the largest Christian televangelist TV
network in the world is Trinity
Broadcasting co-founded in part by Jim
and Tammy Faye Bakker in 1973 but the
second biggest network is also huge it's
called Daystar television networks based
in Texas it broadcasts in more than 200
countries its budget is more than 70
million dollars a year it became a
primary sponsor for a NASCAR team
earlier this year a person I'm assured
is very famous named dr. Phil taped a
promo for the network it's a big deal as
these kinds of deals go yesterday the
founders of this televangelism
powerhouse Joanie and Marcus Lam aired a
very special episode of their regular
morning program which is called
celebration they also had a very special
guest on the show their marriage
counselor I discovered that he was
having an emotional relationship if you
will with someone and that it had turned
into a an improper relationship of
course when I came to know that she
realized what I had done I was just I
just instantly went into despair he had
had one inappropriate period of
misbehavior with one person and it
wasn't a man I don't know what a
transvestite it was with a woman and she
was a Christian woman yes now whether
she was or not I don't know but she had
that image if you're confused don't feel
bad this stuff is confusing if you are
having a hard time keeping track of all
the evangelist infidelities you have
seen on television over the years it is
hard to keep them straight
so sorted then it is it's hard to
remember who's who first of all there's
Jim Baker you're saying that Jerry
Falwell is lying
when he accuses you of having had sex
with Jessica and Wendy and when he says
when he says that there have been almost
sexual incidents dating back from 1956
to the present but I admitted that I've
had 15 to 20 minutes relationship with
Jessica Hahn relationship Jim Baker was
heading up praise the Lord ministries in
1987 when he admitted on TV among other
venues to having 15 to 20 minutes with a
church secretary but the bigger part of
the Jim Baker scandal was not the church
secretary shipping but the money that's
why he went to prison mr. Baker was
convicted of mail and wire fraud in 1989
so Jim Bakker is the church secretary
stripping fraud prison guy not to be
confused with Jimmy Swaggart Jimmy
Swaggart scandal can complete with
prostitution and a very tearful
on-camera confession to my fellow
television ministers and evangelist
please forgive me for sinning against
you I have sinned against you my lord
and I would ask that your precious
would wash and cleanse every stain
background here's the Jimmy Swaggart had
been going after other televangelists
like Jim Baker for marital infidelity
for years when the tables were turned in
1988 he was forced to admit that he
himself had availed himself of the
services of a prostitute so he confessed
with many tears as you saw he stepped
down from his ministry for three months
then despite having been defrocked by
the Assemblies of God he went back as an
ordained minister of his own Jimmy
Swaggart ministries then three years
later he was busted with another
prostitute in his car at which point he
told his congregation that his
proclivities were and I quote none of
your business
so Jimmy Swaggart the hooker cryin
repent about the hooker hooker again guy
not to be confused with Jim Baker the
secretary stripping fraud prison guy not
to be confused with Ted Haggard at the
time of his scandal Ted Haggard was the
president of the National Association of
Evangelicals he was founder and senior
pastor of New Life Church in Colorado
Springs and here's Ted Haggard not
crying but giving some of the most
amazing local news interviews ever to
appear on anyone's television ever I did
call him ice i did call him and what did
you call him about I called him to buy
some meth but I threw it away and how
did you know that he would sell it to
you he told me about it
I was there firm I went there for a
massage so okay we're late for our
appointment and so but thank you for
your work how did you find him to get a
massage referral from the hotel I'm
staying at hotel where I said I've
stayed a lot of hotels in Denver because
I write in Denver Ted Haggard is the
hooker for what it's worth dude hooker
no crying but also meth which he bought
that didn't use guy not to be confused
with Jimmy Swaggart the hooker cryin
repent about the hooker hooker again guy
not to be confused with Jim Baker the
secretary stripping fraud prison guy not
to be confused with Marcus Lam
co-founder of day star television
network again for the purposes of
televangelist sexual confession taxonomy
the important thing here is this it had
one inappropriate period of misbehavior
with one person and it wasn't a man I
don't know what a transvestite it was
with a woman and she was a Christian
woman yes now whether she was or not I
don't know but she had that image
so Marcus Lam sex scandal did not
involve a hooker a dude hooker or an
employee as far as we know his
infidelities with a woman who was
apparently importantly not born a man
also no crying so over time it has been
hard to keep these guys straight to
remember who's who we have created a
matrix you can download the full size
version at Meadow blog on MSNBC com
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