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Published: 06/2/10

Ted Haggard Is Back: Gay Sex, Drug Scandal Can't Keep Evangelical Leader Down

By  David Gibson - Politics Daily
Ted Haggard Is Back: Gay Sex, Drug Scandal Can't Keep Evangelical Leader Down

Christianity is all about second acts, and disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard is the latest conservative Christian to exploit that role to the hilt. Haggard announced Wednesday that he is starting a new church in the same town -- Colorado Springs -- that he left in humiliation in 2006 following a gay sex and drugs scandal. And he says this church will be for people like himself, "a church for sinners -- for people who have hit rock bottom and people who want to help people who have hit rock bottom. ... It is not a gathering for the righteous, except those who are righteous by ...

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