Disgraced pastor returns, as Christian businessman

[laststeamtrain]

Disgraced pastor returns, as Christian businessman



Earlier this month, a guest took the pulpit at Open Bible Fellowship in Morrison, Ill., a 350-member church surrounded by cornfields. The speaker was an insurance salesman from Colorado named Ted Haggard.

The former superstar pastor, disgraced two years ago in a sex-and-drugs scandal, had returned — this time as a Christian businessman preaching a message that was equal parts contrition and defiance. Haggard linked his fall to being molested in second grade and apologized again.

His two sermons were posted, fleetingly, on Haggard's Web site under one word: "Alive!"

While his exact plans remain unclear, Haggard is unmistakably making himself a public figure again, nine months after his former church said he walked away from an oversight process meant to restore him...http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081123/ap_on_re_us/rel_haggard_returns

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[Hawkeye-X]

1. I'm sure he's selling insurance... for... more....

METH!

[hlthe2b]

2. These guys are truly unbelievable...

Sheesh...I'm thinking they took the "sucker born everyday" philosophy (wrongly attributed to PT Barnum) way to heart....

[ColbertWatcher]

3. I can't believe I'm the first to ask this: what's the difference? n/t

[laststeamtrain]

4. "What's the difference?" Between Christian & Businessman?

Zero, Zilch, Nada.

No difference.

Tax them out of existence.

If they had to pay taxes the scam wouldn't work. They'd move on to financial services or war profiteering. Or something more honestly dishonest.

[TWiley]

9. Secular Business Men pay taxes, and Christians do not

Secular Business provides jobs and help to finance government expense. They provide a social benifit. Christians only take.

[murielm99]

5. Can you post this in the Illinois forum?

Morrison is not far from me. I wonder what the locals and other Illinois residents think about this.

My take: :puke:

[laststeamtrain]

7. I could but why don't you go ahead & do it.

:hi:

[murielm99]

8. Okay. Thanks. I will.

I wanted to be courteous.

[earth mom]

6. More like snake oil salesman.

:puke:

[timtom]

10. Actually, for "Supernatural" fans,

he looks -- not like a demon-possessed man -- but a demon.