Ted Haggard Hates Gray Areas

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A new HBO documentary promises to shed some saddening/maddening light on disgraced evangelist Ted Haggard. Premiering next Thursday, January 29, The Trials of Ted Haggard shows the exiled megachurch minister "shuffling from motel to motel, driving a moving truck, enrolling in a college psychology course, struggling as a door-to-door salesman and pondering his fate while laying in a motel bed in a white undershirt. 'At this stage in my life, I'm a loser -- a first-class loser,' he says." Ouch.

Lest ye forget, Haggard fell hard off his ultra-conservative pulpit in 2006 in a flurry of male prostitutes and methamphetamine. He promptly went to rehab for "sexual immorality" and afterward was declared "completely heterosexual" but recently admitted to still struggling with his sexuality. "Asked whether he could define his sexual identity, Haggard said: "The stereotypical boxes don't work for me. My story's got some gray areas in it. And, of course, I'm sad about that but it's the reality."

-- Jessanne Collins

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[Ryan]

Douche.