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Evangelist Steps Down Over Gay Sex Claim
Nov 03 By Buck TURGIDSON, AP Writer
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.

A leading evangelist and outspoken opponent
of gay marriage has resigned as president of
the National Association of Evangelicals
while the group's leaders and a church panel
investigate allegations that he paid a man
for sex.

The Rev. Ted Haggard also gave up leadership
of his New Life Church pending its
investigation into allegations that he had
monthly trysts with a gay prostitute over
the past three years.

Haggard, a married father of five, denied
the allegations, telling KUSA-TV: "I've
never had a gay relationship with anybody
.... I'm faithful to my wife."

But New Life Church's acting pastor later
said Haggard had acknowledged some of the
accusations were true. In an e-mail to
congregants, Ross Parsley wrote that the
church's four-member board of overseers had
met with Haggard.