Word: televangelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, however, the soap-opera proceedings turned deadly serious for Jim Bakker. Convicted 19 days earlier of fraudulently raising $158 million in contributions from his adoring flock, the smooth-talking, scandal-plagued televangelist drew a stunning 45-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine...
...televangelist draws a stiff 45-year prison term, while the average American murderer gets only 20 years. Is the U.S. sentencing system fair or glaringly unequal...
...undecided and wavering moderates/independents--who may not be extremely liberal, but who do not identify with the Far Right either--into the Dukakis camp. This strategy, which failed Mondale in '84, is viable now due to the shift in popular opinion concerning the Far Right in light of the televangelist and Iran-Contragate scandals which have tarnished their image...
Universal has tried to calm things down, inserting a disclaimer in the movie saying it is fiction and making Scorsese available for interviews stressing his religious sincerity. Yet the protest has taken on a life of its own. Virtually every televangelist, including Pat Robertson, has mentioned the film during appeals for money. A nonsectarian group called Concerned Women for America has asked all MCA stockholders to sell the company's stock on Sept. 15. And Mother Angelica, a nun who runs the nation's largest Catholic cable network, is calling on protesters to drive with their lights...
...tears, no tortured confessions, no anguished pleas for forgiveness. As Jimmy Swaggart took the podium outside his World Ministry headquarters in Baton Rouge, La., last week, the Pentecostal preacher seemed serene. The 13-member executive presbytery of the Assemblies of God had just voted unanimously to defrock him. The televangelist responded by announcing his resignation from the church. "I wish it were possible to erase the ledger and start over again," said Swaggart. "But of course...