Tammy Faye Bakker Messner Stops Cancer Treatments
Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, co-founder of the massively fraudulent PTL televangelism ministry, has stopped her cancer treatments. (I was not aware she was sick.)
From Yahoo/Planet OUT:
Messner and her first husband, former DJ Jim Bakker, grew famous in the 1970s for “PTL” (for “Praise the Lord”), the televised ministry they founded with Jerry Falwell, and for the opulent lifestyle that viewers’ donations afforded them. Amid financial scandals and Jim Bakker’s affair with church secretary Jessica Hahn, the Bakkers went bankrupt in 1988 and their TV ministry was taken over by Falwell.
Jim Bakker went to jail (where he began a book, “I Was Wrong”) and Tammy Faye rebounded.
She had always counseled tolerance of gays, in strong contrast to Falwell and other religious-right figures; now, among her media projects was a 1996 talk show co-hosted by out gay actor Jim J. Bullock. She left the show to focus on treating her recently diagnosed colon cancer. In 2004, she appeared on the reality TV show “The Surreal Life.”
A 1999 documentary by out directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” was a hit with gay audiences. Meissner returned the love, premiering a 2004 sequel at San Francisco’s Castro Theater, on whose famous rising organ she played the evangelical anthem “Power in the Blood.”
Religion is inherently anti-science because it places faith above evidence. We’d have a cure for cancer and many other diseases by now if people spent their money and energy on science instead of religion.
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May 10th, 2007 at 11:45 am
thank you for the concern over tammy faye bakker messner,but one thing ,jerry falwell did not,and is not and never was a founder of ptl heritage usa,he took it over when jim resigned temporarely til things blew over,because they thought there was going to be a hostile takeover comeing from jimmy swaggart,please,tammy has been thru enough by jerry falwell,get your facts straight please,and i don,t mean to be rude,but jerry falwell doesn,t deserve that credit for the makeing of ptl heritage usa,what he does deserve is the credit of destroying it.
July 19th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
I so agree with brother Randy. Despite all of the accusations and things that were wrong with PTL….both Tammy and Jim did many good things for people. What a shame they can’t be forgiven for their foibles and thought kindly of for the many people they did help.
Nell
August 23rd, 2007 at 3:56 am
Rest In Peace, Tammy Faye. Someday the body of Christ will be reunited together in Heaven. What a wonderful day that will be.
I also want to say that no matter what anybody says, Jim and Tammy’s ministry did touch many lives, I am one of them. God is a God of second chances, and only He has the right to judge anybody.