Slog - Comments on Overseers to Haggard: Get a Job! http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job Ted Haggard's overseers cracked the the motherfuckin' whip yesterday--p*tsch! p*tsch!—and told the cocksucking, freeloading fundy to stop shaking down gullible Christians and find some honest work. Overseers tell Haggard: Stop asking for money and get a job Disgraced pastor Ted Haggard won't be fundraising for a Monument nonprofit run by a sex offender, won't be ministering to anyone and needs to get a job, his overseers said in a statement released this afternoon. "Mr. Haggard's solicitation for personal support was inappropriate," his church supervisors said in the statement. Take a bow, Dave Coffman. It was Coffman who discovered that... Copyright 2008 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:40:16 -0800 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:34:02 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe Any day now, he is going to fucking kill himself.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793413 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793413 Religion Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:57:44 -0800 Comment by Jeb "Putsch" is a word, Dan.

]]> Jeb http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793414 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793414 Religion Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:58:54 -0800 Comment by Dan Savage It's not "putsch," it's p*tsch--the sound of a whip being cracked....

]]> Dan Savage http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793415 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793415 Religion Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:14:43 -0800 Comment by johnnie Alienated labor will save us all from our hypocracy!

]]> johnnie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793417 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793417 Religion Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:20:01 -0800 Comment by elenchos I wonder why the sound of a whip being cracked isn't crack! crack!

I'm also trying to picture who will hire this man. And what is he qualified to do? He went to Oral Roberts Univeristy, according to Wikipedia. We can guess that he isn't going to be doing any more of what he majored in. Perhaps he minored in something marketable?

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793421 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793421 Religion Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:37:35 -0800 Comment by arduous congrats, dan. your obsession with haggard pays off!

]]> arduous http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793422 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793422 Religion Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:41:46 -0800 Comment by Bento Oral. Heh.

]]> Bento http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793423 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793423 Religion Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:42:44 -0800 Comment by longball between this and Larry Craigopalooza all i gotta say is, Happy Birthday Dan! and Merry Chistmas too. If not for the Mariners, this could have been a nominee for best week ever.

]]> longball http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793431 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793431 Religion Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:32:39 -0800 Comment by DJSauvage Yes, I would like fries with that!

]]> DJSauvage http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793440 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793440 Religion Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:13:44 -0800 Comment by Jonathan Oh dear. Who volunteers to whip elenchos?

]]> Jonathan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793441 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793441 Religion Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:14:32 -0800 Comment by mj For many reasons this news makes me HAPPY!

]]> mj http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793442 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793442 Religion Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:23:22 -0800 Comment by annie That's an AP story, actually. It'll be EVERYWHERE!

]]> annie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793446 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793446 Religion Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:40:33 -0800 Comment by MF I'm telling you, Public Intern needs to bake Dave Coffman a cake. CAKE CAKE CAKE!

]]> MF http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793451 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793451 Religion Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:51:14 -0800 Comment by helena handbasket I'm with ya Dan. Let's tell all the parasites, the preachers, teachers, and leechers: GET AN FFFFING JOB!

]]> helena handbasket http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793474 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793474 Religion Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:10:13 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Mr. Coffman, you are a national hero. So are the interns you mentioned on an earlier post, which I'm too lazy to look up -- Ary and ....? You'll never buy a drink in any bar that I'm in.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793491 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793491 Religion Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:01:21 -0800 Comment by Kristin Bell He looks like he is squishing poop in his hand in the photo there. And, I might add, really getting off on it!

]]> Kristin Bell http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793497 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793497 Religion Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:37:23 -0800 Comment by Matt from Denver Once again, what Fnarf said. Dave, good job! And if you're ever in Denver I'll buy the drinks.

]]> Matt from Denver http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793507 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793507 Religion Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:55:58 -0800 Comment by Mark Dan, you missed the ball here in gloating over Haggard without bitching about his overseers too. Sure, Haggard is a bastard and deserves what he gets, but what about those hyper-hypocritical "Christian" overseers who've just thrown their own to the lions and left the lamb to fend for himself? Granted, Haggard is hardly a lamb, but you get the metaphor! Wail on them too -- it's more disgusting than poo-eaters how they preach forgiveness and acceptance, yet show their true colors in how they treat people like Haggard (or Senator Craig) -- in a second they put their own in a meat grinder and turn their backs forever, just like the pricks they really are. F*ck the lot of them. If you do a column on Craig, please rail on the hypocrisy of his colleagues a bit. The whole bunch should go to hell. Times like this I feel sorry I'm an atheist, Haggard got what he deserved but most of these Republichristians will upon death simply cease to exist, with millions in their pockets going tax-free to their brats, and a smile on their sanctimonious faces...

]]> Mark http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793520 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793520 Religion Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:41:06 -0800 Comment by Hag Fag Just when I thought it was again safe to wade in the Slog cesspool, you dredge this tasty nugget about my man Hag. ... What will you Kos-tards do when you don't have fabulous Ted to swish & swat any more? You'll probably try to set up a happy-feet conservative senator for entrapment.

]]> Hag Fag http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793543 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793543 Religion Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:40:13 -0800 Comment by MBI "Thrown the lamb to the wolves"? Bullshit, that was EXACTLY the right response. His superiors have apologized and covered for him enough already; it's tough love* time. You can fling a lot of shit at that particular church, but I don't see how they can be faulted for their actions here.

*a different kind of tough love

]]> MBI http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793551 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793551 Religion Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:56:03 -0800 Comment by Andrew Nazi Pope. You're a real class act, huh.

]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793569 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793569 Religion Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:30:18 -0800 Comment by Dave Coffman Thanks Dan and everyone.... and to answer Fnarf's question it was Adam and Ary in the office who did a lot of the grunt work as well. And we were going to leave early last Friday!

]]> Dave Coffman http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793618 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793618 Religion Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:27:51 -0800 Comment by Dan Savage Yes, I should only speak politely of the Nazi Pope--he's never been nothin' but kind to me and mine, after all. "Intrinsic moral disorder," etc.

]]> Dan Savage http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793629 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c793629 Religion Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:44:44 -0800 Comment by Issur The Pope is a Nazi and the ignorant goi need to be reminded of this. Tikkun Olum, the repair of this torn-apart piece of the world embodies the ideals of tzedakah - this mean attacking Christians whenever and wherever we can.

The goi must be show the emptiness of their religion so that the true religion Judaism may spread it's light and justice through this world.

Thank you Dan for these postings, you are the only Seattle Paper willing with the balls to call the Pope a Nazi. Mazel Tov!

]]> Issur http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c794128 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c794128 Religion Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:01:42 -0800 Comment by bobbyr The Pope actually did belong to the Hitler Youth as a child. That doesn't technically make him a Nazi, of course. But the Pope in office during World War 2 was probably a closet Nazi. He was much more worried about the Commies than the Nazis. The Nazis were "Christians" after all. Read the book, "Hitler's Pope" for all the details. And remember, the Roman Catholic Church helped many Nazi criminals escape Europe after the war. It's all in the record. The Catholic Church has much to answer for, from the Inquisition to Galileo to supporting Franco to its current-day gay-bashing. I say ban the Church and give all its property to the Quakers.

]]> bobbyr http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c794185 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c794185 Religion Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:48:57 -0800 Comment by frequency ass bandit aliyah, you're getting redundant and it's beginning to be too easily ignored.

how did it take THIS long and OVERSEERS for him to be told this?! you want money, get a fucking job. isn't that how america works?

]]> frequency ass bandit http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c794251 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c794251 Religion Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:39:21 -0800 Comment by Terry Nazi Pope? You fuckwit Americans elected a president who's Grandfather bankrolled the Nazis! Your CIA bankrolled Osama Bin laden during the Russian Afhgan war and now he hits you with everything you taught him!Your CIA supported and helped Saddam Hussein into power in Iraq only to lose control of him. You supported the IRA terrorists who blew women and children to bits in Northen Ireland and in England, Now terrorisim will hit America. God has abondened America, reap the worldwind

]]> Terry http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c795030 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c795030 Religion Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:13:41 -0800 Comment by Bobbyr Terry, it's hard to argue with anything you say, except the last sentence. God is a myth, a human construct. We are in charge of our own destiny, not some supernatural daddy in the sky. If we fuck up, there's nobody to blame but ourselves.

]]> Bobbyr http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c795495 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/overseers_to_haggard_get_a_job#c795495 Religion Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:34:02 -0800