For the large evangelical churches of Denver, Colorado, 2006 was a rocky year (pun intended).
Just a month after the highly publicized resignation of Ted Haggard, pastor of the 14,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs, came news that Paul Barnes, founder and pastor of Grace Chapel in the Denver suburb of Englewood, was leaving his pastorate.
The cause was that he admitted to having had sexual relations with men over his 28 years of his Grace Chapel ministry.
Although such churches generally decry homosexuality, to his credit, Barnes had not spoken out on same-sex marriage and other such issues in the way Haggard had done.
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