Word: bakker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chat filled up the time. One woman recounted the woes of a dreary day following her state's legislative delegation through a series of raucous St. Patrick's Day appearances. A fellow from a small wire service told a joke about the scandal surrounding Rev. Jim Bakker. "He's a lay preacher." "What?" "He got laid, get it>" It fell very flat among the correspondents' business suits...
...worship services and TV shows, it was almost business as usual last week, even though Dortch turned out to be an awkward, stiff emcee who will have a rough time holding the Bakker audience. In his first outing at the 2,000-member Heritage Village Church after Bakker's departure, Dortch said, "We'll all have to dig a little deeper...
...Falwell era at PTL began, the latest episode of the Oral Roberts story neared its conclusion. It was on Bakker's show that Roberts said he needed only $1.3 million to reach his death-preventing money goal by the end of March. That apparently inspired a gift for precisely that amount last week from Collins, owner of two Florida dog-racing tracks with $50 million last year in gambling proceeds. Evangelicals consider gambling a sin, and the racetrack connection upset some old-time Roberts supporters...
...biggest of the big-time Christian TV entrepreneurs, Pat Robertson, was uninvolved in the Bakker scandal. Nonetheless, after the incident became public, a survey for Robertson noted a slight dip in his standing as a potential candidate. In polls he has been running at a flat 6% to 8%, trailing George Bush, Robert Dole and Jack Kemp. The gospel TV controversy does nothing to help Robertson, and appears quite likely to increase nationwide skepticism about Christian telecasters and weaken Robertson's appeal...
First it was Oral Roberts, announcing that God would take his life if backers did not send in millions. Then came Jim Bakker, admitting he paid heavy "blackmail" to cover up sexual sin. As fellow TV Stars Jimmy Swaggart and Jerry Falwell joined the controversy, a bystander, Pat Robertson, stood to lose the most from the Evangelicals' questionable deeds. See RELIGION...