Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s--a movement that his current rivals were alarmingly distant from. Today, Jackson is the only candidate who openly welcomes gays and lesbians into his coalition, welcoming to Congress the current Lesbian and Gay Rights Bill, which forbids discrimination based on sexual orientation. On the AIDS question, Jackson advocates more federal funding for research and treatment. Only Jackson, among all the presidential candidates, marched in last year's gay march on Washington...
...point did Swaggart utter a word about what his sin was. But the entire world was already learning about sexual indiscretions committed over an extended period by this specialist in denouncing sins of the flesh. Swaggart stood accused of strange, secret involvements with prostitutes in sleazy motels. His own church body acted after being confronted with incriminating photographs...
...Roberts kicked off last year's proceedings by announcing to an incredulous public a divine mandate to raise $8 million, or God would "call me home." Then it was Jim and Tammy Bakker and the revelation of Jim's payment of $265,000 in ministry 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...
...throwback to the fire-and-brimstone preachers of old, Swaggart was ever attacking sin, especially sexual immorality and such manifestations as rock 'n' roll, through which First Cousin and Childhood Chum Jerry Lee Lewis had won fame. Pornography, another pet target, constituted a form of "addiction," he proclaimed. Those who sell it "represent the worst our great nation has to offer, the scum on an otherwise tranquil pond...
Would the tireless accuser himself ever be caught in compromising circumstances? Aware of the close scrutiny under which prominent preachers live, he observed only nine months ago that for him sexual straying was impossible. His wife Frances, he told TIME, "is with me all the time. She goes to every crusade we go to. And if she doesn't go, I have several people who go with me. I'm never alone. I'm never by myself...