I'd like to know how they tested this........ http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/...&en=e85aa315c9092d7e&ei=5094&partner=homepage DENVER (AP) -- One of four ministers who oversaw three weeks of intensive counseling for the Rev. Ted Haggard said the disgraced minister emerged convinced that he is ''completely heterosexual.'' Haggard also said his sexual contact with men was limited to the former male prostitute who came forward with sexual allegations, the Rev. Tim Ralph of Larkspur told The Denver Post for a story in Tuesday's edition. ''He is completely heterosexual,'' Ralph said. ''That is something he discovered. It was the acting-out situations where things took place. It wasn't a constant thing.'' Ralph said the board spoke with people close to Haggard while investigating his claim that his only extramarital sexual contact happened with Mike Jones. The board found no evidence to the contrary. ''If we're going to be proved wrong, somebody else is going to come forward, and that usually happens really quickly,'' he said. ''We're into this thing over 90 days and it hasn't happened.'' Haggard resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals last year after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced. He was also forced out from the 14,000 New Life Church that he founded years ago in his basement after Jones alleged Haggard paid him for sex and sometimes used methamphetamine when they were together. Haggard, who is married, has publicly admitted to ''sexual immorality.'' Haggard said in an e-mail Sunday, his first communication in three months to church members, that he and his wife, Gayle, plan to pursue master's degrees in psychology. The e-mail said the family hasn't decided where to move but that they were considering Missouri and Iowa. Another oversight board member, the Rev. Mike Ware of Westminster, said the group recommended the move out of town and the Haggards agreed. ''This is a good place for Ted,'' Ware said. ''It's hard to heal in Colorado Springs right now. It's like an open wound. He needs to get somewhere he can get the wound healed.'' It was also the oversight board that strongly urged Haggard to go into secular work.
Ridiculous statement to make, irresponsible also. If he swears off all other affairs because he wants to be faithful to his wife, that's one thing. But there's no need to proclaim his heterosexuality.
Possibly something like this: The scientists arranged the trysts. It's called "sexual partner preference testing." According to an article by researchers involved in the project, here's how it works. In a 15-by-10-foot "arena," a young ram is offered four choices: two ewes in heat and two rams. "The four stimulus animals are restrained in stanchions so that they can only be approached from the sides and rear." For 30 minutes, the unrestrained ram does as he pleases. The scientists count his "anogenital sniffs," "mounts," and "ejaculations." http://www.slate.com/id/2158877/fr/flyout Thank goodness that this long national nightmare is now over.
This is crazy...I'm not ghey, not that there's anything wrong with that, but its something you're born with,etc, IMHO...I know why he's saying/doing this, but this is pathetic...
Is anyone else getting tired of the "rehab defense". I'm guess his wife will have to learn a "new position".
hey now let's leave her out of this. she's got enough problems with the whole unfaithful husband thing.
Tell me I'm not the only one who saw the thread title and instantly thought "wow, Merle Haggard was gay?"
