COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Former anti-gay megachurch pastor Ted Haggard, who fell from grace amid a sex scandal involving a male prostitute, is starting a new church in Colorado Springs.
Haggard revealed his plans Wednesday during a news conference at his home, three weeks after he said he filed incorporation papers for a new church.
Haggard resigned in 2006 as senior pastor of the then 14,000-member New Life Church after a male prostitute alleged Haggard paid him for sex over three years. A male church volunteer last year also reported having a sexual relationship with Haggard.
Haggard on Wednesday didn’t directly address the scandal or his role in it, but said he had been broken and his church would be a place for broken people.
But Haggard said the experience has made him more sympathetic to others and said he feels better qualified to counsel people. He said there is a “possibility” of an another documentary film, this one on the founding of his new church but added there are no plans for a reality TV show.
