Another televangelist, another affair: Marcus Lamb

[Questioninggeller]

Marcus Lamb, minister and CEO of a Christian broadcasting group, admitted to his audience that he had an "inappropriate relationship between Marcus and another woman." He had the "special message" about the incident broadcasted and posted on the website of Daystar Television Network.

Why was he coming clean? Guilt?

Televangelist says he cheated on wife
CNN.com
December 1, 2010


A televangelist admitted in front of a television audience that he cheated on his wife, an announcement he made to thwart people he said were trying to extort millions of dollars from him.

The Rev. Marcus Lamb made the confession Tuesday night on his show "Celebration" with his wife Joni Lamb by his side.

The couple also displayed a special message about the incident on the website of Daystar Television Network, the couple's television network.
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The couple explained that there were three people who said they would expose the affair if the couple's ministry did not pay them $7.5 million.
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Full: CNN.com

As pointed out here:

Dallas area televangelist admits infidelity, says he won't pay millions to extortionists
Dallas Morning News
December 1, 2010
By Sam Hodges


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Evangelists Marcus and Joni Lamb made a pre-emptive strike, going on their regular morning program, Celebration, to acknowledge his past marital misconduct and say that three people had demanded $7.5 million to keep the scandal out of the media.
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"He had had one inappropriate period of misbehavior, with one person, and it wasn't a man. It wasn't a transvestite. It was with a woman," Kendall said during the broadcast.
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Sex scandal among prominent evangelical figures is hardly new, with the ranks including Jim Bakker , Jimmy Swaggart and Ted Haggard. Recently, sensational allegations have been made in lawsuits filed against Bishop Eddie Long of Atlanta.
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Daystar is a nonprofit that pays for its more than $70 million annual operating budget through paid programming, Ross said. Viewers' donations go toward "ministry projects," he said.

Full: Dallas Morning News

 

[shandyjan]

Still spouting until the day he was caught! Hypocrisy as usual.

 

[Sonny2]

No, this kind of stuff increases ratings, it's all preplanned.

It also shows how much you can do and Jesus will still forgive you, so they get a secondary message in there, too, and it brings in the really bad ones.

All marketing. People love dirt. but not the good kind that pigs roll in.

 

[Questioninggeller]

Another scandal. The Times-Picayune:

Southern Decadence protest leader booked with masturbating at Metairie park
The Times-Picayune
By Michelle Hunter
February 28, 2011


The Rev. Grant Storms, the Christian fundamentalist known for his bullhorn protests of the Southern Decadence festival in the French Quarter, was arrested on a charge of masturbating at a Metairie park Friday afternoon.
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The first woman told deputies she was taking her children to the playground and parked next to the van at about noon. As she was walking around her own vehicle, she noticed the van windows were down and the occupant was "looking at the playground area that contained children playing, with his zipper down...," the report said. The woman noted that he was masturbating and quickly ushered her children out of her car.
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A self-styled "Christian patriot," Storms led a small West Bank congregation called The Reformer Church and for 10 years hosted "The Reformer Radio Show" on WSHO. Storms has railed against the Roman Catholic church, calling it "satanic" and "demonic."

He is especially known for arming followers with bullhorns, Bibles and picket signs to protest Southern Decadence, the three-day gay festival held in the French Quarter during Labor Day weekend. Storms grabbed national attention in 2003 with his failed attempts to shut down what Southern Decadence organizer Chuck Robinson called a peaceful festival that celebrates gay and alternative lifestyles.
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Full: The Times-Picayune