Jim Bakker Claims Preachers Being Killed Over 'Don’t Say Gay' Support
Florida’s “don’t say gay” law. Bakker made the comments on a recent episode of his daily program, The Jim Bakker Show. The statements were first reported by Right Wing Watch.“They call it ‘don’t say gay’ and it’s not true.
It’s not even in the law. It says nothing,” Bakker said in the clip tweeted by Right Wing Watch.“No. Don’t get us started on all this, Jim,” cohost and second wife Lori Bakker interrupted. “Yes, no.”“I’m asking the wisdom here of what to do,” Bakker continued. “Because I get fought on every hand if I mention anything, and it’s going to be preachers that we’re not going to be able to preach much longer, because they’ll shoot us in the pulpit.
They will kill us in our pulpits. You don’t believe me? They’re already doing it.” Bakker and his ex-wife, Tammy Faye Bakker, rose to fame as cohosts The PTL Club during the 1970s and ‘80s.
His televangelist empire came crashing down following an extramarital affair in 1987.He later served time in prison for defrauding his church followers.
