Lede of the Year

Josh Marshall gets my nomination for this gem:

It's been weeks since a prominent conservative institution has been rocked by scandal, so I suppose we were due for a story like this one.

From the Justin Juozapavicius Associated Press story:
...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."

Modern right-wing Christianity is a lot more entrepreneurial than evangelical, I think, and Roberts, Dobson, Robertson and their ilk who have made fortunes peddling it owe a lot more to indulgence peddling medieval bishops than to the Man from Galilee.

I think God might be speaking to me too:

Past due time to scourge the money changers from the Temple.

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