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November 04, 2006 05:32 PM UTC

Ted Who?

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  • by: Colorado Pols

Ted Haggard? At the White House? Weekly conference calls with high-level staff? No, the Rocky Mountain News reports from Washington, you’re thinking of somebody else. They’ve never heard of this guy.

Well, maybe once or twice he was there, like a tourist or something.

He made frequent visits to the White House and was included in a select group of religious leaders briefed on the administration’s agenda during a weekly teleconference with White House staff, a session meant to “feel the evangelical pulse,” he’s said.

“We have direct access (to the White House),” Haggard told a Wall Street Journal reporter shortly before the last presidential election, adding that he could take a concern to the president through staff and get a response within 24 hours.

Asked Friday about the Haggard controversy, White House spokesman Tony Fratto downplayed the pastor’s connections to the Bush administration.

“He had been on a couple of (conference) calls but was not a weekly participant in those calls,” Fratto said, adding that Haggard had been to the White House “one or two times.”

“But there have been a lot of people who come to the White House,” Fratto said.

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  4. that if W. (or anybody in the white house) was a good christian, he would say that he knows Ted and will pray for him and offer help to him. Sadly, the neo-cons are not ppl who love the sinner, but not the sin. Instead, they seek to control in the same fashion that Shia’s do in Iran.

    The last good christian in the white house was quite probably Jimmy Carter. I wonder how long before true christians realize that?

    1. Americans are forgiving people, but one has to admit error.  Bush could be rallying his (suckered) Christian base by addressing this publicly; shocked, pray for him, yada yada, and vote R on Tuesday.

  5. I wonder if anyone will follow up on local report that the GOP CD5 “values” candidate Doug Lameborn acted as Ted Haggart and New Life’s attorney? 

    1. lawyers represent all sorts of characters, some reputable and some unsavory…..this is making me very uncomfortable defending Doug Lamborn, but we can’t tar him with whatever his client may, or may not, have done. 

    2. real estate and business law since 1987.  He’s been in the legislature 12 years, so he’s practiced law full-time for a maximum of 7 years and probably part-time during the remaining 12 years.

      A part-time real estate and business lawyer embroiled in a sleazy congressional campaign isn’t what Haggart needs.

      I’m in no position to know anything about Haggart and Lamborn’s professional relationship, but it’s likely that Lamborn can’t ethically represent Haggart any longer, since Haggart’s interests appear to be in conflict with those of his church and the organization from which the just resigned.

      For Haggart’s sake — and his family’s — I hope the man has retained another lawyer.  He seems to need one.

    3. Someone should investigate this story in the Denver Post – http://www.denverpos…

      According to the Denver Post, ten years ago similar allegations were made against Haggard.  According to Mike Litwinn’s story in CD5 today, Lamborn would have likely represented Haggard ten years ago.  Lamborn might know more about other allegations and issues stemming from his work with Haggard over the past ten years.

      This could potentially be devastating for Lamborn.

  6. … Haggard has angered some religious conservatives for urging Christians to protect Muslims in the days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and more recently for urging missionary outreach to Muslims, but not to win converts or force Christianity on them.

    Last summer, he joined an eclectic group of 27 religious leaders who ruffled the White House with a statement published in newspaper advertisements urging the government to “abolish torture now – without exception” in dealings with prisoners, including those suspected of terrorist activity.

    In fact, Haggard has argued almost as frequently for freedom from government intervention as he has freedom of religion. He was one of the few religious conservatives to endorse a 2003 Supreme Court decision striking down Texas’ anti-sodomy law on privacy grounds.

    In a 2004 interview with the Rocky Mountain News, Haggard told the story of meeting with President Bush and a half-dozen other evangelicals and using the occasion to argue against the extension of steel tariffs.

    “Your responsibility is the good of the people, and free trade is the way we get cheaper steel,” he recounted telling the president during the session.

    The taxes were dropped soon after the meeting.

    Haggard’s recent efforts promoted through the NAE a “broad biblical agenda” that included improving health care, ending racism and addressing global warming, which he recently declared should be an evangelical priority.

    Like the White House, however, Haggard seeks to find environmental solutions through a free-market approach rather than through tight government controls or taxes on emissions of greenhouse gases.

    Although the association’s board approved some broad goals for social activism earlier this year, many Christian conservatives have criticized the move for going beyond the “values” issues that have traditionally been the political focus of the community.

    (from the same Rocky story)

  7. What Ted Haggard has done is a personal issue.  He’s not running for office.  Instead of gloating about this, we should have some sympathy for his family and his friends and flock who trusted him.  He obviously duped many, many people.  Why is this news?

    He was in leadership in a Christian organization.  Does that mean that all of those Christians enabled him to do horrible things?  He is responsible for his actions, not those who trusted him.

    I don’t get the buzz this guy has created.  Who cares what he did other than those who were decieved and his poor family.

    1. And the reason I and thousands of other people are intrigued by this story is that this guy HURT people.  He preached against gays, drugs, etc. while having gay sex and snorting meth at the same time.  He stereotyped people who were just trying to live their lives.  You don’t think that’s news?  Here is a guy who apprently had a hot line to the President, spearheaded anti-gay rights legislation and regularly told his huge flock that to think any way different than he did was a sin.  This guy deserves every little bit of scorn and humiliation that will be soon coming his way.  Call it gloating if you want, but I like nothing better than to see another self-important, self righteous, smug jerk exposed for being what he is.  I do feel very badly for his family, who I’m sure are reeling.

    2. Why is the word and definition of the word “hypocrite” apparently lacking in some blogger’s dictionaires?

      It’s the hypocrisy, and I won’t call you anything negative.

  8. What they don’t practice the very values they claim to embrace? where is the compassion among the conservatives, can they not forgive, what about redemption, what kind of example are you setting for the kiddies?

    Meanwhile back at the ranch there are 30 million confused sheep.

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