Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart Dies at 90

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Mark Jeffries

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Jul 1, 2025, 3:56:02 PM7/1/25

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The flamboyant evangelist started preaching in tents, started a radio program and later added a singing career in southern gospel music, bought several religious format radio stations and began a weekly television program---in 1986, he claimed that fellow evangelist Marvin Gorman was having affairs, Gorman took him to court and settled for $1.8M--later, Gorman hired a detective to track Mr. Swaggart and caught him with a hooker outside a hotel room--five years later, a cop caught him with another hooker in his Jaguar, he was only charged with driving on the wrong side of the road and owning an unregistered vehcle--among his survivors is his son Donnie, who now runs the family business--cardiac arrest at his Baton Rouge, LA home yesterday:

https://www.thewrap.com/jimmy-swaggart-longtime-televangelist-dies-90/

Enjoy hell, Jimmy--praise God!

Bob Jersey

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Jul 1, 2025, 7:22:44 PM7/1/25

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The channel his organization created and owns, SonLife, might still be on my cable, but I dawt it... additional sidechannels, while free-to-air, are impractical for cable to pick up, largely due to the exponentially-increasing "broadcast fees"... B