Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jackson, a Baptist minister with strong support in black churches, the issue is particularly touchy because for years he has been the subject of unsubstantiated rumors. Some of his backers worry about his vulnerability on "character" questions. As Hart's campaign was collapsing two weeks ago, several advisers met with Jackson in Chicago. According to one of his aides, they discussed possible tactics in the event similar questions were raised about Jackson, and he was warned against any appearance of impropriety...
...sacrifices his right of privacy. Congressman Jack Kemp, who has had to deny 20-year-old rumors of sexual misconduct, rejected the Times inquiry as "beneath the dignity of a presidential candidate." Vice President George Bush warned the press against "unseemly inquiries into private behavior." Pat Robertson, the other Baptist clergyman seeking the presidency, said national candidates should be held, at the very least, to the same standards of conduct as U.S. Marine guards stationed at the Moscow embassy...
Those declarations were made only three days after fellow TV Preacher Jerry Falwell made sure that Bakker would never minister again at his former domain in Fort Mill, S.C. Bakker had relinquished control of PTL (for Praise the Lord or People That Love) to Falwell, a Fundamentalist Baptist, after confessing that he had paid $265,000 in hush money to cover up his adultery. But prior to last week's board meeting at PTL, Bakker had wired Falwell that it seemed time for a comeback...
Falwell and the board launched an investigation into the new sexual charges against Bakker that had been leveled, without public documentation, by Baptist Televangelist John Ankerberg of Chattanooga, Tenn. Falwell disclosed last week that part of Bakker's hush-money payment was made by PTL and that the remainder was provided by a major PTL contractor, Roe Messner of Wichita. At Dortch's request, Messner then billed PTL for the sum, but Falwell described that as a mere "error in judgment...
...seven minutes," says Dr. Janet Schwartz of Women's Health Centers. The three W.H.C. clinics in California take pains to ameliorate the two banes of the gynecological exam: icy stirrups on the examining table are covered by foot warmers and vaginal specula are warmed. The clinic at Georgia Baptist Medical Center in Atlanta even offers a small gym and Tupperware-like health parties at which women get to throw questions at a physician. Above all, the centers claim that their largely female staffs are able to treat women without the impersonality and condescension of traditional practices...