I wonder whether God has a full line of cosmetics in heaven?

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Oh dear time for a new breed of Evangelist, mayhap Kimmie will get a
calling, he is on a gilt trip!

Tammy Faye's last appeal
Anita Gates
July 23, 2007
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/07/22/1185042950496.html?from=top5
Partners in alms ... Tammy Faye Bakker and Jim Bakker with a TV audience
in 1986.

TAMMY FAYE BAKKER, the diminutive and elaborately coiffed gospel
singer who, with her first husband, Jim Bakker, built a commercial
empire around television evangelism only to see it collapse in sex and
money scandals, has died, aged 65.

Her death was reported on her website. She had been suffering from
colon cancer, which spread to her lungs.

On May 8, Tammy Faye Messner, as she had been known since her marriage
to Roe Messner, posted a letter on her website saying her weight had
dwindled to 30 kilograms and that doctors had stopped treatment. "Now
it's up to God and my faith," she wrote.

She and Bakker, an Assemblies of God minister, worked as travelling
evangelists in the early years of their marriage. He preached; she
sang and played the accordion. In 1974, they founded the Praise the
Lord network and achieved wide popularity as hosts of the syndicated
Jim and Tammy Show. At its peak, in the 1980s, the Praise the Lord
show reached as many as 13 million households, always to a drumbeat of
appeals for donations.

She appeared on camera in overstated outfits and heavy make-up. She
was openly emotional, whether praying for the health of an ailing
viewer or for generous financial contributions.

The Bakker business suffered a crippling blow in 1987, when it was
revealed that Jim Bakker had had a sexual encounter with Jessica Hahn,
a young church secretary, and had paid her $US265,000 to keep quiet.
He was stripped of his ministry. In 1989, Bakker was convicted of
charges he had bilked followers out of $US158 million by offering
lifetime holidays at Heritage USA, a religious theme park, while
knowing he could not provide them, and that he had diverted about
$US3.7 million to support an opulent lifestyle. The scandals forced
the Bakkers to shut down their PTL program and they lost Heritage
Village.

Three years later, she divorced Bakker, who was serving a 45-year
prison sentence. In 1993, she married Messner, a wealthy contractor
and former Bakker business associate, who was also convicted of
bankruptcy fraud.

Gay men came to embrace Mrs Messner as a camp figure, making her the
subject of gender-bending look-alike contests. "I refuse to label
people," she said. "We're all just people made out of the same old
dirt, and God didn't make any junk."

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