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"stoney" |
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19 Dec 2006 06:49:44 PM |
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2nd Colo. pastor quits over ‘sexual misconduct’ |
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16281616/
2nd Colo. pastor quits over ‘sexual misconduct’
Minister at New Life Church resigns weeks after church leader steps down
Updated: 11:16 a.m. ET Dec. 19, 2006
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A pastor who worked with young adults at New
Life Church has admitted sexual misconduct and resigned just weeks after
former church leader Ted Haggard stepped down over sexual immorality.
Christopher Beard, who headed the “twentyfourseven” ministry that taught
leadership skills to young adults, resigned Friday, said Rob Brendle, an
associate pastor at the 14,000-member church.
Brendle said Beard told church officials about “a series of decisions
displaying poor judgment, including one incident of sexual misconduct
several years ago.”
The church said in a statement that the misconduct was with another
unmarried adult several years ago. Beard, who worked at the church for
nine years, has since married.
Brendle would not elaborate about the nature of the misconduct but said
it did not involve Haggard, who acknowledged he paid a man for a massage
and for methamphetamine but said he did not have sex with the man and
did not use the drug.
'Spiritual character'
Beard’s resignation was first reported Monday by The Denver Post and The
Gazette in Colorado Springs. The church said it wouldn’t comment
further. A residential phone number listed in Beard’s name was
disconnected.
The church’s outside Board of Overseers was asked to examine the
“spiritual character” of its 200 staff members after Haggard resigned
last month from the church and as president of the National Association
of Evangelicals.
“We recognize there will be increased scrutiny of our church in the wake
of the scandal,” Brendle said.
He said Beard discussed his “misconduct” during a meeting with the Board
of Overseers, made up of four pastors from other congregations.
Beard was reprimanded by the church in 2002, when police broke up a
twentyfourseven training exercise he led in a church parking lot
involving fake assault rifles.
Haggard and his wife, Gayle Haggard, are undergoing three weeks of
counseling at an undisclosed center in Arizona.
© 2006 The Associated Press
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| User: "Michael Gray" |
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| Title: Re: 2nd Colo. pastor quits over ‘sexual misconduct’ |
19 Dec 2006 11:38:12 PM |
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:49:44 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <932ho2lt8gng4303dm6j6kv2fghk8bk6h5@4ax.com>
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16281616/
2nd Colo. pastor quits over ‘sexual misconduct’
Minister at New Life Church resigns weeks after church leader steps down
Updated: 11:16 a.m. ET Dec. 19, 2006
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A pastor who worked with young adults at New
Life Church has admitted sexual misconduct and resigned just weeks after
former church leader Ted Haggard stepped down over sexual immorality.
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At this rate, by the end of next year, every single priest will be in
prison!
(And not a moment too soon)
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| User: "Doc Smartass" |
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| Title: Re: 2nd Colo. pastor quits over ‘sexual misconduct’ |
20 Dec 2006 07:01:08 PM |
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stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote in news:932ho2lt8gng4303dm6j6kv2fghk8bk6h5@
4ax.com:
Subject: 2nd Colo. pastor quits over 'sexual misconduct'
They're droppin' like their flies.
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Doc Smartass
"***** repeated to the limit of infinity asymptotically approaches
the odour of roses." -- Relf's Law
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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| Title: Re: 2nd Colo. pastor quits over 'sexual misconduct' |
21 Dec 2006 10:09:15 AM |
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"Doc Smartass" <gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns989FC18028BAFaskifyouwantit@216.77.188.18...
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote in news:932ho2lt8gng4303dm6j6kv2fghk8bk6h5@
4ax.com:
Subject: 2nd Colo. pastor quits over 'sexual misconduct'
They're droppin' like their flies.
SNORT! :)
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Resident Witchypoo
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I think religion is so popular because even the village idiot can feel like
Einstein without any effort. - Denis Loubet
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| User: "Doc Smartass" |
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| Title: Re: 2nd Colo. pastor quits over 'sexual misconduct' |
23 Dec 2006 11:46:43 PM |
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"Robibnikoff" <witchypoo@broomstick.com> wrote in
news:4uvpkdF1a8hrtU1@mid.individual.net:
"Doc Smartass" <gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns989FC18028BAFaskifyouwantit@216.77.188.18...
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote in
news:932ho2lt8gng4303dm6j6kv2fghk8bk6h5@ 4ax.com:
Subject: 2nd Colo. pastor quits over 'sexual misconduct'
They're droppin' like their flies.
SNORT! :)
Dammit--didn't catch you drinkin'!
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Doc Smartass
"***** repeated to the limit of infinity asymptotically approaches
the odour of roses." -- Relf's Law
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