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Tiger Woods' Pastor Speaks Out: 'Forgive Each Other, And It Will Work Out'

First Posted: 4/11/10 Updated: 5/25/11

Tiger Woods Pastor Ricky Kirton
Tiger Woods' wedding pastor speaks out.

TIger Woods' Wedding pastor has finally opened up about the golfer's sex scandal. He told People that he "started to pray" for the couple after Woods' post-Thanksgiving car accident.

Rev. Ricky Kirton has not seen Woods or wife Elin Nordegren (PHOTOS) since they wed in 2004, but that didn't stop him from offering advice to the pair. "Forgive each other. Be there for each other, and it will work out," he told the magazine.

Kirton did not discuss the specifics of any of Woods' alleged affairs, from a porn star who may have worked as an escort (NSFW) to another porn star who is wanted in Washington state. No mention was made of Rachel Uchitel (PHOTOS), the first alleged mistress about whom Woods reportedly had an All-Star sex fantasy, or Playboy model Loredana Jolie (PHOTOS), who says Tiger had sexual encounters with men and described his sex fantasies as "not normal."


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TIger Woods' Wedding pastor has finally opened up about the golfer's sex scandal. He told People that he "started to pray" for the couple after Woods' post-Thanksgiving car accident. Rev. Ricky Kirto...
TIger Woods' Wedding pastor has finally opened up about the golfer's sex scandal. He told People that he "started to pray" for the couple after Woods' post-Thanksgiving car accident. Rev. Ricky Kirto...
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HUFFPOST SUPER USER
Dbos
Single payer universal health insurance agent
11:55 AM on 02/11/2010
misleading headline again
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pinkpantheroz
Keeping the B***** honest
09:10 AM on 02/11/2010
Something has been niggling me about this whole affair - that is, how come the Airbags in the very expensive SUV didn't deploy? Maybe another recall????­??
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pinkpantheroz
Keeping the B***** honest
09:07 AM on 02/11/2010
I'd really love to know how a Buddhist can have a Pastor!
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littlepuffycloud
I propose a toast to my self control...
11:45 AM on 02/10/2010
'Advise?' Oh please, mr preacherMa­n...The best advise would be for Tiger to simply be a man and a good model for his kids and keep his pants zipped.
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Lilly-G
09:30 AM on 02/10/2010
'Forgive each other' - what does Tiger need to forgive Elin for? Typical religious approach, love will solve everything - hardly.
09:09 AM on 02/10/2010
Tiger doesnt have a pastor.
The guy married them.That does not make him Tigers pastor.
A pastor is your spiritual leader and adviser.
He said he hasnt seen Tiger since he married them.
That is a preacher.
Maybe if Tiger had a pastor he wouldnt be in the shape he is in.
Lets get it straight.
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invirginia
A higher double-standard.
09:20 AM on 02/10/2010
Yeah, because people who have pastors never give in to their natural drives, right?
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Lilly-G
09:28 AM on 02/10/2010
absolutely never, hehehe
09:01 AM on 02/10/2010
HuffPost, this is getting fukking ridiculous­. If there's nothing new stop wasting our time with this BS. This is nothing but an excuse for you to put up that long list that every Tiger Woods article concludes with.

"Tiger Woods Caddy Visits Mother in Law in Hospital"

Reports from New Zealand have spotted caddy Steve Williams pulling into a local hospital. Williams is the caddy of disgraced golf superstar Tiger Woods.

Tiger has been linked with blah blah blah blah blah blah.....

It's getting old.
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pinkpantheroz
Keeping the B***** honest
09:16 AM on 02/11/2010
Agree 100% and fanned
08:26 AM on 02/10/2010
Who cares what this guy thinks? I can imagine the next story - he guy who parked Tiger's car thinks...
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NYC123
07:53 AM on 02/10/2010
Most married guys masturbate with fantasies of hot chicks -- could be a neighbor, someone at work, a friend of the wife, a starlet or a favorite magazine, etc.. Gals probably do the same thing! Tiger wanted the real thing and had access! Let's give Tiger a break -- and us? A break from Mary Palm! Lola.
07:42 AM on 02/10/2010
Pastor hasn't seen Tiger since his wedding, huh? Hmmmmmm...­.. Can you say, Is there a confession booth available?
07:21 AM on 02/10/2010
Still trawling for Tiger Wood residues?
07:11 AM on 02/10/2010
This too shall pass. Tthe media will have worn the story out. The hoodrats will find another prea and the game of gulf will move forward. Americans live for sensationa­lism and have a way of bring it up from for one person and convenient­ly forgetting about it for another. Listen up people, Tiger Woods is his own industry. He makes millions of $'s for many people. Those people could care less about his personal life. Ask Bill Clinton, Kobe Bryant, David Letterman, Marv Albert, Jim McGreevey, Elliott Spitzer, Rudy Guiliani, Alex Rodriquez, Morgan Freeman, Steve McNair (cost him his life) Matthew Knowles, Governor Mark Sanders, Michael Jordan, Rush Limbaugh, John McCain, John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Jimmy Swaggert, Michael Phelps, Michael Vick (has his own reality show) Mark McQuire, Jude Law, Chris Brown, Clarence Thomas, John Ensign, Mel Gibson, Michael Richards.
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ShakeYourComplacency
Commonsense Progressive
07:02 AM on 02/10/2010
Forgive "each other?" What did Elin do wrong? Seems to me that the husband needs to straighten up, not the other way around. Typical of the church, never fix a problem, just to tell the wife to stay no matter what.

I personally believe that an affair is not the end. You can work through it. But honestly, this is beyond the pale. He screwed around with so many women, and lied to her so many times, all in public, that I just don't see how you forget all that and start playing house again. Sometimes it's healthy and necessary to just move on.

If she takes him back, it's a win for him. He gets to be a father and husband, golf, and go home to a wife who publicly proved her loyalty to him. For her? It's a public humiliatio­n, she'll look at the same house with same furniture, same life, same spouse walking in the door, and be reminded every day of it. Sure, you can stay for the kids, but is that enough?

This is like the OJ Simpson of the cheating world. When the OJ case went public, men learned that domestic violence is not that big of a deal, he won his court case and moved on. Today, men learned that no matter how much you cheat and lie on your wife, there's a good chance that after an initial annoyance, you canpark your car in the driveway again, like nothing happened.
05:49 AM on 02/10/2010
Tiger Woods' Pastor Speaks Out:

"yeah, he f***ed me too"
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invirginia
A higher double-standard.
09:21 AM on 02/10/2010
lol
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booker52
avid reader
05:39 AM on 02/10/2010
Another person trying to get their 15 mins of fame.