On this day in 1988 ..... Scandal

[auntAgonist]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/21/newsid_2565000/2565197.stm


1988: TV evangelist quits over sex scandal
Jimmy Swaggart, America's leading television evangelist, has resigned from his ministry after it was revealed he had been consorting with a prostitute.

In front of a congregation of 7,000 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he sobbed and confessed to "moral failure" without actually going into any detail.

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The resignation will also displease Republican presidential contender Rev Pat Robertson. He is currently trying to drum up support in the "Bible Belt" southern states ahead of the Super Tuesday primaries on 8 March.

Rev Robertson has threatened to sue anyone who calls him a TV evangelist and prefers to be described as a businessman.
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[treestar]

1. It's so widespread among these fundies that I even forgot about that

I remember when he was running his mouth, though. And Tammy Faye and Jim Baker. They had a sex scandal too, come to think of it. What is it with these people?

[auntAgonist]

2. I guess

you can do anything you want if you believe you can get forgiveness for it?


:shrug:
doesn't matter if you hurt people along the way.


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