Opinion

TV preacher doesn’t deserve GOP support

Posted May 08, 2011 12:00 am

According to a recent article in Church and State magazine written by Joseph L. Conn:

Texas-based TV preacher Kenneth Copeland takes in millions in tax-deductible donations each year. He and his wife, Gloria, live in a $6.2 million “parsonage” on 25 acres by a lake. He has a private cattle ranch, a power plant and oil and gas wells and drives several Harley-Davidson motorcycles, a Mercedes-Benz, a Cadillac and a Corvette convertible. His tax-exempt Kenneth Copeland Ministries has a fleet of airplanes and its own private airport.

Pentecostal colleagues gave him and Gloria a $2.1 million cash “gift” to celebrate his 70th birthday and their 40th anniversary in ministry.

Operating as a church and almost entirely outside the purview of federal tax authorities, Copeland answers only to a KCM board stacked with family members and friends, the article said.

Leave it to those blockhead Republicans to continue their support for those right-wing evangelists. And the Copelands will get richer and richer in the name of Jesus.

Clyde Diven

Hoffman Estates

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