The Foley story broke too early, so this perverted preacher story seems to have been released just before the election to try to revive the issue and depress Republican/conservative turnout on November 7. I never heard of the guy before they turned it into a big news story, but they would like you to believe he was more famous than Pope Benedict XVI, Billy Graham, and the Dalai Lama combined.
I hadn't either....but just think, his mega-church is in ultra-liberal Colorado...they left that part out!