In 2004, remarking on gay marriage, he said he would kill a gay man who looked at him a certain way. In 1991, he was caught with another prostitute in California.
His ministry has taken him across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe ( including Sweden, Norway. His ministry, now independent, continued, as did his occasional controversies. His dynamic and hard-hitting preaching style is all his own and having been involved in full time ministry for over 25 years, Donnie Swaggart continues to be passionate about the tremendous call that God has placed on his life. After the 1987 incident with New Orleans prostitute Debra Murphree was revealed in 1988, Swaggart’s ministerial credentials were revoked by his denomination, the Assemblies of God, when he refused a year-long disciplinary hiatus. By the 1980s, his Baton Rouge church had its own broadcast and publishing operations and a college. As a teenage evangelist and later as a pastor and traveling preacher, he used his commanding stage presence to emphasize submission to Jesus as the only way to escape human bondage to sin and Satan. At age 8, he drew his poor, rural Louisiana town’s attention when he mystically spoke in foreign tongues and uttered prophecies at a Pentecostal church revival.
Jimmy Swaggart’s stardom from religious telecasts and packed arena revivals was overshadowed when he was caught patronizing a prostitute and made a teary, televised confession.
