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Jim Bakker’s Daughter Apologizes For Father’s Theology, Urges Donations to LGBTQ Groups in Lieu of Flowers
Protestia ^ | October 13, 2026 | staff

Posted on 10/21/2026 10:24:18 PM PDT by Morgana

Tammy Sue Bakker, the daughter of the late televangelist Jim Baker with his late ex-wife Tammy Faye, has released a statement on Facebook following her father’s death at the age of 86. She publicly apologized to anyone hurt by her father’s theology while urging folks to donate to LGBTQ groups.

Bakker reveals in her letter that “she left his ministry in 2022 because the message that was being delivered was not mine,” and that the distance between them caused her to be out of the loop in a big way.

I have spent the years since estranged from my father.

No one told me my father was ill or that his illness had progressed to hospice care until three hours before his death. I learned he had passed from a friend who saw it online and didn’t realize I hadn’t been told.

Noting that “There are very few times in life—if any—that we are given the chance to show the world that everyone is loved,” she used his death to say:

I want to publicly apologize, from the depths of my soul, to anyone who has been hurt by the church or my family’s ministry over the last 60 years. I know that millions of lives were positively changed by PTL, and for that I’m grateful. I have also read the letters and comments—and have been told in person many times—that so many gave their last dime to the ministry.

It breaks my heart to know that the church has been responsible for millions of people suffering, being rejected by their families, living with depression, being kicked out of their family homes, feeling like outcasts, dealing with suicidal ideation, or dying by suicide.

In lieu of flowers or gifts, she asks everyone to “donate funds or your time to your local LGBTQIA+ community” and that “no amount is too big or too small to make a real change and possibly save someone’s life.”

Likewise, Jay Bakker, Jim’s other child with Tammy, did not attend his father’s funeral. Publicly acknowledging the complicated relationship they had, he says he visited him several weeks ago and said his goodbyes then.

Jim Bakker has 5 other adopted children with his second wife Lori.


TOPICS: Charismatic Christian; Moral Issues
KEYWORDS: lgbtqia

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Thank you very much and God bless you.

I never knew he had kids, much less a deviant one.

Please donate here https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=P5K5QZGVTL4PW in memory of Jim Bakker.

1 posted on 10/21/2026 10:24:18 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

His son Jay has been obsessed with the gay crap and bashing his dad and traditional Christians for his whole adult life. I never knew the daughter was the same way.


2 posted on 10/21/2026 10:49:06 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: ArcadeQuarters

Had no idea his son was like that. Just wow 😮


3 posted on 10/21/2026 10:56:01 PM PDT by Morgana ( The more I get to know people, the more I realize why Noah only let animals on the boat.)
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To: Morgana

Hard pass. The gay people purposely shut their ears to the Lord so they don’t need to accept our money. They should ask the leftist financiers who use them as soldiers against righteousness.


4 posted on 10/21/2026 10:57:57 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer
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To: Morgana

The whole family is a bunch of freaks.


5 posted on 10/21/2026 11:01:16 PM PDT by KevinB (Nepotism = affirmative action for white people. )
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To: KevinB

Big time.


6 posted on 10/21/2026 11:05:21 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Morgana

What did they find when Tammy Bakker’s makeup was removed?

Jimmy Hoffa


7 posted on 10/21/2026 11:06:29 PM PDT by Trump_Triumphant ( “They recognized Him in the breaking of the Bread”)
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To: Trump_Triumphant

You wrote:
What did they find when Tammy Bakker’s makeup was removed?

Jimmy Hoffa
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LOL - YOMANK


8 posted on 10/21/2026 11:10:01 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: Morgana

Yes. Jesus was WAY out of the loop in His time, too.

He was so far out of the loop, the angry crowd made sure He was nailed to a cross, wearing a crown of thorns.

There is something about TRUTH, though. You can’t kill it.


9 posted on 10/21/2026 11:13:21 PM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: Gnome1949

On the other hand, imagine the realization that your parents were Jim and Tammy Bakker. Uff Da!


10 posted on 10/21/2026 11:26:33 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Morgana

Disgusting.


11 posted on 10/21/2026 11:27:39 PM PDT by dadgum (Fight to WIN or do not fight at all. Destroy the wicked!)
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To: Morgana

why you posting this crap?


12 posted on 10/21/2026 11:44:06 PM PDT by Az Joe ("In regards to A.I. - Democrats have never met a regulation they didn't like.")
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To: KevinB
The whole family is a bunch of freaks.

Yes, heretics all.

13 posted on 10/22/2026 12:17:44 AM PDT by awelliott (What one generation tolerates, the next embraces....)
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To: Morgana

If people want to donate, they should donate to FR instead.


14 posted on 10/22/2026 1:49:28 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: FamiliarFace

That is what the link in my first comment is for 😋


15 posted on 10/22/2026 2:05:58 AM PDT by Morgana ( The more I get to know people, the more I realize why Noah only let animals on the boat.)
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To: Morgana

Oh good. I don’t click links if I’m not sure where they’re going. That one wasn’t obvious (to me, anyway). Thanks.


16 posted on 10/22/2026 2:20:03 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Morgana

Sad the kids weren’t capable of being ‘inclusive’ when it came to their father... In liberal speak the term ‘inclusive’ means rejecting all don’t fit the exact same narrow pattern.


17 posted on 10/22/2026 2:36:37 AM PDT by GOPJ (Are CNN & MSNOW giving 'in kind donations' to democrats when they quote polls they know are false?)
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To: Morgana

There’s no righteousness like self righteousness.


18 posted on 10/22/2026 3:01:55 AM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident)
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To: Morgana

Sounds like he used to sneak wearing Tammie Faye’s eyelashes.

The entire family are con artists, dad, mom, and son.

Just a different grift.


19 posted on 10/22/2026 3:53:13 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: Morgana

How sad.


20 posted on 10/22/2026 4:19:58 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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