DENVER, COLORADO -- According to Senior
Pastor Ross Parsley, who stepped in as evangelist Ted Haggard's
replacement after the gay hustler scandal broke, some of the accusations
made by the gay escort against Haggard are true.
Parsley sent out an email to parishioners of Haggard's New Life Church
in Colorado Springs Thursday, acknowledging some of the allegations made
by Mike Jones, who claims he had a three-year "sexual business"
relationship with the prominent pastor.
"It is important for you to know that he confessed to the overseers that
some of the accusations against him are true," Parsley said in the
e-mail.
"[Haggard] has willingly and humbly submitted to the authority of the
board of overseers, and will remain on administrative leave during the
course of the investigation."
Haggard was one of the leaders in the campaign to constitutionally ban
gay marriage in Colorado as well as president of the multimillion-member
National Association of Evangelicals. He participated in weekly
conference calls with the White House and President George W. Bush.
Mike Jones claims Haggard paid him to have sex nearly every month for
three years. Jones said that he had advertised himself as an escort on
the Internet and that a man who called himself Art contacted him. Jones
said he later saw the man on television identified as Haggard.
He said that he last had sex with Haggard in August and that he did not
warn him before making his allegations this week.
Below is a video of Haggard preaching against homosexuality from the
recent documentary Jesus Camp:
"It is important for you to know that he confessed to the overseers that
some of the accusations against him are true," Parsley said in the
e-mail. 
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