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Maybe Telemundoh IS a TV evangelist, scamming gullibles for their cash,
living in a mansion while his "flock" are living in trailers, tithing
their 10% (Verified by their tax info, like a couple of the slimier
churches do around here). Money many of them need a lot more than the
preacher needs a new car, or the church needs a bigger, fancier
building.

Or like Tammy Faye Bakker needed a solid gold water fixture for her dog
in his dog house. :-(

Remember, the 'PTL' in her PTL Club stood for Pass The Loot.


I remember seeing PTL the first time, and I was nearly convinced it was
a put on. The first thing I saw was Tammy in mid melt down, with the
Raccoon eyes and mascara running down. I watched it every chance I got,
it was hilarious. I couldn't believe it when I read in some magazine
that Jim Bakker was considered one of the most sincere TV preachers. I
thought he was about the least sincere of them all.

Another chuckle is that Robertson fellow when he squints his eyes and
prays or whatever it is that he's doing that makes him look constipated.
http://www.bettybowers.com/graphics/patpray1.gif
http://www.bettybowers.com/graphics/patpray2.gif



LOL, that second pic is great! I had never heard of him until I watched
the end of the PTL club and the the 700 club came on. I could almost
feel the slime coming through my TV. One of the religious whackos I used
to work with told us that when Clinton was impeached, that old Pat would
run against Gore in 2000, and be the next POTUS. We laughed a long long
time over that one. He got very upset, and said, "You'll see!". Of
course, he was strangely silent when he didn't even get the GOP
nomination.

We have a real winner here locally, this guy, Michael Pitts:

http://www.cornerstonechurch.us/

He's into all kinds of stuff:

DATE: Sunday, November 30, 1997
EDITION: CITY FINAL
PAGE: A1
TYPE: SPECIAL REPORT

DESPITE INQUIRY, CHURCH SAYS PASTOR STILL ITS CORNERSTONE
JOKES RIDICULE PITTS; PRAYERS SUPPORT HIM

BY GEORGE J. TANBER BLADE STAFF WRITER

Pastor Robert Pitts is frustrated and weary.

He sits in his office at Cornerstone Church on Reynolds Road in South
Toledo, a congregation he and his brother, Pastor Michael Pitts, started
in 1987. Today it has 5,500 members. That makes Cornerstone one of the
area's largest churches.

And the wealthiest.

Its 58,000-square-foot Reynolds Road building, a former super drug
store, was remodeled at a cost of about $1.5 million and includes 30
classrooms. Its sanctuary looks like a movie set for The Pat Robertson
Story.

So Robert Pitts, 34, who serves as Cornerstone's de facto CEO, should be
feeling flush. He's not.

His 33-year-old brother, Lucas County's most well-known televangelist,
faces 10 misdemeanor counts of exposing himself in public.

Michael Pitts has court dates in Toledo, Wauseon, and Maumee during the
next several months. On Nov. 18, a Lucas County woman testified in
Toledo Municipal Court that Mr. Pitts masturbated in front of her in the
parking lot of a South Toledo store.

If found guilty, Mr. Pitts could face up to 30 days in jail and a $250
fine for each charge.

His arrests have been the talk of Toledo. Crude jokes about Mr. Pitts
have been making the rounds at bars, dinner tables, and office coffee
breaks.

Shortly after he was first charged, a "Mornings are the Pitts" billboard
went up in West Toledo with a photograph of radio jock Denny Schaffer
portraying the pastor with his pants down.

And unflattering imitations of Pastor Pitts made the rounds at Halloween
parties in Toledo and as far away as Kelleys Island.

"It's been difficult on our family seeing a brother, a son, face this
barrage of accusations," Robert Pitts said in his office, which is as
large and homey as a family den.

Robert Pitts has been spending much of his time conferring with his
brother's four attorneys and a private investigator, all of whom earn
$150 an hour and more, sources said.

As a result, the Pitts defense could end up being the most expensive
misdemeanor case in the history of Lucas County.

Even before his legal problems, Michael Pitts was one of the area's most
recognized pastors. His half-hour program, Present Truth, runs every
weekday on WUPW-TV, Channel 36, at 1:30 p.m. He has been featured in a
number of TV commercials promoting Cornerstone Church.

Michael Pitts, who declined to be interviewed for this article, has
pleaded not guilty to all charges.

"I feel like Elvis Presley. I'm being sighted at places I've never
been," he said in an earlier interview.

Although investigators and prosecutors spent months on the cases before
filing their charges, one piece of evidence in several of the incidents
in which Pastor Pitts is charged - a video investigators have said shows
him committing indecent acts near Oak Openings Metropark - is so unclear
that the person in it is unidentifiable.

Mr. Pitts's defense team also will raise the fact that a Lucas County
sheriff's deputy who bears a resemblance to Mr. Pitts has been charged
with a similar indecent exposure charge during the same period Mr. Pitts
is accused of exposing himself, sources said.

Despite the controversy surrounding their pastor, most Cornerstone
members have rallied around Mr. Pitts.

Many of them have declined to speak to the press.

The general feeling among them is that Mr. Pitts has been unfairly
maligned by the media, which has led to his negative image despite the
lack of any conviction.

"We love him. He's not guilty," said Vera Garman, a Cornerstone member
four years.

On Election Day at the Glendale-Feilbach Elementary School, one
Cornerstone member refused to be interviewed by a Blade reporter asking
her whom she voted for in the mayor's race.

She walked away, but soon returned to explain.

"I hope you realize the sins you're committing," said the woman, who did
not identify herself. "If you read the Bible, you know what happens to
people who try to hurt a man of God."

So the question remains, which is Pastor Michael Pitts - saint or
sinner?

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Somehow, the woman who claimed to see him masturbating, suddenly "wasn't
sure" when she was on the witness stand.

I wonder what she spent the money on?

I met him at a friend's party (He lived down the street then), and I had
no idea who or what he was, but he gave off such a creep vibe, I can't
believe there are so many who don't see and/or feel it.

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