Disgraced ex Rev. Ted Haggard is working every angle to stay in the media, and was recently booked on Fox"s "Divorce Court." The former evangelical pastor and his wife are planning another TV appearance after their HBO documentary, "The Trials Of Ted Haggard," aired in January. The two taped an appearance on the syndicated Twentieth Television show "Divorce Court," to be broadcast nationally April 1. The show's judge, Lynn Toler, interviewed the couple about how their marriage survived after a male prostitute was found to be involved in a sex and drugs fueled-relationship with Ted Haggard in November 2006. The scandal forced Haggard to resign as president of the National Association of Evangelicals and New Life Church in Colorado...
- 3/22/2009
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Alexandra Pelosi’s The Trials of Ted Haggard is a behind-the-scenes peek at the fallen pastor post meth-and-male-escort-scandal as he struggles to rebuild his life now that he’s been banished from his Colorado Springs mega-church and forced into exile in Arizona. Traveling from “safe house” to “safe house” with his loving wife Gayle (who explains her decision to stand by her man with a no-nonsense, “I don’t believe in writing people off”) and well-adjusted sons, they literally rely on the kindness of strangers. And if you think I’m being metaphorically melodramatic describing Haggard and his kin in biblical terms of banishment from their holy land, forced to wander like ancient Jews, think again. One of Pelosi’s frequently used title cards actually explains that the New Life Church inexplicably fixed it so the sweet-natured Haggard not only can’t preach in Colorado or anywhere else â ...
- 2/11/2009
- by Lauren Wissot
- Spout
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