A gay sex scandal toppled the NAE president while he lobbied against same-sex marriage

Evidence

In 2006, male escort Mike Jones went public with the news that Colorado Springs megachurch pastor Ted Haggard had been paying him for sex for the past three years—the approximate period during which Haggard had been serving as head of the National Association of Evangelicals. Haggard, the pastor of the muscular-angel-bedecked New Life Church, had at the time been lobbying for Colorado Amendment 43, a ban on same-sex marriage, and it was Haggard’s hypocrisy that prompted Jones to go public. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 628

Categorization

• CANDY: A compact, striking fact: the head of the National Association of Evangelicals was paying a male escort for sex while pushing a same-sex-marriage ban.
• XREF: connects to: The NAE ousted its chief lobbyist over moderation on Muslims, climate, and gay unions — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 510
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The NAE ousted its chief lobbyist over moderation on Muslims, climate, and gay unions — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 510