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[2]Are you tired of Ted Haggard or do you feel closer to him than ever? For Vanity Fair's [3] blog, the answer is clearly the former: "Ugh, sanctimonious (former!) meth fiend Ted Haggard, the inventor of Colorado's New Life Church who stepped down in 2006 following a gay-prostitution/drugs scandal, announced today that he is starting a radical, game-changing new church." To take a less judgmental tone, Haggard, who was exiled from his Colorado Springs church after the 2006 scandal, is simply looking for a new lease on his religious life. So far, his words don't sound like run-of-the-mill, conservative, evangelism. "Everyone is welcome: Democrat, Republican, gay, straight, bi, addicts, tall, short," Haggard says of his new church, dubbed St. James, reports the Colorado Springs Gazette [4]. "Jesus' arms are open to all of us." Immediate plans for the church are to locate a worship site. "We’ll talk about how to love," Haggard says. The Los Angeles-based Prenner Group, which has handled publicity for the reality show, "The Girls Next Door," featuring Playboy models, is handling public relations for Haggard.
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[1] http://www.5280.com/tag/authors/michael-de-yoanna
[2] http://www.5280.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Haggard-Ted_2.jpg
[3] http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/06/ted-haggard-is-ready-to-start-a-new-church-now.html
[4] http://www.gazette.com/articles/span-99700-style-color.html