Let U$ Pray, $end Money

Pastor Ted Haggard, who left the New Life megachurch he founded after admitting to 'sexual immorality' with a male prostitute, and to purchasing methamphetamines, has asked for financial support while he and his wife pursue academic studies.

The e-mail solicitation:

"It looks as though it will take two years for us to have adequate earning power again, so we are looking for people who will help us monthly for two years. During that time we will continue as full-time students, and then, when I graduate, we won't need outside support any longer."

The couple and two of their sons planned to move to the Phoenix Dream Center, a faith-based halfway house in Phoenix, where Haggard and his wife would provide counseling, according to KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs.

But wait ....

The Colorado Springs Gazette reported that: 

 
     Haggard received a salary of $115,000 for the 10 months he worked in 2006 ... and an $85,000 anniversary bonus before the scandal broke ... and a severance package which included a year's salary of $138,000 ... and he collects royalties on his book titles.

El Paso County records show Haggard's Colorado Springs home, which has been up for sale, has a market value of $715,051.

It gets better.

    According to the Colorado Secretary of State, the tax-exempt group Haggard asked that donations (10% of donations for administrative costs and 90% to Haggard) be sent to on his behalf - Families With a Mission ... was dissolved in February 2007.

And Paul Huberty, a convicted sex offender, is/was the register agent of Families With a Mission. Huberty was convicted of attempted sexual assault in Hawaii, and also has a military conviction for sodomy of a minor, incest and adultery while serving in the U.S. Air Force.

A few days after Haggard's solicitation request, Mike Ware, New Life Church overseer issued a news release stating that Haggard was told during a meeting in Phoenix, "his (Haggard's) plan and his communications about it were unacceptable and that Haggard would not be working at the Dream Center or in ministry of any kind and that they advised Haggard to seek secular employment to support himself and his family."

There is a god.


"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." -- Thomas Paine