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Tammy Faye Bakker Messner

July 23, 2007

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You’ve lived a rich life when it can be said that you were both a former televangelist as well as gay icon. So it can be said about Tammy Faye Bakker Messner who died on Friday at the age of 65 after a long battle with cancer.

Tammy Faye had just made an appearance the night before on CNN’s “Larry King Live” talk show. “I believe when I leave this Earth because I love the Lord, I am going straight to heaven,” she told King in that interview.

Even in her glory days during the PTL Club with then husband Jim Bakker, Tammy Faye was consistently a friend to gays and lesbians. She especially embraced those suffering with HIV. Later still, in the 90’s her campy, colorful persona increased her popularity.



Tammy Faye was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1996, which would later spread to her lungs. In her final note, posted on Tammy Faye’s Web site Monday, she said: “I have times when I feel good and times when I feel really bad. But, I have learned one thing about feelings. They have nothing to do with faith in God!”

According to Larry King, on the CNN Web site, “She died peacefully.”

 

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