Ethics

Ted Haggard: Don't Call It a Comeback

By Ed Brayton

The resurrection of Ted Haggard has begun. Sure it took more than three days, but it has now commenced with the public announcement that he's blaming it all on an unspecified sexual incident with an unnamed person when he was 7 and his adoption of the "I'm a much stronger Christian now" position.

Haggard told the congregation that a sexual incident with a man when he was 7 years old may be related to the scandal involving a male prostitute and crystal meth use that cost him his job two years ago.

"My dad was pretty successful," Haggard said. "He had a lot of workers. One of those workers had a sexual experience with me. I was 7 years old."

Haggard said that incident stayed with him throughout his life.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on November 15, 2008 (boomark / email).