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text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Christianity" title="Template:Christianity">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Christianity" title="Template talk:Christianity">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Christianity&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Swaggart has been caught with his trousers round his knees / after damning you and me to hell for eternity</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_(band)" class="extiw" title="wp:James (band)" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: James (band)">James</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup>, <i>God Only Knows</i></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Jimmy Swaggart</b> (1935–) is an <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> <a href="/wiki/Pentecostal" title="Pentecostal">Pentecostal</a> <a href="/wiki/Televangelist" class="mw-redirect" title="Televangelist">televangelist</a>. His headquarters is called Family Worship Center based out of Baton Rouge, LA. Preacherhood came to Swaggart at an early age. He lived in church basements and held revivals in backwater rural Louisiana towns through much of the 1950s. His cousin, the famous singer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lee_Lewis" class="extiw" title="wp:Jerry Lee Lewis" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Jerry Lee Lewis">Jerry Lee Lewis</span></a>,<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> tried to help him out with a recording deal to get him out of poverty since Swaggart was a passable musician. Swaggart stupidly refused, claiming to be a "true believer," and continued onward. </p><p>In the 1960s, though, fortunes changed. After getting actually ordained by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assemblies_of_God_USA" class="extiw" title="wp:Assemblies of God USA" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Assemblies of God USA">Assemblies of God</span></a>,<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> he put out a radio show that got snapped up by numerous radio stations throughout the <a href="/wiki/Fundie" class="mw-redirect" title="Fundie">Fundie</a> <a href="/wiki/Bible_Belt" title="Bible Belt">Bible Belt</a> of the Deep South. With this new influx of cash, he built his Family Worship Center, which grew exponentially over the next decades with more and more brainwashed converts. While his focus was on music and a brand of Pentecostal teachings, eventually the shows changed as the Christian contemporary music fad became more popular. </p><p>Towards the late 1980s, Swaggart appeared unstoppable. His name was mentioned in Fundie circles as "a true man of God," someone to be like, and to some an incarnation of <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> himself. His Family Worship Center compound still takes up both sides of the block on Bluebonnet Road in Baton Rouge. His college had waiting lists to get in, filled with folks who wanted to preach the gospel like good old Brother Swaggart. </p><p>The TV evangelist served on the board (with upstanding folks like Jerry Falwell) of the American Coalition for Traditional Values, which called on politicians to sign a pledge promising never to accept campaign contributions from gay people. Later in life, Swaggart had to apologize for saying on air, “I’ve never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I’m going to be blunt and plain: If one ever looks at me like that, I’m going to kill him and tell God he died.” It was all a <s>lie</s> joke, of course, he said. Swaggart would have to give yet another vague apology, after it was revealed he was not all that he seemed...<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#The_scandal"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">The scandal</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#All_in_the_family"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">All in the family</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="The_scandal">The scandal</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Swaggart&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: The scandal">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>We saw her go down to a room near the airport, <p>Where Swaggart gets off watching <a href="/wiki/Pornography" title="Pornography">pornography</a>, </p><p>Everyone smiles as we tread through his <a href="/wiki/Bullshit" title="Bullshit">horseshit</a>, </p> That grows so incredibly high.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Frank Zappa, <i>Texas Medley</i><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Jimmy Swaggart was always first on the dogpile to call out the "sins" of prominent religious figures. However, he met his match when criticizing preacher Marvin Gorman. Since having sex with someone you are not married to can cost donation money, Gorman got mad enough to hire an investigator to follow Swaggart. In the late 1980s he was photographed entering a motel off Airline Highway in a seedy section of New Orleans with a known <a href="/wiki/Prostitution" title="Prostitution">prostitute</a>. According to the prostitute, they did not have sex, but instead he paid her to perform "pornographic acts."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> He has, however, been forgiven by <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> in a hilariously famous scene on his show. How do we know that he has been forgiven by God? Because Jimmy Swaggart went on TV a few days after he was caught to give a whiny "LOOOORRRRDDDD, I have sinnnnned against theeeee!" sermon and shed tears of repentance.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> </p><p>For several days, Swaggart was missing from his show. When he reappeared, the show went into the realm of the bizarre. Swaggart had a self-imposed "penalty box" of sorts in a dimly lit room for his "punishment." His wife and son, Donnie, played along with this ruse in a feeble attempt to stop hemorrhaging followers and donation money. Sponsors left the show in droves. Stations dropped his show because of bad ratings. His Bible college turned into a ghost town. Of course, the Assemblies of God ended up stripping him of his ordination for two years. Not wanting to lose all that <a href="/wiki/Tithe" title="Tithe">tithe</a> money to spend on <s>prostitutes</s> his <i>ministry</i> [snicker], Swaggart responded by becoming independent. Three years later, he was caught with his proverbial pants down again! </p><p>The Jimmy Swaggart prostitution scandal broke in 1988, right around the same time as the <a href="/wiki/Jim_Bakker" title="Jim Bakker">Jim Bakker</a> sex scandal did, and <a href="/wiki/Oral_Roberts" title="Oral Roberts">Oral Roberts</a> made his highly specious claim that the LORD had spoken to him in his Prayer Tower and said He was going to "call him home" unless his flock sent him a certain amount of money, pronto. All these scandals hitting at once didn't seem to affect Americans' appetite for being fleeced by charlatans, however — evangelical <a href="/wiki/Megachurch" title="Megachurch">megachurches</a> remained more popular than ever. </p><p>In 1991, Swaggart was again found in the company of a prostitute. This time, it was after being pulled over for a traffic violation in California. The woman with whom Swaggart was driving alleged that he asked for sex.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> Though nowhere near as popular and influential as he was at his height, Jimmy continues to televangelize to this day. This time, instead of an emotional confession, Swaggart told his followers, "the Lord told me it is none of your bossiness!" and stormed off. </p><p>After the scandals, the Swaggart ministry never matched its former glory. The Bible college ended up losing a huge percentage of its students — so much so that many of the dorms have since been converted into utilities-paid apartments to at least draw in some income. Jimmy Swaggart's son Donnie now runs what is left of the ministry with his dad making the occasional appearance. However, the compound in Baton Rouge still runs and still gains converts daily, and Swaggart's cable/satellite channel spews forth bullshit around the clock. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="All_in_the_family">All in the family</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Swaggart&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: All in the family">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Swaggart's son Donnie officially heads and does most of the sermons for the ministry. He's a DEFCON level 4 asshole. Seriously. The younger Swag makes his dad look <i>saintly</i> in comparison. From claiming "gay activists would love to behead Christians"<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup> to shilling hard for the <a href="/wiki/Rise_Up_Australia_Party" title="Rise Up Australia Party">Rise Up Australia Party</a> despite being on the other side of the globe, he uses his pulpit mostly as a political mouthpiece. </p><p>Swaggart's wife Frances runs a gleeful, conspiracy-filled radio program that would likely strike envy into the heart of <a href="/wiki/Glenn_Beck" title="Glenn Beck">Glenn Beck</a>. Her <a href="/wiki/Webshite" class="mw-redirect" title="Webshite">webshite</a> included such gems as a nice little patronizing essay on "church segregation."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup> </p><p>Swaggart's grandson is also following in the family tradition, corrupting the minds of Baton Rouge youth with his Crossfire Ministries. </p><p>So far, no more prostitutes... yet... that we know of. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Swaggart&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jsm.org/">Jimmy Swaggart Ministries Official Website</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Swaggart&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:80%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lucas Grindley, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/advocate-45/2012/08/21/45-biggest-homophobes-our-45-years?page=full">The 45 Biggest Homophobes of Our 45 Years</a>. <i>Advocate</i>, 21 August 2012.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/Texas_Medley"><i>Texas Medley</i></a>, killuglyradio.com.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Art Harris, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1988/02/25/jimmy-swaggart-and-the-snare-of-sin/d07127d2-c412-4738-98d9-3b186d1b92f9/">Jimmy Swaggart and the Snare of Sin</a>. <i>The Washington Post</i>, 24 February 1988.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wayne King, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/22/us/swaggart-says-he-has-sinned-will-step-down.html?pagewanted=all">Swaggart Says He Has Sinned; Will Step Down.</a> <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, 22 February 1988.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-12-mn-202-story.html">Woman Riding in Swaggart Car Says She’s a Prostitute</a>. <i>The Los Angeles Times</i>, 12 October 1991.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/donnie-swaggart-says-that-gay-rights-activists-would-love-to-behead-christians/">Donnie Swaggart says that gay rights activists would love to behead Christians</a>. <i>Right Wing Watch</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101028051956/http://www.francesandfriends.com/Ethnic-Loyalty">Has Ethnic Loyalty In America Replaced Loyalty To Christ?</a> Archived from 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