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Title: Scandal brewing at Oral Roberts U.
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071006 ... t=As5HmMltcQSueuVbYfTHIIas0NUE
Published: Oct 5, 2007
Author: JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS
Post Date: 2007-10-05 23:11:07 by kiki
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TULSA, Okla. - Twenty years ago, televangelist Oral Roberts said he was reading a spy novel when God appeared to him and told him to raise $8 million for Roberts' university, or else he would be "called home." Now, his son, Oral Roberts University President Richard Roberts, says God is speaking again, telling him to deny lurid allegations in a lawsuit that threatens to engulf this 44-year-old Bible Belt college in scandal. Richard Roberts is accused of illegal involvement in a local political campaign and lavish spending at donors' expense, including numerous home remodeling projects, use of the university jet for his daughter's senior trip to the Bahamas, and a red Mercedes convertible and a Lexus SUV for his wife, Lindsay. She is accused of dropping tens of thousands of dollars on clothes, awarding nonacademic scholarships to friends of her children and sending scores of text messages on university-issued cell phones to people described in the lawsuit as "underage males." At a chapel service this week on the 5,300-student campus known for its 60-foot-tall bronze sculpture of praying hands, Roberts said God told him: "We live in a litigious society. Anyone can get mad and file a lawsuit against another person whether they have a legitimate case or not. This lawsuit ... is about intimidation, blackmail and extortion." San Antonio televangelist John Hagee, a member of the ORU board of regents, said the university's executive board "is conducting a full and thorough investigation." Colleagues fear for the reputation of the university and the future of the Roberts' ministry, which grew from Southern tent revivals to one of the most successful evangelical empires in the country, hauling in tens of millions of dollars in contributions a year. The university reported nearly $76 million in revenue in 2005, according to the IRS. Oral Roberts is 89 and lives in California. He holds the title of chancellor, but the university describes him as semi-retired, and his son presides over day-to-day operations on the campus, which had a modern, space-age design when it was built in the early 1960s but now looks dated, like Disney's Tomorrowland. Cornell Cross II, a senior from Burlington, Vt., said he is looking to transfer to another school because the scandal has "severely devalued and hurt the reputation of my degree." "We have asked and asked and asked to see the finances of our school and what they're doing with our money, and we've been told no," said, Cross who is majoring in government. "Now we know why. As a student, I'm not going to stand for it any longer." The allegations are contained in a lawsuit filed Tuesday by three former professors. They sued ORU and Roberts, alleging they were wrongfully dismissed after reporting the school's involvement in a local political race. Richard Roberts, according to the suit, asked a professor in 2005 to use his students and university resources to aid a county commissioner's bid for Tulsa mayor. Such involvement would violate state and federal law because of the university's nonprofit status. Up to 50 students are alleged to have worked on the campaign. The professors also said their dismissals came after they turned over to the board of regents a copy of a report documenting moral and ethical lapses on the part of Roberts and his family. The internal document was prepared by Stephanie Cantese, Richard Roberts' sister-in-law, according to the lawsuit. An ORU student repairing Cantese's laptop discovered the document and later provided a copy to one of the professors. It details dozens of alleged instances of misconduct. Among them: • A longtime maintenance employee was fired so that an underage male friend of Mrs. Roberts could have his position. • Mrs. Roberts — who is a member of the board of regents and is referred to as ORU's "first lady" on the university's Web site — frequently had cell-phone bills of more than $800 per month, with hundreds of text messages sent between 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. to "underage males who had been provided phones at university expense." • The university jet was used to take one daughter and several friends on a senior trip to Orlando, Fla., and the Bahamas. The $29,411 trip was billed to the ministry as an "evangelistic function of the president." • Mrs. Roberts spent more than $39,000 at one Chico's clothing store alone in less than a year, and had other accounts in Texas and California. She also repeatedly said, "As long as I wear it once on TV, we can charge it off." The document cites inconsistencies in clothing purchases and actual usage on TV. • Mrs. Roberts was given a white Lexus SUV and a red Mercedes convertible by ministry donors. • University and ministry employees are regularly summoned to the Roberts' home to do the daughters' homework. • The university and ministry maintain a stable of horses for exclusive use by the Roberts' children. • The Roberts' home has been remodeled 11 times in the past 14 years. Tim Brooker, one of the professors who sued, said he fears for the university's survival if certain changes aren't made. "All over that campus, there are signs up that say, `And God said, build me a university, build it on my authority, and build it on the Holy Spirit,'" Brooker said. "Unfortunately, ownership has shifted."
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#1. To: kiki (#0)
Dear God.
creepy family
Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today!
creepy non-Christian family
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest.
hey, isn't that rush limbaugh and janet from "three's company"?
The lawsuit: Dr. John Swails, Dr. Tim Brooker & Dr. Paulite Brooker vs ORU
LOL!!!
see page 3.. its about the RNC~!
oooh, I like the part where one defendant was asked to "fall on the sword" and accept all responsibility for political activity, in order to resolve Roberts. our homegrown royalty is getting tiresome at all levels.
How surprised am I that the RNC is involved with these loons? .. NOT! ..
And God told me to bet on the #5 horse in the fifth race.
In the wake of Marion Jones' confession to steroid use, the TV played a clip from one of her earlier denials, in which she lashed out at her critics for questioning her "God-given ability and hard work."
Marion Jones? I hope you're not going to make me research her tonight. My team got beat again tonight. UofL. I'm bummed out.
She's this sprinter who won 3 gold medals and a couple of bronze at the 2000 Olympics, and has been caught up in the Balco steroids scandal (like Barry Bonds). She had vehemently denied steroid use until this week, when she came to a plea for lying to federal investigators of Balco.
BTW, Leno made a joke about her tonight, saying how sad it was that she would have to return her medals, but on the bright side she was now eligible for the baseball hall of fame.
My filly is all natural. She'll probably finish last.
Not going to question G-d are ya,heathern bastard?
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
Now, his son, Oral Roberts University President Richard Roberts, says God is speaking again, telling him to deny lurid allegations in a lawsuit that threatens to engulf this 44-year-old Bible Belt college in scandal. When an average citizen starts talking this way they are either sent to a psychiatrist or put into a mental institution.
In the case of the Roberts, it would be with donated money intended for charity.
Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today!
When an average citizen starts talking this way they are either sent to a psychiatrist or put into a mental institution. or elected president
When I was about 8 years old a friend of my mother's took me to an Oral Roberts revival in the largest tent I've ever seen. Oral brought a black woman on stage who described her terminal throat cancer in a weak, raspy voice and after he laid his hands on and prayed for her, she broke out in a high pitched, incredibly powerful, glass shattering gospel voice and she was miraculously healed! As luck would have it, the mike was perfectly adjusted for her voice and the PA system, and it was the most professional healing I'd ever see. My fellow Virginians were generous as always when the hat came around shortly after G_d made his endorsement of Oral Roberts known. Even as a kid I saw that it was a scam. I never believed it for an instant and I never had any use for him after that. Child evangelist turned actor Marjoe Gortner confirmed the scams in his tell all 1972 documentary entitled, MARJOE. And, unlike Mother Theresa who walked everywhere and dedicated her life to feeding the hungry and caring for the sick, in the South the various Babtists all seem to think that G_d shows his love with material compensation, and the more money and cars and stuff you have the more he loves you!
I remember seeing MARJOE in a theater. it was pretty shocking at the time. hey, I also grew up in Virginia, but I never went to a revival. what a weird place to take a kid, unless as an object lesson in how not to get scammed.
ORU official denies claims in lawsuit ................................ he breach of contract lawsuit was filed Tuesday against the university, Roberts, provost Mark Lewandowski, associate provost Jeff Ogle and dean Wendy Shirk by three professors who said they were fired or resigned under pressure. The plaintiffs are John Swails, former chairman of the history, humanities and government department; Tim Brooker, who coordinated the government program; and Brooker's wife, Paulita, who taught in the humanities and lifelong education departments. The defendants, who received a copy of the lawsuit on Wednesday, have 20 days to respond. Tim Brooker joined ORU in 2001. He was recruited by the Republican National Committee to develop a program to further the political group's efforts. Over several years, the program had success in political races, all outside of Oklahoma, and financed either by the RNC or individual campaign committees, the lawsuit said. In December 2005, Tim Brooker was summoned to meet with Richard Roberts and Roberts' sister-in-law Stephanie Cantese, community and governmental liaison for the ministries, the lawsuit stated. Brooker was instructed by Roberts to use his talent and his students in local political races, specifically that of Randi Miller, seeking the Republican nomination for Tulsa mayor, according to the lawsuit. Miller is now a county commissioner. The lawsuit states Roberts was told that such action was in violation of the tax code, but he "remained adamant” and directed Brooker to become involved in a partisan political campaign. In May 2006, the IRS contacted ORU about its involvement in the Miller campaign. Brooker said he was instructed to write a report and "fall on the sword” while taking "full and total blame,” covering up the directives made by Roberts, according to the lawsuit. The first two drafts of Brooker's report were rejected by ORU officials, the lawsuit states. Ralph Fagin, then the provost, wrote his own "sanitized and inaccurate” narrative for a sworn affidavit to respond to the IRS, the lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit states the plaintiffs were targeted after they turned over a report developed by Cantese. Tulsa attorney Gary Richardson's firm is representing the professors. "This suit has been filed by an attorney who has over the years filed many suits against Oral Roberts University for more than, well, multimillions of dollars,” Richard Roberts said Wednesday. "And he has lost every suit that he has filed against the university. I have been down this road with him before.” Richardson said he was involved in only one past lawsuit involving ORU, involving its hospital building, but that case never went to trial. "I hate to call him a liar, but he's a liar,” Richardson said. Contributing: The Associated Press
hey, I also grew up in Virginia, but I never went to a revival. what a weird place to take a kid, unless as an object lesson in how not to get scammed. I couldn't believe that other tent show evangelists allowed Marjoe's film crew to document their revealing chats about the swindle. He said that whenever anyone got suspicious he simply said, "Hey brother, I'm washed in the blood, same as you!" He said that they'd drop their wimmen at a hotel on the edge of town, go in and do the show, divvy up the cash and pick up the girls and some likka on the way out of town and drink and ho' all the way to the next one! I was about 31 yrs old when I was asked to join a Christian rock group who had a whole tour of colleges lined up to "win kidz to Christ with rock music". I was a little older than the 24 to 28 yrs old band members and I questioned if I'd fit in on a college tour circuit but they didn't care. I suspect that no self respecting rock lead guitarist with any talent would take the gig and they weren't in any position to argue! I was only curious because I suspected that I coulda screwed a whole lot of college chix blue in the name of The Lord (I kept thinking about MARJOE, and with a rock theme how could it be otherwise?) But, I didn't go. Oh, and I was married!
the oral roberts university webpage has a whole section on 'giving': Thank you for your interest in Oral Roberts University. Our hope is to serve you and your family with helpful information. When you sow your seed into Oral Roberts University, you are immediately involved in the training of thousands of men and women who are daily answering God's call on their lives to spread His gospel. We have an increasing number of ORU friends who are now giving current donations, as well as benefiting from life income gifts, gift annuities, bequests, and other estate plans. Thank you for taking the time to explore all of the benefits of gift planning that ORU offers. oru.giftlegacy.com/plgive_main.jsp?WebID=GL2006-0702 wonder if that's gonna fall off as donors realize they're paying for not only political campaigns but text messaging and home remodeling.
This is so interesting .. the portion where he is in a church 'preaching'.. so typical of the pentacostal whackos like Benny Hinn
Hagee? The guy with the $650,000 mansion? That Hagee? Talk about the fox guarding the henhouse...
Light Lifting - Caring by bearing each other's burdens. The load is always lighter when many hands lift it. But, Mrs. Roberts' Lexus SUV still requires a shop lift to pick it up!
Rather reminds me of the Jim Bakker scandal when Jerry Falwell according to Tammy Faye Bakker her husband was conned into giving Falwell PTL "Jerry Falwell conned Jim into giving the PTL to him. He got us at a time when I had just gotten out of the hospital. He knew we were at a down time in our lives. He came to California and he lied to Jim. He told Jim he wanted to help him and Jim believed him."
wow. get out your checkbook and write a check for Jesus. I wonder if selling salvation has become the biggest money making industry in america yet. and why aren't we in on it?
I met Richie Roberts once, somewhere around 1992, when the Wal-Mart supercenter opened right across from the campus. I ran into him inside the store after he spent about a half hour doing some benediction or something blessing the store (ick). I asked him if his father was still up in the tower. If looks could cripple, I would have left in a basket. He's really a priggish, stuffed-shirt troll. I saw this story a few days ago, but I was waiting for someone local to cover it. Looks like it's going to blow up in their face. But these creatures are good at hiding behind lawyers and just outspending their opponents until the legal cases die of old age.
Bakker had to step down because of the Jessica Hahn eruption, so, somebody was going to replace Bakker. Falwell offered to hold Bakker's spot while he got right with the Lord, and after seeing the books and hearing other things he realized who and what he was really dealing with. There is no evidence that Falwell was deceiving the Bakkers when he made the offer, and if the ministry had replaced Jim there would have been no offer to hold the spot for his possible return. Tammy Faye was tuned out if she believed that there was any chance of them returning to the thrones of the PTL kingdom. She knew before Falwell did what was going on. Perhaps she assumed that Falwell was as greedy and phony as she and Jim. I'm no fan of Falwell for other reasons, but he didn't conspicuously consume his corporations' money the way the Bakkers did.
it's very lucrative.. go to this site and get the picture just HOW lucrative
that's just amazing. think of all the people who barely scrape by and give their last dollar to these people.
Oh? May 1979: Jerry Falwell, a televangelist and Baptist pastor in Lynchburg, Va., is recruited by far-right activists Howard Phillips, Ed McAteer and Paul Weyrich to form the Moral Majority, a vehicle for bringing fundamentalist Protestants into the Republican Party with the aim of unseating President Jimmy Carter. The move was an about-face for Falwell, who advised his congregation in 1965, "Preachers are not called to be politicians but soul winners." March 1980: MAJOR LIE # 1 Falwell tells an Anchorage rally about a conversation with President Carter at the White House. Commenting on a January breakfast meeting, Falwell claimed to have asked Carter why he had "practicing homosexuals" on the senior staff at the White House. According to Falwell, Carter replied, "Well, I am president of all the American people, and I believe I should represent everyone." When others who attended the White House event insisted that the exchange never happened, Falwell responded that his account "was not intended to be a verbatim report," but rather an "honest portrayal" of Carter’s position. August 1980: After Southern Baptist Convention President Bailey Smith tells a Dallas Religious Right gathering that "God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew," Falwell gives a similar view. "I do not believe," he told reporters, "that God answers the prayer of any unredeemed Gentile or Jew." After a meeting with an American Jewish Committee rabbi, he changed course, telling an interviewer on NBC’s "Meet the Press" that "God hears the prayers of all persons….God hears everything." 1980-81: After the election of Ronald Reagan, the Moral Majority begins advocating for constitutional amendments banning abortion and restoring school-sponsored prayer. The group also demands tax aid to religious education. September 1982: Falwell announces a drive to register 1 million new voters before the November elections. July 1984: MAJOR LIE # 2 Falwell is forced to pay gay activist Jerry Sloan $5,000 after losing a court battle. During a TV debate in Sacramento, Falwell denied calling the gay-oriented Metropolitan Community Churches "brute beasts" and "a vile and Satanic system" that will "one day be utterly annihilated and there will be a celebration in heaven." When Sloan insisted he had a tape, Falwell promised $5,000 if he could produce it. Sloan did so, Falwell refused to pay and Sloan successfully sued. Falwell appealed, with his attorney charging that the Jewish judge in the case was prejudiced. He lost again and was forced to pay an additional $2,875 in sanctions and court fees. November 1984: Reports from the Federal Election Commission indicate that Falwell’s "I Love America Committee," a political action committee formed in 1983, was a flop. The PAC raised $485,000 in its first year—but spent $413,000 to do so. May 1985: MAJOR LIE # 3 Falwell apologizes to a Jewish group for seeking a "Christian" America. From now on, he says, he will use the term "Judeo-Christian." January 1987: Falwell holds a Washington news conference to announce that he is changing the name of the Moral Majority to the Liberty Foundation. The new name never catches on and is soon abandoned. March 1987: Falwell accepts control of the collapsing PTL from his friend and fellow televangelist Jim Bakker. The floundering PTL (Praise The Lord Network) and it’s Heritage U.S.A. evangelical theme park continued to fall into bankruptcy. Falwell was accused of forcing his Fundamentalist ideas on Bakker’s Presbyterian flock. Tammy Faye, the former wife of Jim Bakker said in her 1996 book, Telling It My Way, "Jerry Falwell conned Jim into giving the PTL to him. He got us at a time when I had just gotten out of the hospital. He knew we were at a down time in our lives. He came to California and he lied to Jim. He told Jim he wanted to help him and Jim believed him." October 1987: CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR # 1 The Federal Election Commission fines Falwell $6,000 for transferring $6.7 million in funds intended for his ministry to political committees. November 1987: MAJOR LIE # 4 Falwell tells reporters he is stepping down as head of the Moral Majority and retiring from politics. "From now on, my real platform is the pulpit, not politics," he says at a news conference. February 1988: The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a $200,000 jury award to Falwell for "emotional distress" he suffered because of a 1983 Hustler magazine parody. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, usually a Falwell favorite, wrote the unanimous opinion in Hustler vs. Falwell, ruling that the First Amendment protects free speech. June1989: Falwell announces that the Moral Majority will shut down its offices and disband. January 1991: Siding with Americans United, the Virginia Supreme Court unanimously rejects Falwell’s quest for $60 million in state bonds for his Liberty University. During the litigation, Falwell tried to camouflage the school’s rigidly fundamentalist character, telling the court that the school would no longer discriminate in hiring or force students to attend mandatory chapel (renamed convocation). All the while, Falwell assured his congregation that Liberty had not changed, insisting chapel will be mandatory "until Jesus comes." 1991: Stephens Inc., a Savings and Loan institution from Arkansas forecloses the North Campus of Liberty University, which Falwell had put up as collateral on $72.3 million. Falwell was also involved in the eventual failure of the Lincoln Savings and Loan of California, after borrowing $32 million. The deed to Thomas Road Baptist Church was recovered from their vault and returned. January 1993: In the wake of Bill Clinton’s election to the presidency, Falwell mails fund-raising letters nationwide asking people to vote on whether he should reactivate the Moral Majority. He later refuses to say how much money the effort raised and tells reporters he has no intention of reactivating the organization. February 1993: CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR # 2 The Internal Revenue Service determines that funds from Falwell’s Old Time Gospel Hour program were illegally funneled to a political action committee. The IRS forced Falwell to pay $50,000 and retroactively revoked the Old Time Gospel Hour’s tax-exempt status for 1986-87. March 1993: Despite his promise to Jewish groups to stop referring to America as a "Christian nation," Falwell gives a sermon saying, "We must never allow our children to forget that this is a Christian nation. We must take back what is rightfully ours." September 1993: Falwell announces he will not reactivate the Moral Majority but will instead do political work through a group called the Liberty Alliance. March 1994: Falwell announces the formation of a new group, Mission America, which he claims will mobilize like-minded clergy across the country. Falwell describes the group as a "personal ministry" and says it will have no budget or staff. Nothing more is heard from it. May 1994: Jerry Falwell’s Liberty Flame newspaper runs an article calling TV preacher John Hagee a heretic for saying Jews can be saved without accepting Jesus Christ. Falwell urges every pastor to "take this information to the podium next Sunday." September 1994: Falwell endorses former Iran-Contra figure Oliver North for a U.S. Senate seat in Virginia. Falwell glosses over North’s legal problems, saying they happened "in the past." 1994-1995: CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR # 3 Falwell is criticized for using his "Old Time Gospel Hour" to hawk a scurrilous video called "The Clinton Chronicles" that makes a number of unsubstantiated charges against President Bill Clinton—among them that he is a drug addict and that he arranged the murders of political enemies in Arkansas. Despite claims he had no ties to the project, evidence surfaced that Falwell helped bankroll the venture with $200,000 paid to a group called Citizens for Honest Government (CHG). CHG’s Pat Matrisciana later admitted that Falwell and he staged an infomercial interview promoting the video in which a silhouetted reporter said his life was in danger for investigating Clinton. (Matrisciana himself posed as the reporter.) "That was Jerry’s idea to do that," Matrisciana recalled. "He thought that would be dramatic." April 1996: Farwell hosts a "Washington for Jesus" rally in the nation’s capital where he holds a mock trial of America for engaging in seven deadly sins: persecution of the church, homosexuality, abortion, racism, occultism, addictions and HIV/AIDS (acronym: PHAROAH). He declares the nation guilty "of violating God’s law." June 1996: Falwell joins Revelation Corp. and adds his mailing list of 5 million to receive coupons and catalogues from Revelation Corp. Revelation Corp. was started by James Lowery as a way for black churches to receive money off of insurance premiums from their congregation’s purchases. Churches make 30% of the money funneled into Revelation and 50% goes to a housing fund, 20% goes into church coffers and 2% goes directly into the pocket of Lowery through a profit sharing plan. Many black church leaders have expressed disdain in the Fundamental Falwell’s joining a system design to help poor black churches. July 1996: Falwell announces a series of "God Save America" rallies in evangelical churches to stop the United States from entering a "post-Christian" era. February 1997: Falwell sponsors a pastors’ briefing in Washington, during which he threatens to form a new political party if Republicans waver on abortion. June 1997: Falwell announces a plan to urge fundamentalist churches to intervene in partisan politics. He vows to send sample candidate endorsement sermons that pastors can read in their churches and says he has already done this in the Virginia attorney general’s race. Falwell drops the plan after being reported to the IRS by Americans United. August 1997: Falwell pleads for funds for a new group, the National Committee for the Restoration of the Judeo-Christian Ethic. In a fund-raising letter, he promises to "get back in the ring" and be a "spiritual George Foreman." He pledges to register 4 million new voters and mobilize 50,000 pastors. After publishing a couple of fund-raising letters, the group is never heard from again. November 1997: Falwell accepts $3.5 million from a front group representing controversial Korean evangelist Sun Myung Moon to ease Liberty University’s financial woes. The donation, and several Falwell appearances at Moon conferences, raised eyebrows because Moon claims to be the messiah sent to complete the failed mission of Jesus Christ, a doctrine sharply at odds with Falwell’s fundamentalist Christian theology. (In 1978, before the Moon money started flowing, Falwell told Esquire magazine, "Reverend Sun Myung Moon is like the plague: he exploits boys and girls, and he should be exported.") February 1998: Falwell accepts a $70-million donation from insurance magnate Art Williams, for his debt-ridden Liberty University. Falwell says the contribution will free him to focus on politics again. April 1998: MAJOR LIE # 5 Confronted on national television with a controversial quote from America Can Be Saved!, a published collection of his sermons, Falwell denies having written the book or had anything to do with it. In the 1979 work, Falwell wrote, "I hope to live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won’t have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!" Despite Falwell’s denial, Sword of the Lord Publishing, which produced the book, confirms that Falwell wrote it. October 1998: In a fund-raising letter, Falwell announces plans to expand his ministry and to "immediately rededicate myself to use my God-given skills as a national spokesman for morality and return to the moral/political arena....[W]ith God’s anointing and your prayerful support, you will soon think I am omnipresent." January 1999: Falwell tells a pastors’ conference in Kingsport, Tenn., that the Antichrist prophesied in the Bible is alive today and "of course he’ll be Jewish." February 1999: MAJOR LIE # 6 uh-oh! Falwell becomes the object of nationwide ridicule after his National Liberty Journal newspaper issues a "parents alert" warning that Tinky Winky, a character on the popular PBS children’s show "Teletubbies," might be gay. (Americans United was responsible for releasing the information to the national press.) January 2000: Falwell sues the White House for harvesting illegal FBI files on him and other televangelists. His accusation is that Bill Clinton has been compiling a list connecting televangelists to violence done to abortion providers called VAAPCON (Violence Against Abortion Providers CONspiracy), which includes personal details of Falwell’s political and real-estate ventures in violation of the Privacy Act. The White House has denied the accusation, and the FBI claims that it’s database contains no such information. April 2000: CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR # 4 Falwell forms the People of Faith 2000, a campaign designed to mobilize Christians in the 2000 election. Federal tax laws clearly state that it is illegal for a tax-exempt organization to conduct partisan voter registration. Although Falwell claims his campaign is nonpartisan he admits, "It is my experience that most people of faith in the country vote pro-family, pro-life, and that will mean George W. Bush." He may also be accused of funneling tax-deductible donations made to his religious ministries into partisan political projects…. So what’s new? RESOURCES The Falwell Folliesfrom American United. Falwell’s Anti-Clinton Propaganda. Larry Flynt Apologizes to Falwell...Or did he? Revelation Corp. TELETUBBY Decide for yourself is Tinky Winky gay, or female?
Because I don't believe we want to wind up where THEY are headed...
Thank you, Jesus, bump.
#2. To: kiki (#0)
• Mrs. Roberts spent more than $39,000 at one Chico's clothing store alone in less than a year, and had other accounts in Texas and California. She also repeatedly said, "As long as I wear it once on TV, we can charge it off." The document cites inconsistencies in clothing purchases and actual usage on TV.
#3. To: robin (#2)
creepy family
#4. To: kiki (#0)
#5. To: Zipporah (#4)
#6. To: kiki (#0)
#7. To: kiki (#5)
#8. To: kiki (#0)
(Edited)
#9. To: Zipporah (#8)
#10. To: kiki (#9)
#11. To: robin (#2)
#12. To: Fred Mertz (#11)
God told me to bet on the #5 horse in the fifth race
I've already said too much.
#13. To: MUDDOG (#12)
#14. To: Fred Mertz (#13)
I've already said too much.
#15. To: Fred Mertz (#13)
I've already said too much.
#16. To: MUDDOG (#15)
#17. To: MUDDOG (#12)
TV played a clip from one of her earlier denials, in which she lashed out at her critics for questioning her "God-given ability and hard work."
#18. To: kiki (#0)
Twenty years ago, televangelist Oral Roberts said he was reading a spy novel when God appeared to him and told him to raise $8 million for Roberts' university, or else he would be "called home."
#19. To: Fred Mertz (#11)
And God told me to bet on the #5 horse in the fifth race.
#20. To: Diana (#18)
Now, his son, Oral Roberts University President Richard Roberts, says God is speaking again, telling him to deny lurid allegations in a lawsuit that threatens to engulf this 44-year-old Bible Belt college in scandal.
#21. To: kiki (#0)
#22. To: HOUNDDAWG (#21)
#23. To: kiki (#22)
#24. To: HOUNDDAWG (#21)
Child evangelist turned actor Marjoe Gortner confirmed the scams in his tell all 1972 documentary entitled, MARJOE.
#25. To: kiki (#22)
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I remember seeing MARJOE in a theater. it was pretty shocking at the time.
#26. To: Zipporah (#23)
#27. To: kiki (#24)
#28. To: kiki (#0)
San Antonio televangelist John Hagee, a member of the ORU board of regents, said the university's executive board "is conducting a full and thorough investigation."
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#29. To: kiki, Zipporah (#26)
Weekly Thought
#30. To: who knows what evil (#28)
Hagee? The guy with the $650,000 mansion? That Hagee? Talk about the fox guarding the henhouse...
#31. To: Zipporah (#27)
#32. To: kiki (#0)
#33. To: Zipporah (#30)
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Rather reminds me of the Jim Bakker scandal when Jerry Falwell according to Tammy Faye Bakker her husband was conned into giving Falwell PTL "Jerry Falwell conned Jim into giving the PTL to him. He got us at a time when I had just gotten out of the hospital. He knew we were at a down time in our lives. He came to California and he lied to Jim. He told Jim he wanted to help him and Jim believed him."
#34. To: kiki (#31)
#35. To: Zipporah (#34)
www.inplainsite.org/html/...vangelist_lifestyles.html
#36. To: HOUNDDAWG (#33)
I'm no fan of Falwell for other reasons, but he didn't conspicuously consume his corporations' money the way the Bakkers did.
#37. To: kiki (#31)
...and why aren't we in on it?
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
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