{"id":2987,"date":"2006-11-04T09:41:58","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T13:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/11\/04\/for-research-purposes-only\/"},"modified":"2006-11-04T09:41:58","modified_gmt":"2006-11-04T13:41:58","slug":"for-research-purposes-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/11\/04\/for-research-purposes-only\/","title":{"rendered":"For Research Purposes Only"},"content":{"rendered":"

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Rev. Ted Haggard admitted yesterday that he bought methamphetamine and received a massage from a male prostitute. But the influential Christian evangelist insisted he threw the drugs away and never had sex with the man.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Haggard said that he received a massage from Jones after being referred to him by a Denver hotel and that he bought meth for himself from Jones.<\/p>\n

But Haggard said he never had sex with Jones. And as for the drugs, "I was tempted, but I never used it," the 50-year-old Haggard told reporters from his vehicle while leaving his home with his wife and three of his five children.<\/p>\n

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The entries in the "Waddeva you say" World’s Weakest Excuse contest are literally pouring in. It’s been a bad year for sanctimonious psuedo-religious hipocrites. This particular entry falls into the "Didn’t Inhale" Finger-Crossed category. The <\/em>eponymously named Haggard is the favorite to take home the Jim Baker trophy this year…. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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