Word: televangelists
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...evangelist Oral Roberts, whose career has had more ups and downs than the water slide at the now defunct theme park. It has been mostly downs since he launched his desperate give-millions-lest-I-die fund-raising drive in 1987. In the past year the Tulsa televangelist has laid off 10% of his staff and folded his cherished City of Faith hospital and medical school. In search of a more promising venture, Roberts decided to take a bold gamble and offer $6.5 million to obtain PTL's cable-TV operation, now known as the Inspirational Network...
What happened to televangelist Pat Robertson, owner of the Christian Broadcasting Network and seemingly a natural bidder to resurrect PTL-TV? Robertson made two separate bids, one for the network, the other for the whole package, but both were rejected as inadequate by the bankruptcy trustee. Rival televangelist Jerry Falwell, who owns a small cable outfit, got burned while running PTL and stayed out of the fray...
Most Prurient Preachers. Holy Hypocrisy! America's first televangelist Jim Bakker paid some $265,000 to cover up a sexual misadventure. Later he was convicted of misspending millions of followers' dollars. Rival preacher Jimmy Swaggart called the Bakker scandal a cancer. That was before Swaggart was photographed visiting a prostitute named Debra Murphree. According to Murphree, he was "kind of perverted . . . I wouldn't want him around my children...
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...