Features Nov 9, 2006 at 4:00 am

Ted Haggard's Crystal Cathedral

A Visit to the Gayest Place on Earth

Noel Black
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Pictures please.
on October 5, 2008 at 10:04 AM Report this
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The sissy eyes of Mordor are watching you...
on October 21, 2008 at 3:39 PM Report this
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When my family moved to Wichita Falls, Texas from a pretty isolated (mostly Lutheran) part of Iowa in 1990, we didn't know much about evangelical Christians and their crusade against homosexuality. There was a megachurch there, First Baptist, and the pastor at the time was this FLAMING QUEEN named Robert Jeffress (pronounced with a cartoonishly effeminate Southern drawl).

I remember the first time we ever saw him on TV, my mom was like, "Wow! It's pretty progressive that the big ass Baptist church has a gay preacher." Well, as it turned out, of course, Jeffress is NOT openly gay. He is however one of the meanest little self-hating closet cases I've ever had the misfortune of meeting. In 1998, he made a huge production about STEALING two books, "Heather has Two Mommies" and "Daddy's Roommate" from the public library, presumably so he could spank to them in privacy. Now he presides over First Baptist Church in Dallas, where he routinely perpetrates the same kind of gay-hating assholery for attention.

Hey gays: I got a proposition for you. I know this little shit is revolting--and his nuts probably smell like the inside of your grandma's purse--but will someone PLEASE step up and take one for the team, then send photos to The Stranger so they can help take this queen DOWN?
on December 16, 2008 at 4:58 PM Report this
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When my family moved to Wichita Falls, Texas from a pretty isolated (mostly Lutheran) part of Iowa in 1990, we didn't know much about evangelical Christians and their crusade against homosexuality. There was a megachurch there, First Baptist, and the pastor at the time was this FLAMING QUEEN named Robert Jeffress (pronounced with a cartoonishly effeminate Southern drawl).

I remember the first time we ever saw him on TV, my mom was like, "Wow! It's pretty progressive that the big ass Baptist church has a gay preacher." Well, as it turned out, of course, Jeffress is NOT openly gay. He is however one of the meanest little self-hating closet cases I've ever had the misfortune of meeting. In 1998, he made a huge production about STEALING two books, "Heather has Two Mommies" and "Daddy's Roommate" from the public library, presumably so he could spank to them in privacy. Now he presides over First Baptist Church in Dallas, where he routinely perpetrates the same kind of gay-hating assholery for attention.

Hey gays: I got a proposition for you. I know this little shit is revolting--and his nuts probably smell like the inside of your grandma's purse--but will someone PLEASE step up and take one for the team, then send photos to The Stranger so they can help take this queen DOWN?
on December 16, 2008 at 5:01 PM Report this
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on January 11, 2009 at 9:31 AM Report this
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I love rehashing the story of this self-loathing asshole falling from grace just as much as anyone else, but I have to ask: How is this pertinent? What's new that's reason to put this story up on the site?

(Also, you forgot to mention the sex offender who was in charge of accepting donations for the benefit of Haggard's family after they all went into hiding after the media firestorm. Not really related, but a fun side note!)
Knat on July 18, 2009 at 9:57 PM Report this
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Unfortunately exposing the closet gays among the gay-haters doesn't seem to do anything. It only makes the rest of the flock more ferocious. Look what happened to Ted Haggard. He was run out of town, shunned by the community, and the target of angry vitriol from his former church. I watched a documentary about him a couple of years ago and I was more sad for him than anything else. He lost everything and was roaming around the country trying to find a job- any job. These people are victims too, of a culture that hates them and teaches them to hate themselves. I don't know what the answer is but hating them for their hate isn't it.
johnnycanuck on February 4, 2011 at 7:19 AM Report this

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