Jones weighs in on “Why Priests Hire Male Prostitutes” for the Daily Beast.
The July 19 piece was hooked to Kevin Gray, the Connecticut priest who allegedly embezzled $1.3 million, lavishing at least some of it on prostitutes. During the time he worked as an escort in Denver, Jones estimates, at least 15 percent of his clients were connected with a church.
Like Haggard, most of these men don’t use their real names with the escorts they hire, and I’m sure they feel that part of what they’re paying for is anonymity. And for the most part, they are correct — there is an unwritten understanding that all encounters are confidential. I think back to all the clergy, politicians, sports personalities, and actors whose careers I could have ruined, but that was not me and not what I was in the business of doing.

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