Just damn. If Jim "Bakker" didn't have a sound alike name to James "Baker", we probably wouldn't have been so inundated with the news of the "scandal".
Robert Tilton's scandals never made nearly the ripples in the national news.
The PTL scandal let them slam Christians AND the Reagan administration. "It's just sex", isn't it?
Why didn't Jesse Jackson's scandal of paying for his bastard children with charity monies generate the same level of coverage?
Heck, Jesse's got about as much credibility as a religious figure.
That would be the REV-rand Jackson, to you..
Robert Tilton never had anything Jerry Falwell wanted.
If you recall, the Bakker scandal was fed by Jerry Falwell, founder and leader of the Moral Majority, who was trying to pump the scandal so he could buy the PTL themepark.
I still remember the picture of Jerry going down the water slide with his blue suit, white shirt, red tie and a sactimonious smirk on his face.