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Sex, Lies and TelevangelistsSex, Lies and TelevangelistsThe DISH Vol. 7 No 38 Phantom Scribbler 9-24-04 The Catholic Church homosexual and pedophile scandal, which received news coverage ad nauseam, rocked religious and secular communities. A recent not- as-well-publicized Church announcement indicated many of the lawsuits, which resulted from priestly improprieties, have been settled. Skeptics and agnostics tend to view celibacy and male-dominated priesthood as breeding grounds for homosexuality . But, is the type of illegal and salacious behavior displayed by Catholic priests and exposed by the media really an aberration? There have been lots of sex and financial scandals in the Protestant Church. The most publicized involved heterosexual acts between consenting adults, most notable among these are the adultery, lies and financial swindles of Jimmy Swaggart, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker and Rev. Henry Lyons. A Baptist, Lyons, the lone black among these crooks, was convicted of swindling more that $4 million from companies that wanted to sell life insurance, credit cards and burial plots to church members. Lyons and his mistress spent the ill-gotten gains living like the rich and famous. In none of these church scandals has there been a hint of homosexuality. This could change, if mainstream media tells the tale of the televangelist and his lover. For the past eight years, the president of Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), televangelist Paul Crouch, has managed, through bribes and closed court hearings, to keep his alleged homosexual liaison with a former TBN employee and client of a TBN-affiliated drug treatment facility out of mainstream media. The Los Angeles Times recently ran a story about Crouch's efforts to keep his alleged lover, Enoch Lonnie Ford, quiet. Ford, who has received a sizeable chunk of cash to keep quiet, has written a book. Unpublished, the manuscript is titled "Arrowhead," an apparent reference to the TBN-owned cabin in the San Bernardino Mountains where the homosexual assignation occurred. Crouch, a former partner of Jim Bakker, is a world-renowned fundamentalist televangelist that has consistently preached homosexuality is an unpardonable sin. Revelations of a homosexual tryst would certainly bring Crouch's remarkable career to an end. It would also take a little luster off of the holier-than-thou fundamentalist world and make the Catholic Church homosexual scandal look like less of an aberration. Visit The DISH online at www.thedish.org |