TV & VIDEO - July 27, 1987
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Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart wants a national policing organization that would punish television preachers who are dishonest and unethical in the handling of money, in wake of the PTL scandals and Oral Robert’s fund-raising shenanigans. Swaggart told an audience in Fort Worth last week that the policing organization could be set up through the National Assn. of Religious Broadcasters. “If people don’t straighten up, we would just kick them out,” he said. “It would just be that blunt.
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