Punk Jay Bakker on a mission from God
source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4596825.ece
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Jay Bakker, son of disgraced televangelists, preaches in a New York bar.
His father went to prison in disgrace. His mother’s mascara became a national joke. Yet somehow Jay Bakker survived an excruciating childhood to carve out a distinctive career as a punk preacher who is rapidly becoming a fashion icon.
As the son of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, once America’s most popular television evangelists, Bakker was 11 years old when his world crumbled in a sexual and financial scandal. It sent his father to jail and destroyed his family’s religious broadcasting empire, which was named Praise the Lord (PTL) but later became known as Pass the Loot.
Last week pictures of Bakker appeared in a national advertising campaign by one of America’s leading fashion designers.
His father went to prison in disgrace. His mother’s mascara became a national joke. Yet somehow Jay Bakker survived an excruciating childhood to carve out a distinctive career as a punk preacher who is rapidly becoming a fashion icon.
As the son of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, once America’s most popular television evangelists, Bakker was 11 years old when his world crumbled in a sexual and financial scandal. It sent his father to jail and destroyed his family’s religious broadcasting empire, which was named Praise the Lord (PTL) but later became known as Pass the Loot.
Last week pictures of Bakker appeared in a national advertising campaign by one of America’s leading fashion designers.
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