Ted Haggard is back. The disgraced former pastor and his loyal wife Gayle (her new book is out on why she stayed with him) have incorporated a new church -- sort of.

In 2006 Rev. Haggard, then head of the National Association of Evangelicals and senior pastor of Colorado Spring's booming New Life Church, was discovered hiding a life of gay sex and meth use. The couple stayed out of the limelight for a while then two years ago, he returned to the preaching trail, giving talks at churches around the country.

So, he told The Colorado Gazette, the Haggards incorporated their Colorado Springs home at the new church of St. James...

primarily "to keep the accounting in order" for money the Haggards received speaking at evangelical churches across the country. The St. James provides a tax structure for the Haggards to be reimbursed for out-of-pocket expenses they incur while speaking at other churches.

The couple returned to their hometown after staying away for several years in accord with the agreement he made with his New Life board. But last fall, according to The Gazette, he began holding prayer meetings and at least one former congregant told the paper he'd be happy to pray with Haggard. Said Richard Tegtmeier,

Ted is a very effective teacher. The extreme difficulty he's been through has deepened and enriched his life.

However, the news is bringing out the snark in online responses as it moves across the Internet from Christianity Today, where someone suggested the church be named "Second Church of the Hypocrite," to Huffington Post where a poster noted,

So... Christians are the most forgiving group out there ... or the most gullible.

Do even fallen pastors get a great second chance? Or has Haggard, even if he finds personal forgiveness, lost the moral authority to preach?