I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Donnie's son Gabriel is the ministry's youth pastor who leads Crossfire Family Worship Center's youth ministry. By 1983 more than 250 television stations featured Swaggart's telecast. As Contemporary Christian music became more prevalent the station avoided playing it.

Sexual scandals in the late 1980s and early 1990s led the Assemblies of God to defrock him and to his temporarily stepping down as the head of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries. Swaggart's television ministry which began in 1975 continues airing nationally and internationally. According to the official website for Jimmy Swaggart Ministries his 1980s telecast was transmitted to over 3000 stations and cable systems each week.