Article: TUMULTUOUS TIMES FOR THE FAITHFUL HOW JIM BAKKER'S FOLLOWERS ARE DEALING WITH HIS REVELATIONS

FORT MILL, S.C. - The pink billboard -- peeling now -- still stands with looming likenesses of the founders, Jim and Tammy.

Behind it, however, sprawls a world caught suddenly, terribly, in everything the place had sought to avoid.

This is, you see, the forlorn entrance to Heritage U.S.A., the $175- million, 2,300-acre Christian theme park/resort/broadcast center TV evangelist Rev. Jim Bakker and his wife began building 10 years ago to protect Christian Americans from the ravages of drugs, cussing and sex.

Here, as it happened, the Bakkers tried to build a Christian city-state. They excluded drink, they routed sin. Above all, they erected thousands of followers' most fervent wish ...

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