Ted Haggard on Wife Swap

I just finished watching the Rose Parade with my wife, and I caught an advertisement for the latest season of ABC's reality show, Wife Swap. This season features a long list of C-list celebrities, including Twisted Sister front man Dee Snider, Pro-Wrestler Mick Foley, and --most amusingly-- the meth-using, homophobic-yet-bisexual, fundamentalist pastor Ted Haggard.

As the Huffington Post reports:

According to ColoradoSprings.com, Ted Haggard, the pastor and former president of the National Association of Evangelicals who was ousted after admitting to doing drugs and having a relationship with a male prostitute, will be trading spouses with actor Gary Busey on an upcoming episode of "Celebrity Wife Swap."

Of course, this isn't Haggard's first foray into shameless self-promotion since he lost his job as pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, CO in 2006:

Haggard and his wife Gayle appeared on a 2009 episode of "Divorce Court," and featured in a TLC documentary about his fall and rise, called "Ted Haggard: Scandalous." He also had a documentary on HBO, and has appeared on countless talk shows, including "Oprah."

Don't worry though.  His extremely public gay-sex-and-drug scandal hasn't cause Haggard to lose his sense of humility. In a recent interview with The Christian Post, Haggard likens himself to no less than Jesus Christ:

“I don't think there's anybody that I know of that more reflects the resurrection of Christ than I do right now,” Haggard said.

Now, I'm no Bible scholar, but I think I would remember that part of the Gospel. I'm expecting a gold-medal winning performance for the mental gymnastics Haggard will have to perform.

I usually don't watch this type of garbage reality TV, but I might make an exception for tomorrow night's episode. Apparently Busey is a Born-Again Christian and is also a pastor. We may even be treated to some rootin'-tootin', duelin'-proselytizin'. Either way, it'll be entertaining to see who can appear less crazy: