Word: swaggart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...GALA event continues for three full days of old-time religious spiritual harmony highlighted by the acts of megastars Jimmy Swaggart and Pat Robertson. Yet although "Oral Aid" proves successful from a spiritual standpoint, in the end the event manages to raise only $6 million...
...Swaggart, in Los Angeles last week to launch a revival meeting, quickly challenged Grutman to reveal any dirty linen the lawyer might have "to the whole world." Grutman produced an article in Spin magazine reporting former employees' sometimes vague accusations that Swaggart had spent lavish sums on his family and had used donations for causes other than their original purposes...
Joining the attacks was Bakker's friend Oral Roberts, who warned without mentioning Swaggart by name that "Satan has put something in your heart that you're better than anybody else." At a Tennessee nightclub Swaggart's cousin, Rock 'n' Roller Jerry Lee Lewis, leaped to the defense: "Jimmy Swaggart don't have to lie about nothing." After some tensions, Falwell agreed that Swaggart had "no designs...
...have to commit hara- kiri now" but allowed that he could probably make do with some "psychiatric treatment." Even though the gift met the divinely ordained total that Roberts had announced, he continued his fast in the Prayer Tower and asked his flock for more cash. Roberts' performance caused Swaggart to lament, "The gospel of Jesus Christ has never sunk to such a level...
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...