Lost track of Jim, left the ranks of Evangelical Fundamentalist Quiverfull. Why? Because I wasn’t sure he wasn’t still scamming.Īmerica loves a redemption story and will forgive a long list of sins if they think that the person has had a true awakening and repentance. I remember thinking at the time that it would be very good if he had changed, and was humble, but I didn’t give a penny. We were all encouraged to pray for the Bakkers and to financially support them. I heard during the late nineties at my old Quiverfull church that Jim was humbled, remarried to a lady named Lori and working with the poor and hopeless in the Los Angeles. In 1994 Jim Bakker emerged from federal prison, landing in the Los Angeles area. Jim and Tammy Faye took to PTL and MTV to defend themselves in this hilariously inappropriate video: Jim was convicted and sentenced in 1989 on federal charges over the money, not his rape-like encounter with Jessica Hahn. Lots of financial chicanery involving ministry money, park money, and the fact that the Bakkers were living like millionaires brought the attention of both the IRS and other federal agencies. Then it came out that Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker had been selling condos at their theme park. Televangelist Jerry Falwell of Lynchburg, Virginia and Liberty University stepped into the Bakker’s ministry when the scandal over Hahn broke. My husband used to attend Gorman’s church, and I have many relatives that attended Swaggart’s church and some involved with Bakker and Heritage U.S.A., which sort of gave us a front seat to some of the less Lord-involved doings at the ministries involved. Marvin Gorman of New Orleans was taken down by Swaggart a few years before Gorman turned around and outed Jimmy Swaggart. Hate to admit it but we all laughed in our household at Jimmy’s teary confession back in 1988.
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Jimmy Swaggart, who had his own big prostitution scandal not long afterward. The great irony is that the downfall of these guys was started by Jimmy Swaggart going after Jim Bakker for an affair that sounded much more like a rape situation with a lady named Jessica Hahn. I suspect the viewer is too young and too indoctrinated to remember the scandals of the 1980s that just about took down every single televangelist. The very first comment on the video was one saying that the viewer was upset that I said he was a scammer, not a holy man.