Opinion | Calhoun: Wake-up Call

Wake-Up Call: Stand by your man — even if he’s Ted Haggard

Don't forget: Today, Ted Haggard and his wife, Gayle, appear on Divorce Court, to discuss how revelations of Haggard's extra-curricular (and intra-sex) activities affected the marriage. On the show, the disgraced former New Life pastor says he wanted his wife to divorce him, but she refused, even though he said...
By Patricia Calhoun
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Don’t forget: Today, Ted Haggard and his wife, Gayle, appear on Divorce Court, to discuss how revelations of Haggard’s extra-curricular (and intra-sex) activities affected the marriage.

On the show, the disgraced former New Life pastor says he wanted his wife to divorce him, but she refused, even though he said he’d become “toxic.” According to Haggard, his wife told him, “No way. I’m not going to do that.”

Not when going on Divorce Court is a much more civilized way to work things out.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12’s public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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