Believing that Swaggart was not genuinely repentant in submitting to their authority, the hierarchy of the Assemblies of God immediately defrocked him, removing his credentials and ministerial license.
On October 11, , Swaggart was found in the company of a prostitute for the second time. He was pulled over by a police officer in Indio, California, for driving on the wrong side of the road. With him in the vehicle was a woman named Rosemary Garcia. According to Garcia, Swaggart had stopped to proposition her on the side of the road. This man used the name of the lord to commit sinful acts.
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But Jim had a couple of dirty little secrets. He had paid a former church secretary named Jessica Hahn to keep quiet about a sexual encounter they had in But when the scandal broke in , questions began to be raised about Bakker's financial dealings.
In the end he only served five, and moved forward with his life, eventually opening a new ministry in a restaurant in Branson, Missouri. Mental Floss: 10 great love affairs in history. Swaggart was one of Jim Bakker's fiercest critics when the Bakker scandal broke, telling an interviewer he himself had never even kissed a woman other than his wife.
Maybe not. But the bombastic and fantastically successful television preacher -- and cousin to rock-and-roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis -- was doing something with that prostitute in a cheap New Orleans hotel room in early That's right, Jimmy Swaggart was linked to brace yourself! Well, not exactly. He's still hurling rhetorical fire and brimstone on TV, radio and online, albeit on a much smaller scale. Mental Floss: 10 aphrodisiacs around the world.
He began giving yoga lessons on the side and ended up training several thousand people, who in turn became yoga instructors around the country. With his followers calling him "guru dev," or "beloved teacher," one of the things Desai taught at the yoga center he founded in Massachusetts in was that celibacy was spiritually mandatory for unmarried people.
ABC News reported on Friday that New Orleans minister Marvin Gorman was believed to have told church leaders that he had photographs showing that Swaggart had visited a prostitute at a motel room. Gorman admitted to one affair but said God forgave him for it. The suit was dismissed a few months later by a civil district judge. Forrest H. The Assemblies of God, which has 30, ministers and nearly 11, churches in the United States, is the largest Pentecostal denomination in the world with 16 million members.
The Bakker scandal had no appreciable impact on financial contributions or membership growth, Turnage said. Please, please forgive me. The Rev. Maybe Jimmy Swaggart has tried to live his entire life as though he is not human.
Eleven months ago, Swaggart indicated that such contrition was called for in the Jim Bakker case but that he did not believe that Bakker had really confessed.
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