RANK FUNDAMENTALIST HYPOCRISY
A drug addict's allegations of
gay sex sessions with the founder
of the world's largest televangelist group

From the London Independent courtesy of J. Orlin Grabbe:

The time was the autumn of 1996, the scene a cabin in the San Bernardino mountains near Los Angeles. The cabin was owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network, the world's largest televangelist organisation with outlets on thousands of satellite, cable and terrestrial channels around the world. That much we know.

According to Lonnie Ford, an admittedly troubled sometime drug addict who worked for the station, it was also the site of an inappropriate - and potentially scandalous - sexual encounter between himself and TBN's president and founder, Paul Crouch.

For eight years, Mr Ford has been threatening to go public with the story and has written a lengthy manuscript detailing his allegations. The two sides have been in and out of court, money has changed hands and each has accused the other of acting in bad faith.

Mr Crouch has denied everything, as well he might, since homosexuality is a big no-no in the Christian fundamentalist world which he inhabits and which has provided him with a lifestyle of striking lavishness over the past 31 years. In fact, the star evangelist on TBN, Benny Hinn, once announced that "God will destroy the homosexual community of America ... with fire".

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Not that there's anything wrong with gay sex, but every time I hear about some outspoken anti-gay crusader secretly indulging in the love that dare not speak its name, it just makes my blood boil. I think I can understand a fair amount of confusion on the part of somebody from a staunchly homophobic background who realizes that he's gay or bisexual, but this situation clearly isn't about that: if these allegations are true, Crouch is a scumbag for continuing to denounce homosexuality from his multimillion dollar bully pulpit.

(And for the record, "faith healer" Benny Hinn is a scumbag too, not only for his harsh fundamentalist views, but also for preying on the hopes and dreams of the thousands of sick people who come to him every year to be "blessed" by his "spiritual gift;" Hinn is nothing but a snake oil salesman.)

At least Crouch's down low love is more interesting than Jim Bakker's church secretary or Jimmy Swaggart's cheap motel prostitute.


Paul and Jan Crouch

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