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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyFebruary 9th, 2009
Michelangelo Signorile apparently had another blockbuster program last Friday:
A Colorado Springs bail bondsman and sometime bounty hunter who has been investigating New Life Church and Ted Haggard for several years appeared on my show late on Friday and told me that he now has information on ten more cases of sexual misconduct on the part of Ted Haggard and that three of these involve minors. He also said that New Life Church had suppressed from the media an earlier case of a pastor at the church (which has many pastors under the senior pastor) who was convicted of sexual assault against a child under the age of 15 and got off easy with help from the church, only to later have his probation revoked. The convicted pastor then illegally left the country, he said, and he speculates that New Life Church may have helped him do so.
Bobby Brown, reading from what he said was a detective’s affidavit, told me that the pastor, Stephen Evans, was convicted in 1999 of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy and admitted to sexual contact with his own 14-year-old son and his own 15-year-old daughter, in a case that Brown says was somehow kept out of the media and has not been reported until now. Brown says that with the help and backing of New Life Church, Evans served no jail time at all, cutting a plea deal in which he’d agree to a “restoration” at the church – yes, just like the one that Ted Haggard went through to supposedly make him straight! – while serving five years on probation. It is likely that Ted Haggard, as senior pastor at the time, oversaw Evans’ restoration.
It appears that in 2001, Evans’ probation was revoked and he may have skipped the country. He’s believed to be in London now.
Brown also confirms that Christopher Beard, the counselor at New Life Church’s 24/7 program which Grant Haas spoke of, left the church due to sexual misconduct shortly after Haggard’s fall.
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Ben in Oakland
February 9th, 2009
Two years ago, a freind of mine sent me to this link in The Stranger. It makes VERY interesting reading.
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=100742
Emily K
February 9th, 2009
Classy. The author makes some good points, but this stuff is only “correct” if we are to believe that all gay men (or even most of them) are obsessed with ripped, porn-star bodies and looking at artwork that implies sexual acts between men are about to take place, or that every closeted person in the congregation looks and acts like a “twink.”
And in light of the law enforcement influence the church seems to have, i hope the opposite turns out to be true and people are prosecuted.
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