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Alexandra Pelosi Interview: The Story Behind Her New Ted Haggard Documentary

January 26, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country

Fallen evangelical leader Ted Haggard is making the media rounds this week—doing Oprah and Larry King—in advance of a new documentary about him that debuts on HBO on Thursday. You can read my interview with Haggard, but just as interesting is filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi's story of how she got access to him after the scandal and how she came to make her movie. Here are clips from my interview with Pelosi at HBO's New York headquarters earlier this month.

Alexandra Pelosi on how and why she reconnected with Ted Haggard after he was felled by a gay sex and drugs scandal in 2006.

Part 1: Getting Back in Touch After Scandal

  

  

Pelosi on how she decided to make a movie about what Haggard called his year in exile after the scandal.

Part 2: Idea for Post-Scandal Documentary

  

  

Pelosi on pitching the idea of a movie to Haggard.

Part 3: What Alexandra Pelosi Hopes to Accomplish

  

  

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When Haggard's behavior came to light and he was ditched by his church, there was a lot of handwringing over how he was treated. Many people complained that this was hardly an example of "Christian love" that would be expected. One wonders if anyone actually reads the Bible anymore, because Paul said to the church in Corinth (1 Cor 5) that believers are not to associate - or even eat - with a person who is a Christian and is sexually immoral or a drunkard, a liar, swindler, etc. Paul specifically says that it is people OUTSIDE the faith that believers are not supposed to judge since God will judge us heathens. Paul tells the Church to "Remove the evil person from among you." THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is what the Bible teaches.

Jennifer Smiith of CA 5:19PM March 13, 2009

GOP is racists people. They constructed slavery. They don't care. They even make Latino's, Mexicans check other. Which means they would be counted as white. White and GOP knows all the tricks. Since GOP knows the ends and outs. We(Democrats) know gangsta. May be ignorant, but hey. Looks who's calling the kettle black. lol... That's a good one.

Mike of IL 3:11PM February 17, 2009

Haggard is living in a world of denial. He is a gay man who can't accept it because of religion's condemning posture. He will come to peace with who he is if he ditches religion.

Gerald of CA 2:18AM February 16, 2009

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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