Remember Ted Haggard? The church leader that, come to find out, was a mo-in-hiding…

Well, I just came across this post from Max Blumenthal at Talk To Action. A MUST READ.

My favorite parts:

To begin with, after only three weeks of “therapy,” Haggard was pronounced “completely heterosexual” by his evangelical “overseers” (who included James Dobson’s first cousin, HB London, but not Massa Ames from Alex Haley’s “Roots”).

Then — this is the most salient part — Haggard signed a non-disclosure agreement with his former congregation, New Life Church, and received an unknown sum of what could only be described as hush money. The agreement included a clause that forbids either Haggard or New Life from stating how much his silence was worth.

Finally, Haggard decided at the urging of National Association of Evangelicals board members to leave Colorado Springs and, together with his very loyal wife, study for his masters in psychology. I’ll spare everyone the obvious joke here about lunatics running the asylum.