Thursday, July 05, 2007

From the Collection Plate

Mike Jones, the "masseur" who brought down the "Rev." Ted Haggard, reveals a detail I hadn't considered before, as he gives a massage to a reporter:

Jones said this was the first massage he'd given since going public. As I took off my pants, Jones asked if he could take off his shirt. His 50-year-old physique hid his age well, except for his eyes, which looked tired as he talked of his past (he first got paid for sex while in his teens) and patrons, including preachers like Haggard who made up 15 percent of his clientele and paid his $200 fee in ones and fives. "It's sad," he said as he worked his hands down my back. "I knew it was from the collection plate."


More pathos here.

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