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...without question, the most dramatic sermon ever aired on television. There stood Jimmy Swaggart, 52, the king of evangelistic video, ready to confront the ugly rumors that were encircling his busy, buzzing gospel conglomerate. As he approached the pulpit, the octagonal Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge, La., was packed for the occasion with 8,000 worshipers, 1,000 of them standees, while followers nationwide watched the weekly telecast. This day there was to be none of Swaggart's trademark piano riffing or gospel singing, none of his jig stepping, strutting or shouting. Clad in a severe suit...
...funds to cover up sexual straying. Next came the revelations of the Bakkers' morass of financial mismanagement and personal aggrandizement at PTL. Suddenly watching evangelists became a national pastime; the place to catch them was as likely to be on the evening news or Nightline as in the electronic pulpit...
Despite that ostentatious omission, Robertson cannot get far from the pulpit in the public's mind. Even Fundamentalists and Evangelicals, when asked if they are more or less likely to vote for him in view of his former status as a clergyman, answer "less likely" by 42% to 25%. Among all registered voters, the split is more negative, 46% to 19%. Yet Robertson can still be an important political player in some states. He has shown a great talent for squeezing the maximum turnout from his pool of sympathizers. Robertson also hopes to attract socially conservative Democrats who think...
...will step out of this pulpit for an undetermined, indeterminate period of time," Swaggart said. "We will leave that in the hands of the Lord...
...Assemblies of God last spring, has been ordained as a minister in the Tulsa-based Faith Christian Fellowship International. Bakker, who lost his ministry after it was learned that he had had sex with a church secretary, did not indicate when he will try to return to the pulpit...