The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend: "a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).
"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist." (Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger." (MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
It's abandon ship for Suzanne Hinn, the wife of massive egomaniac and bilker of millions prosperity gospel proponent, Benny Hinn. She's citing irreconcilable differences. I'm kinda wondering how Benny can explain away this development, as there's a lot in the Bible about divorce.
Suzanne Hinn filed the papers on February 1 in Orange County Superior Court. She and Benny Hinn - who have been married for more than 30 years - separated on January 26, according to the filing.
I guess there are just some things that Benny can't heal through melodramatics.
The soon-to-be-former Mrs. Hinn probably knows about a lot of the skeletons in false prophet Hinn's closet regarding the scammery he has perpetrated on those in his flock who paid thousands of offerings to Mr. Hinn in exchange for being "healed" of fatal illnesses. From an earlier Blend post on his ministry, in what was one of the most pathetic beg-a-thons -- asking his faithful to open their wallets for a new private jet, Dove One:
This man has no conscience. We all know that some of these fundie ministries are nothing more than cash cows, with endless pleas for people on fixed incomes to give all they have to support "outreach" and soul saving.
Benny Hinn, who's been exposed as a fraud time and again (famously in 2002 on Dateline NBC), continues the shameless begging for dough to support his high-falutin' lifestyle. It's all justified because the sheeple are working through, him doncha know. He needed a new Gulfstream G4SP plane, which he has named, appropriately, Dove One. From his pathetic, unbelievably transparent donation page (my emphasis).
I have enclosed a beautiful photo-filled brochure to explain more about this incredible ministry tool that will increase the scope of our abilities to preach the Gospel around the globe. Now we must pay the remainder of the down payment, and I am asking the Lord Jesus to speak to 6,000 of my precious partners to sow a seed of $1,000 in the next ninety days. And I am praying, even as I write this letter, that you will be one of them! I know that as you obey the Lord, He will open heaven wide and cause a mighty harvest of blessings to descend upon your life and all that you do!
This next step is absolutely vital to everything we are called to do, and it is the only way I can continue to do all God is directing me to do during these prophetic days. There is simply no other possible way for me to keep up with my schedule.
Purchasing this incredible ministry tool is monumental and historic. We have never bought any plane with this much range or capability that will crisscross the globe repeatedly so I can present the Gospel in person to unprecedented millions of precious souls who will accept and come to know our wonderful Jesus as their eternal Savior.
...Your seed of $1,000 or more toward Dove One will reap a harvest for years. The G4SP is built to fly for decades. Imagine the harvest during all those years, and you will be a vital part of that long-term harvest!
Can't wait for her tell-all that will finally put this man out of business.
Well, well, what a surprise. Benny Hinn and the rest of the high-living preachers aren't cooperating with a probe by Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) into claims that the non-profit ministries are taking in money from their followers to fund lavish lifestyles.
Grassley had asked six televangelist ministries to turn over their financial statements and records to the Senate Finance Committee by December 6, 2007. The six ministries under investigation are led by Paula White, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, Eddie Long, Kenneth Copeland, and Benny Hinn.
But only Kenneth Copeland and Joyce Meyer have complied with Grassley's request. Creflo Dollar says he will not provide the information voluntarily and has raised the idea of a subpoena. Eddie Long has also said he is unwilling to cooperate, and Paula White has asked for additional time to respond. Grassley's office has not heard from Benny Hinn's attorneys since December 13, 2007.
Senator Grassley (R-Iowa) says in his past probes of non-profits he has always received full cooperation. "So I wonder, well, what do they have to hide? ... That's the first thought that comes to my mind. The second thing is that maybe they do have something to hide," he contemplates. "And maybe it's not so much illegal as being embarrassing."
...The conservative lawmaker argues the ministries are displaying a poor testimony with their lack of transparency, and are "not fulfilling their responsibility to the tax code and taxpayers" as well as to their own constituency.
Watch this incredible Dateline report on faith-healing scam artist Benny Hinn. I had never seen the whole thing. It's stomach-churning.
-- Hinn's salary is somewhere between $500K and a million dollars per year.
-- he has a $10 million seaside mansion,
-- he owns a private jet with annual operating costs of about $1.5 million (this is what is being replaced by Dove One)
-- and he drives a Mercedes SUV and convertible, valued at about $80,000 each. (He may have traded up by now.)
How could the fraud have gone on for so long before reaching the attention of Congress? More, including an update about Oral Roberts U. after the jump.
The scandal at Oral Roberts University has caused the escape hatch to open and all the sleazy merchants of commercial "Christianity" are sliding out and running for cover. (AP):
Two televangelists have resigned their posts as regents at Oral Roberts University, as the debt-ridden school tries to regroup following a spending scandal involving its former president. The university on Thursday also settled with one of three professors who filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the school.
Benny Hinn and I.V. Hilliard resigned as regents, where they were involved in making major school decisions, university spokesman Jeremy Burton said Thursday. Burton declined to say why the two resigned, but said both wrote the board to express their support for the school's mission.
The resignations come a month after the resignations from the board of regents of two other televangelists, Jesse Duplantis and Creflo Dollar.
Hinn and Dollar are among six televangelists being investigated by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley to determine if the high-profile preachers violated their organizations' tax-exempt status by living lavishly on the backs of small donors. They have denied wrongdoing.
Pious preachers rail on against moral failures in society, and fixate on what consenting adults do in their bedrooms or the ability of LGBT citizens to obtain equal rights. What they don't talk about from the pulpit is what's going on with the money coming from the pews -- and out in the TV audience. Perhaps that's a little inconvenient.
It hasn't gone unnoticed by Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee. He's taking a look at the books of some big-name Men of GodTM -- looking for possible financial misconduct. Go, baby.
Letters were sent Monday to the ministries demanding that financial statements and records be turned over to the committee by Dec. 6.
According to Grassley's office, the Iowa Republican is trying to determine whether or not these ministries are improperly using their tax-exempt status as churches to shield lavish lifestyles.
The six ministries identified as being under investigation by the committee are led by: Paula White, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, Eddie Long, Kenneth Copeland and Benny Hinn. Three of the six - Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland and Creflo Dollar - also sit on the Board of Regents for the Oral Roberts University.
The ministry watchdog Trinity Foundation, headed up by Ole Anthony, has been leading the charge against televangelists who rip off the flock.
"We've been working with them for two years," Anthony told CBS News. "We have furnished them with enough information to fill a small Volkswagen."
Anthony said after twenty years of working with media organizations to expose televangelists, he saw little reform. He says that's why he turned to another tactic, going straight to Grassley. He is confident that Grassley's inquiry will be different, "What we hope is that this will lead to reform in religious nonprofits."
Fun fact: homophobe Bishop Eddie Long of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church marched in Atlanta to "save marriage" with fellow homo-hater Reverend Bernice King back in 2004.
And not just conservative televangelists are under the gun. Read below the fold.
Purchasing this incredible ministry tool is monumental and historic. We have never bought any plane with this much range or capability that will crisscross the globe repeatedly so I can present the Gospel in person to unprecedented millions of precious souls who will accept and come to know our wonderful Jesus as their eternal Savior. Now is the time to move forward with Dove One. What we do for the sake of the Gospel, we must do now! -- Bogus "faith healer" and spewer of failed prophecies Benny Hinn, on why the sheeple should shell out buxxx so he can fly high.
This man has no conscience. We all know that some of these fundie ministries are nothing more than cash cows, with endless pleas for people on fixed incomes to give all they have to support "outreach" and soul saving.
Benny Hinn, who's been exposed as a fraud time and again (famously in 2002 on Dateline NBC), continues the shameless begging for dough to support his high-falutin' lifestyle. It's all justified because the sheeple are working through, him doncha know. He needed a new Gulfstream G4SP plane, which he has named, appropriately, Dove One. From his pathetic, unbelievably transparent donation page (my emphasis).
I have enclosed a beautiful photo-filled brochure to explain more about this incredible ministry tool that will increase the scope of our abilities to preach the Gospel around the globe. Now we must pay the remainder of the down payment, and I am asking the Lord Jesus to speak to 6,000 of my precious partners to sow a seed of $1,000 in the next ninety days. And I am praying, even as I write this letter, that you will be one of them!
I know that as you obey the Lord, He will open heaven wide and cause a mighty harvest of blessings to descend upon your life and all that you do!
This next step is absolutely vital to everything we are called to do, and it is the only way I can continue to do all God is directing me to do during these prophetic days. There is simply no other possible way for me to keep up with my schedule.
Purchasing this incredible ministry tool is monumental and historic. We have never bought any plane with this much range or capability that will crisscross the globe repeatedly so I can present the Gospel in person to unprecedented millions of precious souls who will accept and come to know our wonderful Jesus as their eternal Savior.
...Your seed of $1,000 or more toward Dove One will reap a harvest for years. The G4SP is built to fly for decades. Imagine the harvest during all those years, and you will be a vital part of that long-term harvest!
All major credit cards are accepted, of course. As a thank you gift, Benny will send you a "beautiful art-quality model of Dove One for your desk or mantle as a constant reminder that you are a vital part of this last-days harvest for souls," and your name will be inscribed on Dove One -- so you can fly with Benny -- in spirit.
But back to that Dateline report, which I remember vividly. The network has reported, for example:
-- Hinn's salary is somewhere between $500K and a million dollars per year.
-- he has a $10 million seaside mansion,
-- a private jet with annual operating costs of about $1.5 million (this is what is being replaced by Dove One)
-- and a Mercedes SUV and convertible, valued at about $80,000 each.
On his evangelical "healing" trips, Hinn has had "layovers" between crusades piling up hotel bills ranging from $900 per night to royal suites that cost almost $3,000 for one night's stay in lovely places such as: Hawaii, Cancun, London, and Milan.From The Theology of Benny Hinn, by Kim Riddleberger:
Claiming to possess the power of God in his hands, Hinn maintains that his personal "anointing" feels like electricity radiating through his extremities. Often, Hinn will call those in the audience, who claim that they have been healed, to come up onto the stage and testify about what they feel has happened to them during the emotionally charged crusade. Hinn may blow on them or "lay hands" upon them individually, slaying them in the spirit. If they persist in remaining on their feet--in a somewhat embarrassing situation for all parties involved--Hinn "slays" them in a rather aggressive manner, placing both of his hands upon them, then pushing them backwards into the arms of the waiting attendants who catch them. In the words of one reviewer, Hinn's ministry "bears all the marks of manipulative, staged performances."
How about some video fun of Benny healing the faithful on terra firma:
Even outlets like AgapePress have been willing to report on Hinn. From June of last year:
Ole Anthony -- president of the Trinity Foundation -- submitted a three-inch-think report to the Internal Revenue Service in an effort to show that Hinn's ministry failes to meet the IRS's definition of a church. Hinn started a church in Orlando in 1983, then sold it in 1999. However, Benny Hinn Ministries (BHM) is still classified as a church. Anthony has a problem with that. "Claiming himself to be a church, he doesn't have any accountability," he asserts.
"He has a revolving-door board of directors -- in comes somebody who disagrees with him, he changes the board; and so he's using that ministry [and] its well over a hundred million a year [that he is taking in] as his personal piggy bank." According to Anthony, Hinn lives in a $10 million parsonage, has charged to the ministry hotel rooms costing thousands of dollars a night, and provided thousands of dollars to family members for "shopping sprees." Anthony fears that Hinn's action are "going to bring down the real churches if he keeps up these kinds of excesses." The evangelist, he adds, has "absolutely no accountability -- he's just run amok." It is because of Hinn's refusal to be held accountable that MinistryWatch.com has issued a "Donor Alert" [PDF] encouraging donors to prayerfully consider withholding contributions to the ministry. BHM officials were given more than two weeks to comment on this story but did not return repeated requests for interviews.
