![]() It was Mr Gorman's claim that Brother Swaggart was the serious adulterer (compared with his own single lapse) that led to Friday's TV reports that photos exist showing Jimmy ministering to a prostitute. And at the height of last year's sex scandal which overwhelmed the Praise The Lord TV ministry of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, he sued Mr Swaggart for $90m – and joined those suggesting that the preacher had engineered similar charges in order to take over the Bakkers' then-thriving ministry. Mr Gorman was defrocked and went bankrupt. ![]() Though details of Mr Swaggart's "moral failure", with whom and how often, were conspicuously absent from yesterday's confession, the sin alluded to was plainly adultery or "immoral dalliances" as Mr Swaggart put it when he denounced his fellow pastor, Mr Martin Gorman, in 1986.
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