Just damn.
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Posted on 09/12/2004 3:07:13 AM PDT by The Bandit
Televangelist Paul Crouch, founder of the world's largest Christian broadcasting network, has waged a fierce legal battle to prevent a former employee from publicizing allegations that he and Crouch had a sexual encounter eight years ago.
Crouch, 70, is the president of Trinity Broadcasting Network, based in Orange County, whose Christian programming reaches millions of viewers around the world via satellite, cable and broadcast stations.
The source of the allegations against him is Enoch Lonnie Ford, who met Crouch at a TBN-affiliated drug treatment center in 1991 and later went to work for the ministry.
After Ford threatened to sue TBN in 1998, claiming that he had been unjustly fired, Crouch reached a $425,000 settlement with him. In return, Ford agreed, among other things, not to discuss his claim about a sexual encounter with the TV preacher.
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My hubby says if they really believed that if you give, you'll get...they'd be sending money to their contributors, rather than asking their contributors to send money to them.
"Another prediction: Paul will repent on the air (tearfully, of course) and the lemmings in the audience will dig deeper into their pockets."
I don't know about that, maybe bjclinton's sermon a few weeks back was a trial run for this guy's position.
Never liked Crouch anyway. The man is taking Christ and making money off of Him. If Jesus was on the Earth today He would go down to Costa Mesa and overturn that gaudy peice of marble next to the 405. Maybe some day He will. Why does bad Christianity have to always be so tacky? Tammy Faye anyone?
I live in OC and it's a matter of public record that the Crouches paid $6 million cash for a home in Newport Beach several years ago. Kobe pays off his wife with a $4 million diamond ... Crouch does it with a new home?
You guys are gonna hafta invite me to some of your meetings. I will be re-OCed as of October. I would love to meet the OC and LA freep community and have fun wit juu guys!
bump
who's the drag queen with Paul?
Despite TBN's efforts to keep Ford's charges secret, they surfaced in an unrelated 1998 lawsuit. A former bodyguard for TBN personality Benny Hinn testified in a deposition that during a European bus tour that year, Hinn had told a group of associates about "a sexual relationship that Paul Crouch had with his chauffeur."
The witness, Mario C. Licciardello, quoted Hinn as saying: "Paul's defense was that he was drunk."
Hinn and six others mentioned by Licciardello, who died in 2000, told The Times that Hinn never made such remarks. However, Rick Jones, a retired police officer and ordained minister who worked for Hinn, said he heard Hinn talk about Crouch's alleged homosexual relationship on that bus.
Jones said he was disgusted by the talk and "got up and walked away. I didn't want to hear gossip."
That Benny Hinn is another whack job ... I'd more quickly believe a story about Crouch getting it on with him ...
Like the sun coming up in the morning, the self righteous spokesmen for the Lord eventually implode from their own pomposity.
You can't stero-type all Christians from the sins of one who fell short.
Just damn.
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7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the
kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which
is in heaven.
7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not
prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and
in thy name done many wonderful works?
7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from
me, ye that work iniquity.
If only he had been allowed to get married none of this would have happened.
Oh, he's the one who's married to the lady with lavender hair.
If you think their TV sets look like that, you should see that hideous building. It's the very definition of someone with more money than taste. (And the yearly Christmas display on it just adds to the awfulness of it all)
LOL! Great point!
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