Televangelism and Televangelists by WinchellV

Question 2

After Jim Bakker stepped down from leadership of the TV ministry in Question 1, what Lynchburg, Virginia, televangelist (who years later would denounce Tinky Winky, the purple Teletubby, for "modeling the gay lifestyle") took over the reins? According to Bakker's son Jay, the family felt betrayed when, instead of working to rehabilitate Bakker, this preacher denounced him as "the greatest scab and cancer on the face of Christianity in 2,000 years of church history."

Jerry Falwell

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