In 2004, remarking on gay marriage, he said he would kill a gay man who looked at him a certain way. We would like to welcome you to what we feel is one of. Jimmy Swaggart, who last year condemned a fellow television evangelist, Jim Bakker, as ''a cancer on the body of Christ,'' today confessed to sins of his own and begged to be forgiven. According to SwaggartвЂ™s autobiography, they lived in poverty during the 1950s. Together, they have a son named Donnie Swaggart. The couple met in church while he was playing music with his father. In 1991, he was caught with another prostitute in California. Family Worship Center is both the home church and physical hub of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries. Swaggart married his wife Frances Anderson Swaggart in 1952 at the age of 17 whereas his wife was 15 years old. His ministry, now independent, continued, as did his occasional controversies. After the 1987 incident with New Orleans prostitute Debra Murphree was revealed in 1988, SwaggartвЂ™s ministerial credentials were revoked by his denomination, the Assemblies of God, when he refused a year-long disciplinary hiatus. By the 1980s, his Baton Rouge church had its own broadcast and publishing operations and a college. A two hour program featuring Jimmy Swaggart Evangelical Crusades filmed around the world, with music and preaching.

As a teenage evangelist and later as a pastor and traveling preacher, he used his commanding stage presence to emphasize submission to Jesus as the only way to escape human bondage to sin and Satan. At age 8, he drew his poor, rural Louisiana townвЂ™s attention when he mystically spoke in foreign tongues and uttered prophecies at a Pentecostal church revival. Jimmy SwaggartвЂ™s stardom from religious telecasts and packed arena revivals was overshadowed when he was caught patronizing a prostitute and made a teary, televised confession.

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