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    5 Virtuous Figures Caught With Their Flies Down (Or Skirts Up)

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    With Eliot Spitzer dominating today’s news, MentalFloss decided to look back at other so-called virtuous figures who became embroiled in sex scandals. 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 1988. Swaggart’s tearful, televised confession kept his $12-million-a-year, 10,000-employee religious empire together—until he got caught with his pants down again. That’s right, Jimmy Swaggart was linked to (brace yourself!) another hooker in 1991. Televangelists are like romantic comedies… you always know how they’re going to end.

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    Links and Other things from Twitter

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    5 Virtuous Figures Caught With Their Flies Down (Or Skirts Up)

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    The Bilerico Project | Daily experiments in LGBTQ wrote an interesting post today on Here’s a quick excerpt With Eliot Spitzer dominating today’s news, we decided to look back at other so-called virtuous figures who became embroiled in sex scandals. 1. Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944) By the mid-1920s, evangelist McPherson was packing them in at her Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, preaching hope and warning against the sinful life. But in 1926, she disappeared while swimming at a local beach. She turned up a month later with a fantastic story about being kidnapped and taken to Mexico. Unfortunate Get more information here