Counselling for ‘gay sex’ pastor

Posted: 01 Mar 2007 @ 00:00

by Rachel Harden

A MARRIED Evangelical minister in the US, who resigned last year over allegations of gay sex, has announced that he is “completely heterosexual” after undergoing three weeks of intense counselling

The Revd Ted Haggard, former head of the National Association of Evangelicals, and Pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado, which has about 14,000 members, made the announcement to his church earlier this month.

Mr Haggard, who has always denied having gay sex with a ...

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