October 8, 2007

Tales From The Religious Reich

How ironic is it that Oral Roberts' son is named Dick? But wait, things change radically when one is doing the Lord's Work:

An ORU student repairing [the laptop of Stephanie Cantese, Richard Roberts’ sister-in-law] discovered the document and later provided a copy to one of the professors.
It details dozens of alleged instances of misconduct. Among them:
* A longtime maintenance employee was fired so that an underage male friend of Mrs. Roberts could have his position.
* Mrs. Roberts — who is a member of the board of regents and is referred to as ORU’s “first lady” on the university’s [sic] Web site — frequently had cell-phone bills of more than $800 per month, with hundreds of text messages sent between 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. to “underage males who had been provided phones at university expense.”
The university jet was used to take one daughter and several friends on a senior trip to Orlando, Fla., and the Bahamas. The $29,411 trip was billed to the ministry as an “evangelistic function of the president.”
Mrs. Roberts spent more than $39,000 at one Chico’s clothing store alone in less than a year, and had other accounts in Texas and California. She also repeatedly said, “As long as I wear it once on TV, we can charge it off.” (Matthew 6:5) The document cites inconsistencies in clothing purchases and actual usage on TV.
* University and ministry employees are regularly summoned to the Roberts’ home to do the daughters’ homework.
There once was a man named Oral.....whose son is about to go down....

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

How do we know she text'd the young men?

Julia B. said...

The best part was reading that Pastor Hagee from San Antonio is on the board and will be looking into these allegations.
Hagee is one of those "end-timers for Israel" a friend of disgraced former Rep. Tom DeLay, and has his own history of sex scandal, nepotism, and featherbedding.