Overseers criticize Haggard’s Cash Plea - Disgraced pastor told to find secular work

I previously commented on Ted Haggard's questionable pleas for financial assistance via a defunct charity associated with a convicted sex offender. Apparently, Daddy Dobson, or whoever is orchestrating Ted's alleged ex-gay recovery is NOT happy and are moving to shut down Haggard's operation. At the same time, it illustrates how these parasitic "Christian" leaders believe that they deserve to be supported by the naive rather than get a real job. Here are some highlights from the Colorado Springs Gazette:

Disgraced minister Ted Haggard’s e-mailed plea for money and his announced intention to return to religious work was “unacceptable” and “inappropriate,” according to a statement Wednesday by pastors overseeing his restoration. The fourpastor team of overseers said in the statement that Haggard must seek secular employment to support himself and his family. Reached by phone, Haggard said Wednesday he is barred from commenting on the overseers’ statement. The overseers were assigned to help Haggard and his former church, New Life in Colorado Springs, recover from the scandal that broke in November when a former male prostitute said he and Haggard had a three-year sexual relationship and that Haggard had used methamphetamine.

Last week, Haggard, who moved to Phoenix after he was fired by the Colorado Springs megachurch, sent an e-mail to ABC affiliate KRDO about his plans to work in a faith-based halfway house known as the Dream Center. The Dream Center is run by Tommy Barnett, one of Haggard’s spiritual mentors and head of the 15,000-member Phoenix First Assembly of God, which Haggard now attends. Haggard asked for two years of monthly support while he worked and lived in the Dream Center and he and his wife finished earning degrees at the University of Phoenix.

“After their fact-finding was complete, they (overseers) informed Mr. Haggard that his plan and his communications about it were unacceptable. Mr. Haggard’s solicitation for personal support was inappropriate. It was never the intention of the Dream Center that Mr. Haggard would provide any counsel or other ministry. Mr. Haggard will not be moving in or working with the Dream Center. He will not be doing any ministry. He will be seeking secular employment to support himself and his family.”