Jimmy Swaggart breached guidlines.

[SteveMacD]

Televangelist breached guidelines: TV standards council
CBC Arts


When televangelist Jimmy Swaggart said he would kill a homosexual who looked at him romantically, he violated the ethics code of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, an industry panel has ruled.

Swaggart made the remarks during a discussion of same-sex marriage on a Sept. 12 broadcast that was carried by the Toronto station Omni 1.

"I'm going to be blunt and plain: If one ever looks at me like that, I'm going to kill him and tell God he died," Swaggart said.

Swaggart also said that politicians who are undecided on the issue of same-sex marriage "all oughta have to marry a pig and live with him forever."

The comments prompted a complaint that was filed with the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, the arm of the CAB that deals with viewer feedback.

A few days later, Swaggart backtracked, saying the expression was a figurative one. He said he has used the expression "killing someone and telling God he died" in jest thousands of times.

"If it's an insult, I certainly didn't think it was, but if they are offended, then I certainly offer an apology," he told the Associated Press.

The council ruled that Omni 1 was entitled to broadcast Swaggart's views opposing same-sex marriage, as well as his criticism of politicians who take no stand.

But it added that the station breached the CAB's human rights and religious programming clauses "on the basis of Swaggart's suggestion that killing someone would be the proper way for one to respond to homosexuality."

The panel said the debate over same-sex marriage is "more than legitimate" and "democratically essential" but said Swaggart's "negativity" was "visceral."

"The problem of Swaggart's language is, in a sense, exacerbated by the fact that he, as a religious figure, can be presumed to set an example for his community. It would, therefore, be easy for someone to infer that this might be the proper way for a Christian of this sect (or possibly of any sect) to respond to homosexuality," the ruling added.

Omni 1 issued an on-air apology shortly after the broadcast, so it is not required to broadcast the council's decision.

Both the CAB and CBSC are non-governmental organizations.
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For those who forgot, Jimmy Swaggart got into BIG trouble for getting caught with a hooker. He had to go on television and deliver an embarrassingly tearful apology, saying "I have sinned against you." In any event, yet ANOTHER thing to love about Canada.

[strandinthewind]

This from the man who has been busted for hiring more than one prostitute and gave the Academy Award winning "I HAVE SIIIIINNNND" speech This fuc*tard lives about ann hour from where I grew up is is known to be a complete a$$hole. Oh well, par for the course for this ilk.

[strandinthewind]

Here is some dirt on this a$$hole:

Jimmy Swaggart
Jimmy Swaggart (born March 15, 1935 in Ferriday, Louisiana) was a popular televangelist in the 1980s and a pioneer in that medium.

He is the cousin of rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis and country musician Mickey Gilley, all three of whom played the piano.

Swaggart accumulated power and fame while picking fights with virtually anyone who didn't view the world in his own way. He picked fights with Catholics, Calvinists, and the then new contemporary Christian music scene through his monthly magazine, The Evangelist.

Swaggart was also involved in two public controversies with other evangelists. When the PTL scandal destroyed fellow Assemblies of God minister Jim Bakker, Swaggart publicly denounced Bakker as "a cancer on the body of Christ." Later that year, Swaggart destroyed a rival evangelist, Marvin Gorman, over an affair Gorman had. Gorman retaliated because he knew Swaggart was doing the same thing. In 1987, Swaggart was involved with a prostitute at a Baton Rouge hotel when Gorman and some associates flattened Swaggart's tires, went and got cameras, and took photographs of Swaggart exiting the hotel with the prostitute. Gorman confronted Swaggart and told him he would have to come clean. Swaggart said he would but then refused to do so. Only after much wraggling did Gorman take copies of the photographs to the Assemblies of God headquarters in Springfield, Missouri. The story broke on February 20, 1988, four months after Swaggart had promised to confess his sin.

On February 21, 1988, on his television show taped in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Swaggart confessed that he was guilty of an unspecified sin and would be temporarily leaving the pulpit. The "unspecified sin" was an affair with a prostitute. Swaggart lost much of his audience and much of his influence. To add to the comedy of televangelist errors, Swaggart blamed his problems on "demons" and claimed that controversial evangelist Oral Roberts had "cast out the demons" over the phone, thus assuring Swaggart was now free of moral defect. (This story is told in Mike Horton's, "The Agony of Deceit").

In November 1991, he was stopped for speeding. In the car with him was another prostitute. Soon after, he was told to leave the church he pastored, but he did not do so. Swaggart kept his church and began preaching again years later. In 1995, Swaggart was again pulled over this time in California with a prostitute in the car.

On a positive front, it was noted he was among one of the few dedicated Pirates' fans. He had season tickets for the CFL's Shreveport Pirates. It was noted that he would drive two hours from Baton Rouge to Shreveport to watch the team play.

In 2002, the heirs of Pentecostal Bible teacher Finis Jennings Dake filed a plagiarism suit against Swaggart for failing to gain their permission before publishing some of Dake's materials. That lawsuit is pending at present.

Now he has "made his life right with God" and preaches a message called "the Cross" which says that the only way to Heaven is through the death of Jesus. He opposes such movements as "G12 Vision" and "Purpose Driven Life."

http://www.answers.com/topic/jimmy-swaggart

I shudder to think people send this crook money and think this tripe has a direct link to God.

[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

"If it's an insult, I certainly didn't think it was, but if they are offended, then I certainly offer an apology," he told the Associated Press.

Gee Jimmy, I can't imagine how someone would've interpreted a threat to kill people as an insult or an offensive statement. Got me. By the way, thanks for making Louisiana look so good. Just like Britney.

I can't believe he thinks he is in a position to point fingers at people. And whenever someone's that adamant about a person of the same sex not even looking at him or her, that just reek of repressed homosexuality to me.

[GODDESS6]

wow, i always knew he was an idiot, but i didn't know all this stuff, thanx for enlighting me on this imbecile, asinine, backward, deranged, dim-witted, dull, fatuous, feeble-minded, foolish, half-witted, idiotic, imbecilic, inane, ludicrous, moronic, retarded, simple, simpleminded, slow, thick, witless A-Hole!!!~

[wondergirl9847]

"I'm going to be blunt and plain: If one ever looks at me like that, I'm going to kill him and tell God he died," Swaggart said.

Right, because we all know that God can't hear and see EVERYTHING that goes on in the world.

BTW, the people who curse others the loudest for doing things are most likely, doing it themselves...and whatdayaknow.

He was against contemporary Christian music?!!?! Whatevah dude.

[SuzeQuze]

Not only dumb but psycho.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

Swaggart also said that politicians who are undecided on the issue of same-sex marriage "all oughta have to marry a pig and live with him forever."

I think that statement right there pretty much sums up the mental capacity of Jimmy Swaggart.

[seeker007nmss]

And yet people still send him money.............

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by seeker007nmss

And yet people still send him money.............

I am going to burn in Hell for this, but my best friend in college's brother was a born again fundamentalist Christian preacherman who would send cash to Swaggart in the 80's. We would, intercept the envelope and go drinking on said cash WATCH OUT FOR THAT LIGHTENING BOLT

[skcin]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

I am going to burn in Hell for this, but my best friend in college's brother was a born again fundamentalist Christian preacherman who would send cash to Swaggart in the 80's. We would, intercept the envelope and go drinking on said cash WATCH OUT FOR THAT LIGHTENING BOLT

WOOHOO! PAR-TAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chiliD]

Jimmy sure makes his cousin Jerry Lee look like a choirboy and we KNOW what kind of public shenanigans HE pulled off.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by chiliD

Jimmy sure makes his cousin Jerry Lee look like a choirboy and we KNOW what kind of public shenanigans HE pulled off.

Are we talking about the trail of dead wives?

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

I am going to burn in Hell for this, but my best friend in college's brother was a born again fundamentalist Christian preacherman who would send cash to Swaggart in the 80's. We would, intercept the envelope and go drinking on said cash WATCH OUT FOR THAT LIGHTENING BOLT

Ha! I've heard that God is pretty forgiving.

[JazmenFlowers]

I have stumbled on his TV show a few times and am amazed at how someone can be so filled with hate and anger. He is a sad individual and I know that the higher power I believe in is not on the same wavelengths as this nimrod.

An episode I watched was just Jimmy ranting and raving about how bad the internet is and that no one should have it...then he said, "because I don't trust myself." Seems to me that he constantly opens mouth to insert foot.