The TV evangelist served on the board (with upstanding folks like Jerry Falwell) of the American Coalition for Traditional Values, which called on politicians to sign a pledge promising never to accept campaign contributions from gay people. His college had waiting lists to get in, filled with folks who wanted to preach the gospel like good old Brother Swaggart. His Family Worship Center compound still takes up both sides of the block on Bluebonnet Road in Baton Rouge. His name was mentioned in Fundie circles as "a true man of God," someone to be like, and to some an incarnation of Jesus himself. Towards the late 1980s, Swaggart appeared unstoppable. While his focus was on music and a brand of Pentecostal teachings, eventually the shows changed as the Christian contemporary music fad became more popular. With this new influx of cash, he built his Family Worship Center, which grew exponentially over the next decades with more and more brainwashed converts. After getting actually ordained by the Assemblies of God, he put out a radio show that got snapped up by numerous radio stations throughout the Fundie Bible Belt of the Deep South.
Swaggart stupidly refused, claiming to be a "true believer," and continued onward. His cousin, the famous singer Jerry Lee Lewis, tried to help him out with a recording deal to get him out of poverty since Swaggart was a passable musician. He lived in church basements and held revivals in backwater rural Louisiana towns through much of the 1950s. Preacherhood came to Swaggart at an early age. His headquarters is called Family Worship Center based out of Baton Rouge, LA. Jimmy Swaggart (born March 15, 1935) is a Pentecostal televangelist. “ ”Swaggart has been caught with his trousers round his knees / after damning you and me to hell for eternity
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