Reply #44: Paul Crouch of TBN has been accused of being gay and harassing

[bobbieinok]

someone.

http://www.rickross.org/reference/tbn/tbn22.html


Los Angeles Times/September 22, 2004
By William Lobdell
A former Trinity Broadcasting Network employee who was paid $425,000 to keep quiet about his claims of a homosexual tryst with televangelist Paul Crouch has disclosed details of his complaint, saying that he had felt forced to engage in the alleged sexual acts to keep his job.

Enoch Lonnie Ford, 41, said he was going public with his story because he believes TBN officials breached a confidentiality agreement that was part of a 1998 settlement that provided the payment to him. Network officials broke the agreement, he contends, by issuing a statement last week responding to a news account of the ministry's legal effort to silence him. TBN's statement described the circumstances of the settlement and highlighted Ford's criminal background.

Crouch, 70, is president and popular on-air personality of Orange County-based TBN, the world's largest religious broadcaster.

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I was really surprised when I came across this on the internet. IMO, few if any of those who watch TBN are aware of this.

BTW, this is a MAJOR site for info on the religious right/dominionists

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TBN produces movies; a major one has been about Queen Esther 'One Night with the King.'

http://www.tbn.org/about/newsletter/index.php/577.html

(from TBN March 2005 newsletter)

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