This is an appropriately weird way to end a discouraging day.
Ted Haggard is coming to TLC.
The controversial Christian evangelical is getting his own reality project on the cable network. Ted Haggard: Scandalous will air as a one-hour special on the network.
You can guess the rest – it’s a pilot for a potential series. Gag me. When it rains, it pours. Todd Bentley has some reality show competition. They belong together in the reality show universe.’ Night all.
I watched this pilot episode out of morbid curiosity but doubt I’ll watch any further as it pains me to think how he has embarassed the good name and reputations of an otherwise lovely, godly and upstanding family in the community.
I’ll give him some brownie points for continuing to have his phone number listed in the book—so virtually anyone can call him direct on his cell #—which makes him open and accessable to the public, despite being so famous (or infamous). I wasn’t surprised at the volume of calls, nor the anger of many but was surprised that Haggard allowed them to air uncensored.
It’s also good that he helped that drug addicted woman. I’m not saying he’s not a nice guy and has never done some nice things, either before or after the fall. It’s just that when someone becomes a world famous evangelist, they shouldn’t be buying and snorting drugs or engaging in extra-marital activities, either before or after the ”Thou shalt not”’ sermons because it makes them appear as degenerate hypocrites who do not practive the very words they preach.
I realize the guy has to make a living but reality tv is scraping the bottom.
Please listen to Dr. Scott Johnson’s teaching on Ted Haggard (see Contending For Truth.Com) as he elaborates on a few things that are too racy to mention here.
I watched it too.
The production company put an ad on Craig’s List for people willing to be counselled by Haggard.
Kind of puts his participation in a bit different light, seems the production company needed a bit more drama in the show.
Haggard gave quite the interview to GQ. He seems to need the spotlight.
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201102/pastor-ted-haggard?printable=true