"I can't talk to you. I am forbidden from talking to the media," Haggard said Saturday evening after answering the doorbell at his home on Old Ranch Road in north Colorado Springs.

He declined to elaborate.

Haggard was named one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in the nation by Time magazine in 2005.

But, in late 2006, he was asked to leave the Colorado Springs megachurch that he founded

His expulsion came after admitting to unspecified "sexual immorality."

That confession came after he first denied knowing a former male prostitute from Denver who claimed Haggard paid him for sex nearly every month for three years.

After his ouster, Haggard was given a severance package that paid his salary through the end of 2007, the Gazette reports. He was barred from making public statements under the agreement, though he appeared to ignore that condition on several occasions, including a public plea for financial help last August.

At last report, he was living in Phoenix, Ariz., with his family with plans to study psychology in graduate school. It was unclear whether those plans have changed.

In February, New Life Church announced that it was breaking all ties with its former pastor and said it remained convinced that he should not return to any church ministry.

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