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Disgraceful Revelations About "Faith Healer" Ernest Angley

10/17/2014

 
By William M. London 

Ernest Angley, one of the televangelists discussed in James Randi’s 1987 book The Faith Healers, is the subject of “Falling from Grace?,” a new six-part investigative report by Akron Beacon Journal reporter Bob Dyer. 

According to Dyer, the 93-year-old Angley has been accused of:

  • Operating a dangerous cult in which “pregnant women are encouraged to have abortions” when they wanted to have children and “childless men are encouraged to have vasectomies” [Updated: when they wanted to have children]
  • Personally examining the genitals of male church members before and after the vasectomies he encouraged
  • Being gay [not that there’s anything wrong with that], despite preaching “vehemently against the ‘sin’ of homosexuality” [now that’s wrong!]
  • Consistently threatening and intimidating “his flock into following his instructions, bullying them into life-changing decisions that often split up families”
  • Counseling his devout followers to stay silent in response to their complaints to him about sexual abuse occurring at Grace Cathedral in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
  • Advising church members to shun people who leave the church including their spouses and children
  • Violating a former associate pastor over a seven-year period by having him undress and then touching him all over [genitals supposedly excluded]
  • Blaming demons hovering over a woman for the severe beatings she received from her husband.

Angley has denied all the accusations except for the genital checking.
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