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"It may not change the way people vote, but I feel I did what I had to do. I needed to expose what was happening. You can't say one thing and do another. There are consequences to our actions."

Jones fails lie-detector test
Mike Jones failed his much-publicized polygraph test this morning. Though it was conducted off the air and off the premises of Peter Boyles's talk show, where Jones's accusations against Haggard were first broadcast, the test was arranged by Boyles's program. Announcing the results on the air, the polygraph administrator said that Jones's results "indicated deception." Specifically, the administrator said, Jones indicated deception in saying yes to two questions: "Did you lie when you said you had a three-year relationship with Ted Haggard?" and "Did you lie when you said you had sexual contact with Ted Haggard?" Jones said he did not lie in his answers, and that he may have failed because he only slept for two hours the previous night. He said he may submit himself to another round of polygraph testing.

Haggard on Sunday: "We pray that lies would be exposed"
Ted Haggard's Sunday morning sermon last week began with a prayer "that lies would be exposed." In New Life Church's podcast of the October 29 sermon, among Haggard's first words are, "Father, give us grace and mercy. Father, help us this next week and a half as we go into national elections, and Lord we pray for our country. Father, we pray that lies would be exposed. We pray that deception would be exposed. Father, we pray that wisdom would come upon our electorate and that they would think with clarity and with decisiveness, and Lord, that we would be a model for the whole world to see how people can disagree passionately but the rule of law … will prevail."

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