But seriously, Haggard wouldn't have resigned and all if there was not some truth to the allegations.  He could have stuck it out and said "not true" and, if there was no truth, you can be sure the media would have winkled that out.

Here's the link to a 2:35 video from Channel 9, Denver, showing him and his wife stopping to talk to a reporter "on their way to an appointment."  (don't worry about the poor quality, it gets better about 20 or 30 seconds in).

Today's story from Pastor Haggard:

"We're glad today to see he failed the polygraph."

"I did not have sex with him.

re the voice mails:
  "I did call him.

Why?
  "To buy meth.

What did you do with the meth?
  "I threw it away;  I only had it a short time.  I had it but I didn't use it.  I only bought it once.  I was tempted.

Did you ever use meth?
  "No.

How did you come to know him?
  "I went to him for a massage.

How did you get referred to him?
  "By the hotel in Denver where I was staying.

i'm with scribe, had haggard not done something, of a sexual nature, he wouldn't have resigned. if, as he claims, he only bought crystal from jones, just the once, and didn't use it, why resign?

of course, this raises the interesting question: what on earth prompted him, out of the blue, to buy crystal meth from this guy? what, he woke up one morning and decided that was going to be the day he descended into hell?

How terribly sad is it that this father of 5 and husband, and leader of 30 million evangelicals had to come out this way.  

I think polygraphs are useless and wonder why they are inadmissable, yet so relied upon.  I think muscle man slipped the reverend some wood, on a regular basis.  I find it odd that he would find a masseuse that would provide him drugs and that there was nothing sexual happening.  

Nothing wrong with being gay, but there is a lot wrong psychologically and morally to put your family in this situation.

When the person doing the massage is male, it's "masseur";  female, it's "masseuse".

Even I, someone whose French is so limited it's only able to get a glass of wine and trouble, know that....

  A minister who says he was curious about meth looked like  so rather than ask the local police DARE unit to give a presentation at the church buys it illegally to satisfy his curiousity but also admits he was "tempted."

  The minister then basically concedes without hardly a whimper resigning one position and taking a leave of absence form the other just as serious questions about the accusers credibility inevitably surface.

  It seems to then to turn into a situation where the pastoe is admitting buying drugs from the masseur abit the masseur says he only knew people who could get them.

  I have little doubt they are both lying to some greater or lesser degree.

  Masseur will get his 15 minutes of fame and maybe a little pocket money.

Haggard could easily have decided to see a massage practitioner without any specific intent for there to be sex.  Then, during the massage, he became aroused or the practitioner helped him to become aroused and Haggard didn't object.  And, this led to the massage practitioner including the genitals of Haggard.  Different massages probably had different degrees of sexual contact.  If Haggard wasn't stimulating the practitioner, Haggard wouldn't have regarded his own conduct as sex, even if the massage practitioner at times had done oral sex on Haggard.

Over time, Haggard knew that the encounters were resulting in sexual stimulation for him, and to promote that, asked about, obtained and used the crystal meth.

This scenario explains all the evidence: Haggart's part denials and part admissions, and the fact that Jones fails some questions on the polygraph.