Tamara Faye LaValley Bakker Messner (1942 - 2007)
Among other acts to her credit and to her memory - in a move that sharply distinguished her from other televangelists, she showed a more tolerant attitude when it came to homosexuals, and she featured people living with AIDS on her show, urging her viewers to show sympathy and pray for the sick.
“I refuse to label people,” Ms. Messner said in a 2000 documentary, “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” when asked about her attitudes toward gay rights. “We’re all just people made out of the same old dirt, and God didn’t make any junk.”
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