Rival televangelists weaponized adultery accusations against each other

Evidence

In 1988, Swaggart himself was caught cavorting with a prostitute by none other than Marvin Gorman, who enjoyed a sweet revenge when Swaggart, too, was defrocked. A few years later, Swaggart would again be caught with a prostitute, but rather than confessing, he would tell his congregation, “The Lord told me it’s flat none of your business.” — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 301

Categorization

• CANDY: Swaggart’s ‘The Lord told me it’s flat none of your business’ is a genuinely funny, tweetable line.
• QUESTION: This mutual-accusation dynamic among televangelists — Gorman, Swaggart, Bakker all defrocked this way — raises curiosity about how evangelical rank-and-file reconciled competing prophetic figures.
• XREF: connects to: Televangelist sex scandals in the 1980s rattled evangelical moral confidence — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 298; Televangelist sex scandals discredited evangelical celebrity heroes in the 1980s — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 302; Rival excluded groups weaponized conspiracy accusations against each other. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 311
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Televangelist sex scandals in the 1980s rattled evangelical moral confidence — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 298; Televangelist sex scandals discredited evangelical celebrity heroes in the 1980s — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 302; Rival excluded groups weaponized conspiracy accusations against each other. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 311