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My heart go out to him. He is a good man. Its just that there are many "American" religious extremist out there. Like they said. The higher you go; the harder you fall.

Ok, so he is gay. Who cares? A religion that not only says it's wrong to be who you are, but that attempts to supress who you are, is truly evil.
He lied, we all do, or we all have at some point. I understand it's complicated due to the fact that he was such a big public figure, but let's get real, being human means messing up, acknowledgeing it, and taking the necessary steps to move on and forgive yourself.

Only in america ..

If this guy would renounce his RELIGION instead of his sexual ORIENTATION, I'd hire him in a heartbeat.

I am a christian… and i think is wrong what they did to him.. is not christian like, even tho what he did, but people that called themselves christian are going over the top, over what real christianity is about.

You dont throw a family out on the streets just because of his mistake, and church is not a bussiness.. everyone makes mistakes and nobody is perfect.

People are being cruel, and does people are not even worthy to call themselves christian, because if your are real christian you forgive and try to understand!

Maybe in fairytale land, but in reality this is religion at its core. Politics, greed, and nothing else.

All religions are successful sects and there's nothing to be proud of being part of a sectarian organization… Indoctrination is a self inflicted (sometimes initiated by surrounding adults when you're young) brain cancer propagated by sects and religions… It's a crime against humanity to let them teach all their ridiculous unproven beliefs like it's the absolute truth… Gullible people destroy their life and the life of those surrounding them because we (the skeptics) don't want to diminish personal freedom… The thing is that freedom should end when responsibility begins…

I DONT BELIEVE WHAT TED HAGGARD DID WAS RIGHT ,BUT HE IS HUMAN AND WHO ARE WE TO JUDGE HIM.THE REACTION OF THE CHURCH I FEEL WAS TOO EXTREME AND IM SO GLAD THAT GOD IS NOT LIKE MAN. THE CHILDREN AND THE WIFE DID NOTHING WRONG BUT THE CHURCH DIDNT TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION. IT IS NOT LOVE TO FORCE A MAN AND INNOCENT CHILDREN OUT OF A CITY! WHERE IS THE LOVE? I DONT AGREE WITH WHAT HE DID ,BUT HE REPENTED! ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE HIM BUT CAUSING HIS WIFE AND KIDS TO BE HOMELESS IS IN MY OPINION WRONG!HE THAT IS SPIRITUAL SHOULD RESTORE.

IT IS NOT A CRIME TO BE GAY!!!!

If he is gay he should come out and be proud of who he is. It is sad that now he feels like a second rate citizen. The religion he preaches says that being gay is evil. This way of thinking is disgusting and should not be tolerated in a modern westernised country like the US. It is like saying being black or being Jewish is evil, millions of people in history have died to stop this kind of thinking.

Ted Haggart you should stand up for who you are and be proud of who you are. The only question you should ask yourself is why you still believe in the religion you preach.

I find my strength of believing in God comes from the many other people that have been indoctrinated the same as I have , , , by asking them if they to believe as I do, They confirm to me that they do. By using Logic this means our belief must be true, We cant all be wrong! – Its sad to think about all the People out their that follow this reasoning. The truth is > Teaching Religion = Traumatizing your child for life. Destroying their self-esteem. Teaching simple human nature is sinful and will surly end you up in a Fiery Lake for all time. Matthew 5:28/5:29 – Teaching Faith Retards the Brain. To except something as truth with out evidence or reason, sets your child up to be easy Prey to swindlers, conmen, and unscrupulous opportunist of all sorts.

man i actually feel bad for the guy now,

I am not amazed by his actions but by the surprise of the parishioners and media. The leaders of the evangelical church historically have been lairs, cheaters, and hypocrites. From Aimee Semple McPherson in the 1930's to Ted Haggard, Tony Alamo, Jim Bakker, Jimmie Swaggart, John Paulk, the list goes on and on and on the Christians have been deceived. The evangelical church goers are sheep led by wolves. To think this power of closed minded, bigoted hatred is all in the name of god and led by some of the most pathetic men and women of our time.

Ask the question next time they ask for money, is my pastor living like Jesus? has he shed is earthly possessions? has he taken a vow of poverty? or is he driving his Cadillac to a giant mega church to ask for more money in the name of Jesus. Or better yet ask yourself why am I being asked to pay for gods love.

Please don't yell… or then, please turn off your "CAPS LOCK" in case you don't know that writing in caps is considered as "yelling" throughout the Net.

BTW, lying repeatedly causes distrust, and maintaining in place a person who is not trustworthy can only brings on more distrust in their organization, or faith group.

The bottom line is : you can't spread "faith" if you ain't trustworthy, or ain't "believed to be" trustworthy.

Trust me ;^)

Dear Bro. Ted,

I thank God for your broken spirit and contrite heart. I have experienced what you are going through. Not as a Pastor but, just as a man of God with faults and failures like any human being. It's hard when you find out that your friends and church will not restore you but blame you. You as a Pastor have probly restored many and covered many of their sins. So why as sheep when the Pastor falls we can't restore him. I just want to let you know that I am proud to call you my brother in Christ Jesus. You can not save what God has ripped apart. He reveal to you your true friends family. Every man wants a wife as honourable as yours. She is Proverbs 31:10-31 without a doubt. Please, God is still using you through all this right now. The meg-a-church is not a building anymore. It is located at the drug corners, jails, bars, mentally ill hospitals, homeless shelter. Please start your own church and ministry helping the old meg-a-church that never left us…LOST SOULS IN NEED OF HELP FROM JESUS OUR GOD.

I learned this lesson out my failures. That if you tell on yourself, the Devil can never tell on you. But use wisdom who you tell and confide in. Even when I preach I tell on myself. Just so the lost soul out there will know that I can related to their issues. You can relate to the OLD MEG-A-Church.

Please the fire of God is still in you. Do not church goverment or business stop you from preaching the true Word Of God. We need you now as member of the Body of Christ more then before.

I love you brother and your family. And if no one in the body of Christ has asked this of you I will.

PLEASE FORGIVE US BRO. TED…WE FORGIVE YOU!!!

With true love in Cgrist Jesus
Bro. Warren Rudd
HUIOS (Son) of the Living God
Issues of/ or/ and addictions
Ministry for men and women.

I am so sorry to hear about what you have gone through – your only sin was being human. To me, you appear to be the only true Christian from the congregation. They were lucky to have you. I pray for your continued healing (and I don't mean from homosexual tendancies) and the health of your family. God bless and hang in there! Your story is valuable to us all. At least it is to me.

Many of us wish Ted had.

I find it funny and pathetic how the hostile and spiteful gays scream at the top of their lungs about "Tolerance" and "Acceptance" for THEM and THEIRS….but gloat and drool over the downfall of Ted Haggard and his wife and kid's sufferings that we see here in this film. I mean…how lowlife is THAT.

Don't get me wrong…as a NYC Jewish guy….I am NO fan of Evangelical Christianity. I just find it disgusting that you hypocrites who pound your fists and yell "tolerance" have NONE for others….only for your OWN special interest groups.

Tim. you are not wrong, and i understand why you are frustrated, but the only way to get through to people is to command a response. swearing and commanding wont win anyone over, and this is the problem with that fight, there are too many heated camps. the fact is this, up until, and well past christs time there where homosexuals, and it persisted another 2000 years. it was accepted practice. in no place in the bible, or in any other place in its more modern translations does it dictate that it is wrong, or should be met with death, or any other claims by modern christians. you are putting words in your gods mouth. is that not blasphemy? i would suggest some research into your lord savior before you jump on any band wagons. peace is a worthy goal, why are you ignoring jesus and following war?

It is unique watching the interspliced speeches from the past as it causes me to wonder if he was talking about himself during some of his speeches. As someone who works in the helping profession, god knows there are alot of broken people doing this work who seem to do it out of some motivation to help themselves overcome their own personal flaws.

It that sense, all of these people are no different than Ted. At the end of the day, Ted's greatest flaw was his inability to help himself. Hmmm, put others before yourself, deny yourself, give all your belongings away, etc, etc., I wonder where he gleaned those things. The bible needs a giant disclaimer in it, "ideas in here can be very harmful to your well being – please use with extreme caution".

And to those who claim homosexuality is a sin, they need to educate yourselves. The motivation for old testament anti homosexual commentary came from the perspective within the Jewish faith that in order to survive as a people they needed to procreate, and any lost opportunity – whether via anal sex (buggery), or masturbation (onanism) – meant no children. So of course to motivate people to procreate, they did what still comes so easy to humans, to wish harm and ill will to those who did engage in the behavior, as an attempt to motivate them to do the "right" thing. You know what? 2500 years later, this profundly dumb idea still doesn't work.

In Edinburgh in the 18th century, it was illegal to be homeless and any one caught being homeless was killed. As if being threatened with death made it easier on them to find a home; no, they just went into hiding. Hmmmmm….just like some other people…..???? I wonder who ????

The point being humanity is guilty of being incredibly stupid sometimes, like the people who judge and condemn people with same sex attraction. Shame on all Xians who espouse hateful ideas towards those with a same sex attraction, you should be embarrassed of yourself to believe in a God of love while continuing to perpetuate such destructive ideas throughout humanity "because the bible says so". To those people I say stop allowing others to think for you and start thinking for yourself if you can.

And one more thing – his wife. that is one strong woman. he is blessed to have her. You'd think forgiveness would be the most difficult for her of anyone to give but she gave it anyways. That is love.

BAM!

quick, succinct and wonderfully witty. Great comment!

Everyone is full of possibility and failure. What drives this religious madness is peooples' willingness to give MONEY and VALIDATION to people who say THEY hold YOUR key to salvation. Whether it's Colorador or Nigeria. Please wake up. If you are looking for a relationship with a higher power, find it. Not through Ted Haggard's wallet. Or anyone else's.

Believing in something as strongly as Ted does, has much merit. Not many people can claim as much dedication in anything in their life. Before watching this I knew little about him, but what I did know led me to believe he was as hypocritical as his church members. Far from it.

I was part of a christian youth group (Young Life) in high school that was run by some 20-something year-old Christians. As long as I was on the straight and narrow, I was accepted and "popular" in the group. Who, at 14 years old, wouldn't want to hang around good looking older "leaders" and go on overnight trips and vacations with peers. The retreats consisted of water slides, power sailing, ropes courses and of course a large dose of scripture. When I was 14 I met an 18 year old guy in the group. He went to my high school. At first we were strictly friends, but when I was about 15 and he was in college, our friendship grew into a relationship. Because he was in a mainstream college- as opposed to a Christian college, the "evils" of drinking and pre-marital sex ran ramped according to the leaders of the group. Without knowing if I was actually having sex with him, or participating in drinking or other sinful activities, the female leader of the group met with me and informed me that if I didn't stop seeing him (keep in mind, he too was a former Young Life member) that she would no longer talk to me. It was at that moment that I found organized religion to be highly hypocritical. If I wanted to be in the group and stay accepted by the leaders, I either had to lie about my relationship with him or never see him again.

I chose neither and decided to disassociate myself from the group and the leaders. That "faith" that I had, turned to resentment and I chose to live my life free of organized religion.

At 17 I went to college and continued to see my boyfriend. At 18, we moved in together (unmarried) and lived together until we got married 2 years ago. Now I am 28 years old and we have been together for over 10 years. We are both ex-members of Young Life, the group that tried to keep us apart, and instead of attending church on Sundays we choose to live our lives by the principles of kindness, compassion, forgiveness and truth. If I make a mistake, as hard as it may be to admit, I do my best to own up to it and make it right. If I hurt someone's feelings- regardless of how unintentional it was, I try doubly hard to make that person feel good about something. No one is perfect.

The "leader" that gave me that ultimatum recently came to town with her husband (now a pastor) and her 3 kids. Out of the blue she asked if I wanted to stop by and see her. I decided, "eh, why not?". With my wedding pictures in hand, we met for an awkward hour or two. We didn't talk about Young Life or really anything having to do with religion. I thought maybe she would now see that the relationship she so disproved of, actually turned out to be the best thing for me. But; no apology came to fruition.

As I was leaving she said, "It was really nice to see you, I've met so many people throughout the years and I only really keep in touch with certain people". I thought that that was a strange comment, but I also thought for a second that maybe she meant it in a way that included me in those "certain people". I emailed her later that week to thank her for the meeting. I haven't heard from her since.

Hang in there Ted and take it one day at a time. Sometimes that's all you can do. And thank you for taking part in this documentary. There is much to take away from this.

WOW. If Ted was able to be talked out of his dude love, why does he believe so strongly in heaven and hell? Why is it the the supposed “noble” and rightous get to enforce their rules on the masses, but in the end we find out that they are the diggest secret FREAKS of us all? Farther Murphy and his child-diddling, Father Haggard with his meth and his hot man love, the entire belief of acceptance of all that you believe and the decrying of all things they find immoral. Moral of the story, it OK to break all the rules while condemming everyone else who would do the same… as long as you hide that you secretly do much more horrifying things in your own closet

It also says, thou shalt not kill. Ever killed a bug? Why take some parts of the book literally and some figuritively?

Darren Willis – Come on! For every quote you pull I can pull a contradiction to that quote. Did you ever think that perhaps SATAN, who is supposedly so powerful that he can manipulate even a devout priest to perform such a hypocritical acts, actually formulated all the world’s religions in order to put everyone in a state of fear, hostility and war over “my God is the only God” The anger and hatred is something, it would seem, that SATAN would feed off of is it not? Jesus was a simple man, never had a CHURCH, never collected monies, never did much of anything that resembles evangelical and other churches and organized religions of today. You religious zealouts are having the wool pulled over your eyes. By whom you ask? By corporations, treasuries of churches, govt’s who want to manipulate masses, by ordained ministers. If GOD wanted you to live by the bible, don’t you think, since he’s given you all the things you need to sustain and prosper in life (i.e., brain, internal organs, biological marvel of the human body, hands to hold things, eyes to see things, ears to hear things, a mind to THINK THINGS THROUGH), he’d have made sure the damn bible was attached to your hand fresh out the womb so you wouldn’t be without it if it were that necessary a tool? Why be sheep when you can be an individual who is not easily herded by a paster but lives life through a conscious awareness of what you’re inflicting on others lives. Live for now and stop living for some promise of a happily everafter. You probably think Muslims are insane for thinking there are 72 virgins waiting them if they are martyrs. Well what is the difference in thinking that and in thinking there’s some big pearly gates up in heaven where you go through and live happily everafter? THINK AND LOVE WHOLEHEARTEDLY. That was the message of Jesus and the other masters who walked the earth to try to teach the fools.

This situation is so crazy,….thank’s that i’m leaving in Canada!!!

Lets not get all watery eyes about this fake. Before he was found out he preached a particular vile attitude towards his fellow man. Clearly he did not believe a word of it. He was an adviser to George Bush and would no doubt have brought back the death penalty for Homosexuals should he have had the opportunity. No friends as we move through lifes journey it is time that these preachers of hate are seen for what they are. Time to grow up as a species and time we threw religion into the basket of history. On a personal level I wish him well and that one day he will see clearly as to the time he has wasted on this stuff. One life live it well.

Mojo you say your heart goes out to him, that is compassion. The pseudo preachers of this New Life sect have not one ounce of compassion. What happened to the idea of forgivness, religion poison’s everything. TIME WE ALL GREW UP.

I would urge anyone to watch Richard Dawkins Root of all Evil, where he interviews Ted Haggard. Haggard is full of hatred and hauntingly sinister in his approach to Dawkins, the madness in his eyes still makes my flesh creep. This is what religion does to people. Now he is starting a life where the seeds of Ted being true to himself are starting to grow. TED if you are reading this you are not a sinner, just a decent human being who was caught in the confusion of religious dogma. You can be free of this you can be happy, your life can be meaningful without this garbage. Peace

Come to the other side Ted… you could smoke all the penis you want and no one will raise a brow! Except maybe the homophobes but they’re pretty much all christian anyway.