i'm sure god also told him

he didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of looking 'clean' after all the accusations. i'm sure god also told him to tell the world he was in fact talking to god on thanksgiving and EVERYTHING would be all right. i'm sure god is laughing at any and everyone who believes this ass

Roberts Says God Forced His Resignation
By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS Associated Press Writer
TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Richard Roberts told students at Oral Roberts University Wednesday that he did not want to resign as president of the scandal-plagued evangelical school, but that he did so because God insisted.
God told him on Thanksgiving that he should resign the next day, Roberts told students in the university's chapel.
"Every ounce of my flesh said 'no'" to the idea, Roberts said, but he prayed over the decision with his wife and his father, Oral Roberts, and decided to step down.
Roberts said he wanted to "strike out" against the people who were persecuting him, and considered countersuing, but "the Lord said, 'don't do that,'" he said.
After submitting his resignation, he said, for "first time in 60 days peace came into my heart."
Roberts spoke for only a few minutes and was applauded and cheered by students. He wiped away tears with a white handkerchief and his hands.
"This has nearly destroyed my family, and it's nearly destroyed ORU," Roberts said..........

uh oh (yet another one)

of course they are JUST allegations (for now). but a bunch o' 'evangelists' doing illegal and immoral things? NAW it CAN'T be true.

mmmmmmmmmmm HUGE clothing bills (you know god wants us to look nice, right?), involved in a company jet transporting a daughter of the righteous to a VACATION SPOT (yet it was billed back as evangelism). involved in HUGE cell phone bills (at questionable hours to questionable sources)............mmmmmmmmmmmmm

Scandal Brews at Oral Roberts University

By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS,
AP
TULSA, Okla. (Oct. 6) - Twenty years ago, televangelist Oral Roberts said he was reading a spy novel when God appeared to him and told him to raise $8 million for Roberts' university, or else he would be "called home."
Now, his son, Oral Roberts University President Richard Roberts, says God is speaking again, telling him to deny lurid allegations in a lawsuit that threatens to engulf this 44-year-old Bible Belt college in scandal. Richard Roberts is accused of illegal involvement in a local political campaign and lavish spending at donors' expense, including numerous home remodeling projects, use of the university jet for his daughter's senior trip to the Bahamas, and a red Mercedes convertible and a Lexus SUV for his wife, Lindsay. She is accused of dropping tens of thousands of dollars on clothes, awarding nonacademic scholarships to friends of her children and sending scores of text messages on university-issued cell phones to people described in the lawsuit as "underage males." ..........
...........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." The document cites inconsistencies in clothing purchases and actual usage on TV. Mrs. Roberts was given a white Lexus SUV and a red Mercedes convertible by ministry donors. University and ministry employees are regularly summoned to the Roberts' home to do the daughters' homework. ..........