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The Trials of Ted Haggard

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Like a couple of other reviwers, I did not like Ted Haggard and the other so-called evangelicals. As a Libertarian I feel the Religous Right is a threat to freedom in America. After seeing Pastor Ted in the excellent "Jesus Camp" my contempt grew. So, naturally, when he was caught in a homosexual liaison including drug use, I found it laughable. Another Religous Right icon goes down. However, after watching this documentary, my feelings completely changed. Please understand, now that Pastor Ted has been exposed, he deserves some amount of critizism for his previous anti-gay doctrine. He was hypocritical and knows it. However, he is not alone. Most people, religous or not, have skeletons in their closet and, in life, we all, at some point, play the hypocrite. Life, by its very nature, is contradictory and is defined by change. While I am not a christian or religous, when I finished watching The Trials of Ted Haggard I felt what can be described as christian compassion. I never thought that someone like Pastor Ted would open the window to his life after such a humiliating downfall. This, to me, is a sign of character. Most so-called conservatives when confronting open secrets will deny, deny, deny (think of Sen. Craig). Pastor Ted opens to the cameras his new life and all its trails, ups and downs. I was shocked. Here is a man shunned by his community, living in hotels, and trying to find gainful employment to support his family. His openness about his feelings about everything that happened is quite moving. You will not be disappointed with this documentary. While I believe there still is some contradiction in how Pastor Ted views his homosexuality even now, as I stated earlier, that's life. I believe this documentary will suprise a lot of people. I hope we will remember, if there is indeed a god, that we all fall short of the glory of God and that those confessing to truly love and follow the teachings of the man known as Jesus of Nazareth, will remember the essence of christian love and for whom the man gave his life. Thank you.

This documentary actually brought me to tears. It was well done and emotionally riveting. I saw an extremely well meaning man living a public life and living in the shadows with a secret that, if found out, would ruin just about everything he had worked for in his life. Before seeing this documentary I really didn't care much about Ted Haggard's trials and tribulations. Being a supporter of Gay & Lesbian Rights (as I am a supporter of all equal human and animal rights) I had been appalled by what I saw as a two-faced fraud doing a lot of harm to a group of people who had never done him any harm. After seeing the documentary, I walked away with a huge dose of respect for him for picking himself up and trying to find his place in life and for his family for sticking by his side when all of his "so-called" friends and Christian community wouldn't.

I'm not sure why Ms. Pelosi decided to do this documentary, but I'm glad she did. It was pure, honest and sincere. I loved it.

So the 3 stars is only because in the end, it's an interesting documentary. If the movie was bad i'd give this whole thing zero stars, but it's good so I can't.

The problem is the packaging/selling. It's about $20 after shipping, but it's only a FORTY FIVE MINUTE MOVIE. I dunno about you, but if it's half a movie I expect to pay half the price.

Also, it's not even a legit DVD press from a factory. It's a burned DVD by amazon with the purple bottom, not silver. You could literally do the same thing at your house with the torrent and a blank DVD and it'd be NO different.

So until amazon gets it together, I can't recommend you buy it at this price...

I found this to be good. I read his wife's book and had a lot of mixed feelings. I just can't understand why people who claim to ge Christian treat a fellow person the way they did to Ted and his family.

Ted Haggard didn't make an extraordinary amount of money off of the people from the church that he founded. During his ministry he thought that his homosexual feelings were wrong and struggled with them and lost. He still reads the Bible and expects it's principles to work. He did deceive his congregation about his homosexual tendencies because he knew the judgmental type of people that he surrounded himself with and ministered to. He wasn't a con artist...he was a disillusioned man! I know that he shouldn't be guiding people anymore, but as a human being with only a bible degree, a fallen reputation and living in a poor economy...he can't get a job! The Christians he knew wouldn't lend him the cloak off their backs or feed him their leftover table scraps. Maybe they didn't know that the outcasts were the very people Jesus had compassion for. After the priests and the Levites pass by, he did get help from people he didn't know. It's just another of the many instances of Christians behaving badly. But, isn't this pretty much what we've come to expect? I give this documentary 5 stars for accuracy.

It is hard, as an atheist, not to delight in the fall of such a powerful voice of non-reason. But that delight quickly vanished when I started watching as a human being.

This movie is definitely worth watching!

This video twists the truth of what happened at New Life Church. It makes a man who lied and cheated look like a hero. I find it odd that it does not address the victims of what Ted did. It only addresses him and his family.

I ordered The Trials of Ted Haggard. The content was good what I could see of it, for most of the DVD was not in good condition and I could not watch it!!!

This is a disturbing portrait of a married man stuggling with his sexuality - it challenges all of us to question the meaning of the word 'forgivess'.

The DVD was blank for the greater part of it. I do not know even where to return it. I am not happy about the money I spent for nothing.