Newly revealed Ted Haggard e-mail admits gay masturbation and drug use
”I was referred to Mike Jones from the concierge at a Marriott hotel when I asked for a masseur. It was during the massage that it started to become sensual, and that led to him masturbating me. That was and is our only sexual contact, but it was immoral and it was this experience that caused me to confess immorality in my letter of resignation from New Life Church. During the conversation with Mike during and after the time he masturbated me, he told me about some drugs that he could get for me that would enhance my masturbation experience. I returned on five occasions and bought those drugs. I actually used them three times, throwing them away in shame before use two times. It is for these offenses that I confessed being immoral and deceitful.”
Major portion of an e-mail that is allegedly from the former New Life televangelist Ted Haggard, in which he appears to admit to having sexual activity with a gay male escort named Mike Jones, and also confirming Jones’ other accusation that Haggard had used the drug crytal meth. The October 3, 2007 e-mail comes via a Haggard family friend, Kurt Serpe, who says he wanted the truth to be out about the matter. Jones, as you’ll recall, came forward with his allegations of meeting with Haggard for the purposes of gay prostitution back in 2006, after he saw Haggard espousing hypocritical views about homesexuality. (KRDO)
“I thought it was important to know, so I could have clarity…. He craved sex, he was a sexaholic,” says Serpe. He believes it had nothing to do with homosexuality, but more about masturbation and gratification. “This is something that he has been struggling with all of his life.”
Comments by Kurt Serpe, who is said to be a close family friend of Ted Haggard’s for 20 years, regarding his impressions of the disgraced pastor’s behavior. Serpe said he thinks that Haggard’s experience was about masturbation but not gratification. (KRDO)
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