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<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>Pat, Donovan, Others would might possibly
have been confused,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>If you read the postings you object to
carefully, you will see they were about <STRONG>hypocrisy</STRONG> --
saying one thing, like the <STRONG>pope</STRONG> did this week about child
sexual abuse but condoning the protection of the offenders or
<STRONG>Crouch's</STRONG> money and organization supporting hateful
rants about homosexuality -- but doing another.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>Recognizing <STRONG>hypocrisy in high
places</STRONG> is an important step in trying to eliminate it and in
recognizing the real character of those in high places who practice it.
Apply the same principle on the local level -- see Captain Kirker's last
posting.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>Wayne</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>----- Original Message ----- </FONT>
<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>From: "Donovan Arnold" <</FONT><A
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<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>To: <</FONT><A
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<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 4:39
PM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] 09-12-04 LA
Times: Televangelist PaulCrouchAttemptsto Keep Accuser Quiet</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref"><BR><FONT size=4></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT
face="Verdana Ref" size=4>| While I am probably the least inclined to agree with
Ms. Kraut. I am too <BR>| confused as to the purpose of these two postings.<BR>|
<BR>| I think it is hurtful, offensive, and painful to both and Gays and <BR>|
Catholics. Why is being gay something shameful, and what do you want <BR>|
Catholics to do about something that happened 20-40 years ago that is not in
<BR>| their control anyway?<BR>| <BR>| Donovan J Arnold<BR>| <BR>| <BR>|
>From: "Pat Kraut" <</FONT><A href="mailto:pkraut@moscow.com"><FONT
face="Verdana Ref" size=4>pkraut@moscow.com</FONT></A><FONT face="Verdana Ref"
size=4>><BR>| >To: "vision2020" <</FONT><A
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>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] 09-12-04 LA Times: Televangelist Paul <BR>|
>CrouchAttemptsto Keep Accuser Quiet<BR>| >Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 13:00:39
-0700<BR>| ><BR>| >I'm not sure I understand your posting these two tragic
stores. I do know <BR>| >that everyone and I do mean everyone who is taking
coke lies about so many <BR>| >things it is impossible to keep track. Crouch
had lived a great life and <BR>| >may just be trying to keep people like you
from hearing about this and <BR>| >believing it without real evidence to the
contrary. But, you believe what <BR>| >you want to. As to the catholic church
and their super bad behavior in this <BR>| >area we already know. Are you
just trying to rub salt into the wound or do <BR>| >you think you are
actually helping the problem? I thank you for your fine <BR>| >research
though.<BR>| >PK<BR>| ><BR>| > ----- Original Message
-----<BR>| > From: Art Deco aka W. Fox<BR>| > To:
Vision 2020<BR>| > Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 9:23 AM<BR>|
> Subject: [Vision2020] 09-12-04 LA Times: Televangelist Paul
Crouch <BR>| >Attemptsto Keep Accuser Quiet<BR>| ><BR>| ><BR>|
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face="Verdana Ref" size=4>| > Televangelist Paul Crouch Attempts
to Keep Accuser Quiet<BR>| > A former worker at TBN threatened to
disclose an alleged 1996 homosexual <BR>| >encounter.<BR>| >
By William Lobdell<BR>| > Times Staff Writer<BR>| ><BR>|
> September 12, 2004<BR>| ><BR>| >
Televangelist Paul Crouch, founder of the world's largest Christian <BR>|
>broadcasting network, has waged a fierce legal battle to prevent a former
<BR>| >employee from publicizing allegations that he and Crouch had a sexual
<BR>| >encounter eight years ago.<BR>| ><BR>| > Crouch, 70,
is the president of Trinity Broadcasting Network, based in <BR>| >Orange
County, whose Christian programming reaches millions of viewers <BR>| >around
the world via satellite, cable and broadcast stations.<BR>| ><BR>|
> The source of the allegations against him is Enoch Lonnie Ford,
who met <BR>| >Crouch at a TBN-affiliated drug treatment center in 1991 and
later went to <BR>| >work for the ministry.<BR>| ><BR>| >
After Ford threatened to sue TBN in 1998, claiming that he had been <BR>|
>unjustly fired, Crouch reached a $425,000 settlement with him. In return,
<BR>| >Ford agreed, among other things, not to discuss his claim about a
sexual <BR>| >encounter with the TV preacher.<BR>| ><BR>| >
But in the last year, Ford has threatened to go public with his story, <BR>|
>prompting a flurry of legal maneuvers - conducted in closed court hearings,
<BR>| >sealed pleadings and private arbitration.<BR>| ><BR>|
> In court papers, Crouch has denied the allegations, and
ministry <BR>| >officials have described Ford - who has a history of drug
problems and has <BR>| >served time for a sex offense - as a liar and an
extortionist.<BR>| ><BR>| > At stake are the public image of
one of the world's most successful <BR>| >televangelists and, potentially,
the fortunes of the broadcasting empire <BR>| >that Crouch and his wife, Jan,
built over the last 31 years.<BR>| ><BR>| > TBN and Crouch
went on the legal offensive after they learned that Ford <BR>| >had written a
book manuscript that included an account of the alleged <BR>| >sexual
encounter.<BR>| ><BR>| > In a dramatic flourish, Ford had
appeared at a TBN broadcast studio in <BR>| >Costa Mesa, minutes before the
start of a "Praise-a-thon" fundraiser, and, <BR>| >without comment, handed
Crouch a copy of the manuscript<BR>| ><BR>| > Ford's lawyer
later told ministry officials that they could keep the <BR>| >work out of
public view by buying the rights. After some discussion, he <BR>| >suggested
that $10 million might be a reasonable price.<BR>| ><BR>| >
While negotiations continued, Crouch sued to enforce the 1998 secrecy <BR>|
>agreement and obtained a restraining order barring Ford from seeking a <BR>|
>publisher for his book.<BR>| ><BR>| > Orange County
Superior Court Judge John M. Watson also granted Crouch's <BR>| >request to
conduct the case in secret, sealing all documents and expunging <BR>| >any
mention of the suit from public court records.<BR>| ><BR>| >
Both sides eventually agreed to let a private arbitrator decide the <BR>|
>matter. In June, the arbitrator ruled that Ford could not publish the <BR>|
>manuscript without violating the 1998 settlement - an act that could <BR>|
>subject him to monetary damages.<BR>| ><BR>| > This
account of the controversy is drawn from interviews with friends of <BR>|
>Ford's, unsealed court records, correspondence among TBN lawyers and a copy
<BR>| >of the arbitrator's confidential ruling. The arbitrator's decision
contains <BR>| >details about the 1998 settlement and Ford's manuscript -
both of which are <BR>| >under seal.<BR>| ><BR>| > Records
and interviews show that even as they battled to keep Ford's <BR>| >story
from leaking, TBN lawyers worried that details would eventually come <BR>|
>out.<BR>| ><BR>| > "I am absolutely amazed that Lonnie
hasn't gone to Penthouse or Dianne <BR>| >[sic] Sawyer with his manuscript,
notwithstanding the [judge's] <BR>| >injunction," TBN attorney Dennis G.
Brewer Sr. wrote in a March letter to <BR>| >the network's other
lawyers.<BR>| ><BR>| > In a subsequent letter, in May, Brewer
mentioned the anguish that Ford's <BR>| >accusations had caused Crouch's
youngest son, Matt, when he learned of them <BR>| >in 1998.<BR>| ><BR>|
> Brewer wrote that the younger Crouch had told his then-law
partner, <BR>| >David Middlebrook: "I am devastated; I am confronted with
having to face <BR>| >the fact that my father is a homosexual."<BR>|
><BR>| > Middlebrook and Matt Crouch have denied that there
was such a <BR>| >conversation.<BR>| ><BR>| > Millions of
Viewers<BR>| ><BR>| > Paul and Jan Crouch started TBN in 1973,
using a rented studio in Santa <BR>| >Ana. Over the next three decades, they
built a worldwide broadcasting <BR>| >network by buying TV stations and
negotiating deals with cable systems and <BR>| >satellite companies.<BR>|
><BR>| > Today, TBN's 24-hour-a-day menu of sermons, faith
healing, inspirational <BR>| >movies and other Christian fare reaches
millions of viewers from Spain to <BR>| >the Solomon Islands.<BR>| ><BR>|
> Paul Crouch is the driving entrepreneurial force behind the
network and <BR>| >one of its most popular on-air personalities. He and Jan,
his wife of 46 <BR>| >years, have cultivated a folksy on-screen image as a
devoted couple.<BR>| ><BR>| > TBN officials have long been
concerned about how Ford's allegations <BR>| >could affect the network, which
relies heavily on donations from viewers. <BR>| >Officials said they were
particularly worried about possible comparisons to <BR>| >the scandal that
brought down televangelist Jim Bakker in 1987.<BR>| ><BR>| >
Bakker resigned from his PTL Ministries in 1987 after admitting to <BR>|
>paying a secretary $265,000 in ministry funds to be silent about an earlier
<BR>| >affair. Bakker later went to prison for bilking donors.<BR>| ><BR>|
> TBN officials said they were careful not to pay Ford with
ministry funds <BR>| >in 1998. They declined to say whether the money came
from an insurer, <BR>| >Crouch personally or some other source.<BR>|
><BR>| > Ford, 41, said he could not discuss his manuscript or
his allegations <BR>| >against Crouch but he did provide basic facts about
his background and his <BR>| >time at TBN.<BR>| ><BR>| >
Ford, whose father and grandfather were ministers, grew up in Fairfax <BR>|
>County, Va., moved to California in 1989 and worked in a string of jobs
<BR>| >that included jewelry salesman, produce clerk and gas station
attendant. <BR>| >For years, he struggled to kick a cocaine habit.<BR>|
><BR>| > In 1991, he checked into a Christian drug treatment
program in <BR>| >Colleyville, Texas, on a TBN-owned ranch. It was there that
Ford met <BR>| >Crouch. In 1992 the network hired him to work on a phone bank
in Orange <BR>| >County. Ford said he also ran errands for the Crouches and
drove Paul <BR>| >Crouch to appointments.<BR>| ><BR>| >
Ford repeatedly ran into trouble with the law, but TBN stood behind him. <BR>|
>In 1994, he pleaded no contest in San Bernardino County to having sex with
<BR>| >a 17-year-old boy and served six months in jail, according to court
<BR>| >records. TBN took him back after his release.<BR>| ><BR>|
> In 1995, he pleaded guilty in Orange County to possession of
cocaine and <BR>| >served about 30 days in County Jail. Again, TBN took him
back.<BR>| ><BR>| > Lake Arrowhead Cabin<BR>| ><BR>|
> The alleged sexual encounter between Ford and Crouch occurred
in the <BR>| >fall of 1996, according to Sandi Mahlow, a Tustin housewife who
met Ford in <BR>| >a Fullerton church 10 years ago and became a close
friend.<BR>| ><BR>| > Mahlow, 50, who helped Ford write his
manuscript, said he broke down in <BR>| >tears after returning from a weekend
spent alone with Crouch at a TBN-owned <BR>| >cabin near Lake Arrowhead.
Mahlow said Ford told her that he and Crouch had <BR>| >engaged in sexual
acts.<BR>| ><BR>| > "Lonnie had a lot of bad traits; one thing
he isn't, and that's a liar," <BR>| >Mahlow said. She said she helped Ford
with his manuscript for no pay, as a <BR>| >favor to a friend, and has no
financial interest in the book.<BR>| ><BR>| > After the
alleged encounter, Ford continued to work at TBN. For a time, <BR>| >he lived
rent-free in an apartment at the network's Tustin headquarters, <BR>|
>according to Mahlow and another friend of Ford's, Diane Benson, who met him
<BR>| >at an Anaheim church 14 years ago.<BR>| ><BR>| > A
third friend of Ford's said that in October 1996, about the time of <BR>|
>the alleged Arrowhead encounter, ministry officials gave her a $12,000 <BR>|
>check to pay back money Ford owed her. The woman spoke on condition that
<BR>| >she not be named, saying she feared retaliation.<BR>| ><BR>|
> TBN officials acknowledged that the ministry paid some of
Ford's debts. <BR>| >They said the network commonly extends such generosity
to employees in <BR>| >financial trouble.<BR>| ><BR>| >
Within weeks of the Arrowhead trip, Ford tested positive for drug use <BR>|
>and was arrested for violating terms of his probation. While Ford awaited
<BR>| >sentencing, the ministry again came to his support, urging the judge
not to <BR>| >impose more prison time.<BR>| ><BR>| > Ford
"has continuously shown a very positive attitude regarding whatever <BR>| >we
have asked him to do," wrote Ruth M. Brown, Paul Crouch's sister and <BR>|
>TBN's director of personnel. "He carried out his duties cheerfully and <BR>|
>always tries to do more than asked."<BR>| ><BR>| > The
judge sent Ford to the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco, a <BR>|
>drug treatment facility in the state prison system.<BR>| ><BR>|
> In August 1997, Jay Jones, TBN's director of telephone
ministry, wrote <BR>| >prison officials that Ford would have a job with the
network after he got <BR>| >out, despite his "extended leave of
absence."<BR>| ><BR>| > But Ford said that after he was
released in February 1998, he was told <BR>| >he no longer had a position at
TBN.<BR>| ><BR>| > "There comes a point in time when you have
to say, 'Enough is enough,' " <BR>| >said John Casoria, a TBN lawyer who is a
nephew of the Crouches.<BR>| ><BR>| > Ford responded with his
threat to sue. The settlement followed.<BR>| ><BR>| > Despite
TBN's efforts to keep Ford's charges secret, they surfaced in an <BR>|
>unrelated 1998 lawsuit. A former bodyguard for TBN personality Benny Hinn
<BR>| >testified in a deposition that during a European bus tour that year,
Hinn <BR>| >had told a group of associates about "a sexual relationship that
Paul <BR>| >Crouch had with his chauffeur."<BR>| ><BR>| >
The witness, Mario C. Licciardello, quoted Hinn as saying: "Paul's <BR>|
>defense was that he was drunk."<BR>| ><BR>| > Hinn and six
others mentioned by Licciardello, who died in 2000, told <BR>| >The Times
that Hinn never made such remarks. However, Rick Jones, a retired <BR>|
>police officer and ordained minister who worked for Hinn, said he heard
<BR>| >Hinn talk about Crouch's alleged homosexual relationship on that
bus.<BR>| ><BR>| > Jones said he was disgusted by the talk and
"got up and walked away. I <BR>| >didn't want to hear gossip."<BR>| ><BR>|
> Asking $10 Million<BR>| ><BR>| > Meanwhile,
Ford began to have second thoughts about keeping silent. Last <BR>| >year,
with Mahlow's help, he wrote his manuscript, titled "Arrowhead."<BR>| ><BR>|
> Friends said Ford wanted to expose what he viewed as Crouch's
hypocrisy. <BR>| >They said he also needed money and hoped to earn some by
selling the <BR>| >manuscript. It's unclear how Ford spent his 1998
settlement, but today he <BR>| >leads a modest existence, living in a room of
a Lake Forest home and <BR>| >working as a mortgage salesman.<BR>| ><BR>|
> Ministry officials learned of the book in April 2003, when Ford
walked <BR>| >onto the set of TBN's Costa Mesa broadcast studio and handed a
copy of the <BR>| >manuscript to Crouch.<BR>| ><BR>| >
Ford's attorney, Eugene Zech, said that Brewer, the TBN lawyer, called <BR>|
>him the next business day. In court papers, Zech said that Brewer asked "if
<BR>| >Ford might be willing to accept $1 million in exchange for the
manuscript."<BR>| ><BR>| > Zech said in the court filing that
he suggested $10 million.<BR>| ><BR>| > When the parties went
to arbitration, Crouch's lawyers argued that <BR>| >publication would violate
the 1998 settlement and cause irreparable damage <BR>| >to Crouch's
reputation. Ford's lawyers argued that the secrecy agreement <BR>| >was
overly broad and violated his free-speech rights.<BR>| ><BR>|
> Arbitrator Robert J. Neill ruled that Ford's right to make his
<BR>| >allegations public "was sold to [Crouch] for $425,000." Ford
"bargained <BR>| >away his right to speak on certain matters and now suggests
that his right <BR>| >to free speech trumps that bargain.. [His] right to
discuss these matters <BR>| >was bought and paid for. He relinquished that
right."<BR>| ><BR>| > Paul Crouch Jr., a TBN executive and the
televangelist's oldest son, <BR>| >said that despite the favorable ruling, he
wished his father had never <BR>| >entered into the settlement with
Ford.<BR>| ><BR>| > Crouch said advisors persuaded his father
that it would be cheaper to <BR>| >settle than to litigate. He said TBN was
particularly anxious to avoid <BR>| >negative publicity because the ministry
was celebrating its 25th <BR>| >anniversary that year.<BR>| ><BR>|
> "In hindsight, we should have fought Lonnie tooth and nail,"
the son <BR>| >said in an interview. "We should have drawn the battle lines
right there."<BR>| ><BR>| ><BR>|
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