You can say amen to that. It has been two years since a prostitute named Mike Jones claimed that he had a three-year contract with the boosted drug Haggard. Haggard, now 52, finally admitted to buying methamphetamine and "sexual immorality." In a week he had resigned from his post and the pantheon of Evangelicals (Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart) killed by their own sins. Now, in his interview with the magazine for the first time since the scandal, talks about her ongoing struggle with Haggard's sexuality, his former church and its future plans. Why now? On the one hand, grows "The Trials of Ted Haggard," an HBO documentary wincingly open because the air on January 29. However, as can be felt in the movie and listen to the conversation, still feel very angry Haggard New Life Church, as well as himself.
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On that day at the end of 2006, when he finally fell waste Haggard felt exhausted and lost, and so did what was natural: he put his trust in the church. "I was disoriented, confused, depressed. Had I thrown my life away, and I had to rely on these men," says Newsweek. "I would have signed anything." Under the terms of his severance package and the process of "restoration", Haggard never have agreed to set foot in New Life in Colorado again, and go forever (even if the expulsion were raised after a little over a years). He took his family and his severance package of salary, about $ 140.000, and began what is known as Haggards lives in exile. They spent the next 18 months crossing Arizona to their two teenage children crammed into a U-Haul, staying in a series of cheap hotels and homes, "foreigners generally."
Cash and Christian mercy was in short supply, but at least one friend made sure to call ahead: Alexandra Pelosi. The Emmy-winning director (and President Nancy daughter) met Haggard in 2005 while filming "Friends of God," his tour of evangelical America. She says she first traveled to Arizona to ensure it was still OK and the filmmaker has just started shooting when she saw Ted makes a rack in his church is in a cheap motel. He was not compensated Pelosi is about 10 hours of image spread over several visits. "This film was stolen from Ted," she said. "I was there, I had a camera, that's all." Haggard said the film is "fair and even" and let her pull it. "This is how I worked in my life: I am inclined to say yes," he said.
Unfortunately, the others said nothing. Struggle to find work in the secular world, is addressed to hang on "hundreds, maybe thousands" of ads in a suburb of door handles, and when you zoom in to ask Pelosi to its success, the smile disappears from the Grand Canyon of Haggard. He did not get the same answer. In another scene, Haggard was confident on the road for his first job interview for a layman, the position of consultant at the University of Phoenix, adult education center. "If I Google, I have a job," said Pelosi. Apparently they are, because he hit there too. Finally, countries are walking Haggard insurance, a prelude to his current success of the sale of the company, the Mortgage Protection Group. Now, he says, that makes about $ 1,000 a week.
And yet, even if he tries to turn the other cheek, the whole Christian forgiveness to dodge him. He believes that New Life to throw him out when he needed it most. As the film says: "The church is said to hell." Haggard is now firmly believes himself too hard. "I do not understand why, when the criminal 'caught, sometimes things that do not admit," he says. "I wanted overrepent, and I think I did overrepent. My [resignation] letter to the church, I said I'm a cheat and a liar, but I had not lied about anything except remain silent, what was happening inside me."
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