“I have not done anything wrong.” Richard Roberts said.”I can’t say how much this has hurt my family.” (and I’m crying big tears! NO!)
Then why were the 3 professors fired for questioning the spending on the University owned house, where Richard lives, and the political participation of the 50 students, and my favorite,the Bahamas trip with his senior high school daughter and friends to RECRUIT for the university. I’m sure there were a lot of potential students at the resort in the Bahamas!
Richard needs to open up the financial books, showing what the contractors repaired (and why) for the “black mold” and hail damage….11 times in 14 years? That’s a lot of mold and what,it rained hail every year for 11 yesrs and had to have it repaired?

If working on a Mayoral Campaign was supposed to be a learning experience for a few students that grew to be 50 students working on the Campaign, and the students professors knew this wasn’t legal and tried to do something about it they should have been commended not fired by Oral Roberts.

Crocodile tears, if you ask me (not that anyone did).
These guys (TVangelists)are trained, or at least especially adept at using emotions to further their cause. In this cause Bobby Roberts is his own cause. Like this has never been done before!
My gues sis he will slither away unscathed. But at least he knows there are eyes trained on him, his wife, and his staff. Where is the accounatbility to the organization (not that he has not filled whatever board with plants)?

To be fair, this is all _alleged_ wrongdoing, though obviously if it turns out to be true then he needs to be called on it. I agree with Pagansister—open the books and let’s see what was done.
God bless.

To keep this in perspective, most private as well as public colleges and universities provide housing (along with maintainence) for their presidents/chancellors. And, the housing tends to be on the grand side even for smaller colleges and uni’s.
Should I also mention that the presidents/chancellors also have budgets for entertaining, holiday decor, gardening/landscape?
Peace!

I watched a little of Larry King when he talked with the young Roberts and the father Roberts. I feel a little sorry for him, because all parents want to believe their children, but sadly children have been known to let their parents down doing their own thing as everybody ages. I don’t think many parents would like to admit this though.

**Here is a more complete article on the multiple scandals at ORU. In addition to the seemingly blatant theft by Richard and Lindsey of donors’ gifts, Lindsey appears to have a thing for underage men. And earlier they described the Bahamas trip as “an “evangelistic function of the president” but now it’s a business trip and recruiting trip. And part of the job description seems to be doing the daughter’s homework.

“I feel a little sorry for him, because all parents want to believe their children, but sadly children have been known to let their parents down doing their own thing as everybody ages. I don’t think many parents would like to admit this though.”
So often true! Think about George Bush and how his son and namesake has embarrassed him, but poppy campaigned for him, thus showing that for him blood is thicker than loyalty to his country.

There’s another article in the NYT with some more info.

Well all I have to say about the matter is, That God knows everything and if there is something going on in their ministry, then God will show everyone, one way or another and their day will come. Cause God does not like liers or thiefs. We all need to pray for them instead of puttin them down for their actions. I know we have had a lot of Preachers gone south on us before, like Jimmy Swaggert, Tammy Faye and her (then) husband, but we all know how the Devil works, and he will get his 2 cents in anyway he can. Am I right. So like I said, we realy do need to pray for the Roberts family and I hope that it is all a misunderstanding.
God Bless Everyone.

People are revelling in their fall mostly because they are so stinking arrogant about their “faith” – well, at least about their pretense to devotion – and the exclusion of anyone not like them. They seem to deserve all the negative attention they are getting.

Virginia, yes God does know everything, and when you make a mistake big enough it comes out in the papers. It’s out in the papers because peoples lives have become involved, such as three college Professors who were fired because they have ethics. I think God has spoken. No coincidence. Tammy Faye didn’t go south only Jimmy Baker, the then husband did.

Virginia:
Got a lot of self absorbed representatives of god! They have their schemes down to a science and people fall for the “stuff” (for lack of a more potent word) and send $$ to them, to “help the ministry”. More like “help the minister” fund. If I were a praying person, I’d pray that they get what they deserve, in this case, a total investigation of the whole situation…books, trips to Bahamas etc.and severe consequences for them if guilty. (which I think they probably are). As one post pointed out, many universities own the president’s homes etc., with allowances for it’s upkeep etc. However I find it hard to believe it needed 11 (in 14 years) renovations for “mold and hail” damage. Sorry, the “devil made me do it” is an absolutely no excuse….as there is no such entity.