This was compassionate assistance. It was to help him move forward, not a settlement to keep him quiet.

Rev. Brady Boyd, senior pastor at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colo., on paying a 20-year-old man to not go public about his affair with prostitute-patronizing, meth-using, “completely heterosexual” former pastor Ted Haggard.

I bet the Catholics sure wish they had coined the term “compassionate assistance” for their payment plans that cost them $607 million in 2007 alone.

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