A television evangelist accused of causing her brother's death by convincing him prayer alone would cure his cancer is being sued by relatives.
A lawsuit claims Darlene Bishop persuaded Darrel 'Wayne' Perry to rely on prayer rather than radiation treatment and chemotherapy.
She says in a book that Mr Perry was cured of his cancer, without mentioning that he died of it 18 months ago, it adds.
The lawsuit also accuses her of lying when she claims in the book that prayer cured her breast cancer. There is no evidence she ever had the disease, it says.
Mrs Bishop, who is being sued by four of her brother's grownup children, is also accused of mismanaging his multi-million pound estate in another lawsuit.
Mr Perry's eldest son, Bryan, 36, said: " She's lying to people and exploiting my father for her own financial gain.
"I put my faith in Darlene. We all did. We thought she was a holy, pure woman."
Darrel Perry, 55, who was a successful country music songwriter, was diagnosed with throat cancer in December 2002.
He moved into Mrs Bishop's £1.5million mansion in Monroe, Ohio, where she is co-pastor of the Solid Rock Church with her husband Lawrence, to "recommit" his life to God.
Another son, Justin, 28, said: "Dad was lying in bed dying, and Darlene had him convinced that he was healed."
Mrs Bishop, whose television show, Sisters, is viewed by millions, says on her website that the allegations are "complete lies".
She adds: "I encouraged my brother to listen to the doctors, but he refused surgery."
But in a sworn deposition responding to the lawsuits Mrs Bishop, who was once voted America's sexiest preacher, admits no doctor ever diagnosed the breast cancer she refers to in her book.
She says she thought she had cancer in 1986 and that it was cured after she prayed to God to heal her.
_________________ No matter how dark the storm gets overhead They say someone's watching from the calm at the edge What about us when we're down here in it? We gotta watch our backs
_________________ I remember doing nothing on the night Sinatra died
And the night Jeff Buckley died
And the night Kurt Cobain died
And the night John Lennon died
I remember I stayed up to watch the news with everyone
_________________ No matter how dark the storm gets overhead They say someone's watching from the calm at the edge What about us when we're down here in it? We gotta watch our backs
wrong, the person who believes this shit is the idiot
And Darrel Perry did. If only he believed in medicine, even partially, he may be alive today.
_________________ I remember doing nothing on the night Sinatra died
And the night Jeff Buckley died
And the night Kurt Cobain died
And the night John Lennon died
I remember I stayed up to watch the news with everyone
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tyler wrote:
But it worked. He no longer has cancer.
_________________ I remember doing nothing on the night Sinatra died
And the night Jeff Buckley died
And the night Kurt Cobain died
And the night John Lennon died
I remember I stayed up to watch the news with everyone
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This dude lies in the hospital dying of cancer. A doctor runs in and says, "we'd like to give you chemo to save your life." The man says, "no, I believe that god will save me." Another doctor runs in and says, "we're sure that we can save you if we get you into surgery right now." The man says, "no, I believe that god will save me." A third doctor rushes in and says, "there's an experimental new treatment. It's a long shot, but it could work if we go right now." The man says, "no, like I told the other doctors, I believe that god will save me. Let me pray."
The man dies of cancer the next day. When he gets to heaven he asks god, "God, I had complete faith in you through my entire illness. Why didn't you save me?"
God says, "What the fuck are you talking about? I sent the 3 best doctors in the world to your room to cure you."
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i think only an extremely stupid doctor would say "if you let me give you chemo, you will be cured." and then, yes, you can try and sue the pants off that guy all you want. but even in that case, i think a smart judge would realise that, even without the chemo, the cancer patient still could have died.
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People can try to sue for kinds of things. Doesn't mean they will win. It is the rare negligence case where the plaintiff wins and I go WTF???? Mostly, they lose.
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Jammer91 wrote:
If Soundgarden is perfectly fine with playing together with Tad Doyle on vocals, why the fuck is he wasting his life promoting the single worst album of all time? Holy shit, he has to be the stupidest motherfucker on earth.
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She's dumb for saying it and the dead guy is even dumber for believing her. Ipso, fatso.
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Capitalism trumps evangelism once again
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LittleWing sometime in July 2007 wrote:
Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.
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B wrote:
This dude lies in the hospital dying of cancer. A doctor runs in and says, "we'd like to give you chemo to save your life." The man says, "no, I believe that god will save me." Another doctor runs in and says, "we're sure that we can save you if we get you into surgery right now." The man says, "no, I believe that god will save me." A third doctor rushes in and says, "there's an experimental new treatment. It's a long shot, but it could work if we go right now." The man says, "no, like I told the other doctors, I believe that god will save me. Let me pray."
The man dies of cancer the next day. When he gets to heaven he asks god, "God, I had complete faith in you through my entire illness. Why didn't you save me?"
God says, "What the fuck are you talking about? I sent the 3 best doctors in the world to your room to cure you."
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