past it used to be jews, blacks and even woman and gypsies…..gut now since it is not fashionable anymore to demonize jews and especially blacks or women…you have to pick on another vulnerable group….and what better group to pick than gays and lesbians.
Look frankly most of us billions of non evangelicals are sick of your homophobia, your bronze age faux science ( creationism), your pious hypocrisy. Those countries which have the highest quality of living are those secular countries that have embraced secular humanist ideals ( norway, sweden, danmark, holland, belgium, france, germany , italy, spain, etc…) , the countries with draconian primitive jurisprudence of amputations of arms and legs and cruel treatment of sexual minorities and any minorities for that matter are found in the islamist country which are rabidly puritanical and of course hypocritical to the umpteenth degree !
Stop being sex obsessed and genital obsessed… go get a life and leave other people’s sex life and bedroom alone…if you want to follow christ..go feed the poor, give water to the thirsty, care for the sick, visit the lonely and those in prison, clothe the naked ……..and above all sell all your worldly goods ( yes that multibillion dollar church bldings and real estate) and stop paying your mega pastors millions of dollar in salary and perks…..you charlatans . Remember how Jesus threw the money lenders and charlatans out of his Father’s temple.