{"id":2686,"date":"2009-03-20T12:42:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T12:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2009\/03\/ted-haggard-and-gayle-to-appea.html"},"modified":"2009-03-20T12:42:08","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T12:42:08","slug":"ted-haggard-and-gayle-to-appea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2009\/03\/ted-haggard-and-gayle-to-appea.html","title":{"rendered":"Ted Haggard and Wife to Appear on &#8216;Divorce Court&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"haggard.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/import\/imgs\/haggard.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"185\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>As the death of his career continues, Ted Haggard just keeps moving toward the light&#8211;the television light. Since he admitted to homosexual acts and stepped down as pastor of a Colorado megachurch and as president of the National Association of Evangelicals, Haggard has appeared in a HBO documentary and with his wife Gayle on &#8220;Oprah.&#8221; According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/03\/19\/ted-haggard-wife-gayle-to_n_176934.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post<\/a>, The Haggards are in Los Angeles this week taping the April 1 installment of the syndicated show &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.divorcecourt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Divorce Court<\/a>.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe show normally features couples who are at odds, who subject themselves to the moral dressings-down and legally binding decisions of former Cleveland Heights, Ohio municipal judge Lynn Toler. There&#8217;s no expectation that the Haggards are divorcing. Rather, they&#8217;ll discuss with Toler how their marriage survived his philandering.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nIn January, Haggard told the AP that Gayle knew that &#8220;my sexual identity is complex and can&#8217;t be put into stereotypical boxes,&#8221; and was fine with that. But Gayle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/dailynews\/columnists\/howard_gensler\/20090128_Tattle__Ted_and_Gayle_Haggard_visit_with_Oprah.html\" target=\"_blank\">admitted to Oprah<\/a> that when she heard of his visits to a male prostitute, she asked Ted, &#8220;Who are you?&#8221; It&#8217;s natural that Gayle would want to know who her husband really is. Do the rest of us really need to?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.locatetv.com\/tv\/divorce-court\/1696630\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.locatetv.com\/tv\/divorce-court\/1696630\/351x85_belief.gif\" alt=\"Divorce Court at LocateTV.com\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the death of his career continues, Ted Haggard just keeps moving toward the light&#8211;the television light. Since he admitted to homosexual acts and stepped down as pastor of a Colorado megachurch and as president of the National Association of Evangelicals, Haggard has appeared in a HBO documentary and with his wife Gayle on &#8220;Oprah.&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities","category-entertainment","category-politics","category-television"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ted Haggard and Wife to Appear on &#039;Divorce Court&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2009\/03\/ted-haggard-and-gayle-to-appea.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ted Haggard and Wife to Appear on &#039;Divorce Court&#039;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As the death of his career continues, Ted Haggard just keeps moving toward the light&#8211;the television light. 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