Chaos at Daystar Television Network Amid Terminations, Sex Abuse Scandals, and Heresy Galore
Days ago, it was announced that Jonathan Lamb, the son of Daystar Television Network founders Marcus and Joni Lamb, had been fired from the global Christian network giant. According to Daystar, Lamb was terminated as head of the network’s cafe, facilities, and distribution department for failing to meet his performance improvement plan. Notably, one of the points of this plan included:
“Refrain from posting comments in a conversation, text or email or on your or Suzy’s (his wife) blogs and social media regarding any of the following without first obtaining the written approval of its content from the CEO or a Trustee: (i) your reassignment, (ii) the existence or contents of this Plan, (iii) decisions or actions taken by Daystar leadership on any topic, (iv) the appearance or non-appearance of you or Suzy on programs or broadcasts of Daystar.”
Once the heir apparent to the media empire, Jonathan Lamb was removed from his position as vice president and board member last year after refusing to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), resulting in a demotion to his current position. Now terminated from the company headed by his mother, he says the dismissal was retaliatory for talking to reporters about the toxic environment and cover-up culture within the organization.
Last week, Jonathan and his wife Suzy made public allegations to The Roys Report that Joni Lamb and Daystar tried covering up their daughter’s sexual abuse at the hands of a male relative. They say not only did Joni encourage them not to go to the police, but she even defended the perpetrator and made justifications of why he couldn’t possibly have done it, even going so far as to suggest that she prayed to God and that God told her the alleged molester was innocent.
Furthermore, Suzy has alleged that she was sexually assaulted in 2017 by a chiropractor who worked for the family in the Network’s green room. After telling Marcus and Joni, Marcus paid off the chiropractor, and Joni reportedly told her not to tell anyone about it because they needed to protect the company’s reputation.
Daystar has forcefully denied the allegations, declaring that the two are engaged in a “smear campaign against them.
(A brief side note: Jonathan has also objected to the marriage between his Mom, Joni, and her new husband, sex therapist Doug Weiss, who hosts a show on the network. In an eye-brow-raising timeline, his late father (Marcus Lamb) died on November 30, 2021, Weiss divorced his wife two months later, and Joni and Weiss got engaged six months after that. Trinity Foundation has reported that Joni regularly took the ministry’s private jet on personal trips to visit him in Colorado Springs, totaling $769,220 in expenses.)
For nearly 30 years, Daystar Television Network was founded and run by Marcus Lamb, a man who cheated on his wife and repeatedly taught that God would heal the sickness and diseases of anyone who gave to the network. They now have 100 stations across the United States, run by 300 staff, bringing in over $100M annually.
Daystar holds the dubious distinction, in our opinion, of being the second most evil and wicked TV station that the devil has ever concocted, after the Trinity Broadcast Network, which currently holds the top spot.Since its founding, Daystar has platformed many of the who’s who of prosperity heretics and false teachers, including Joyce Meyer, Sid Roth, Joel Osteen, Joseph Prince, Jentezen Franklin, TD Jakes, Andrew Womack, Kenneth Copeland, Creflo Dollar, Jim Bakker, and Paula White.
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The real tragedy of all this is the world thinks this is Christianity, but clearly it is not. Not by a long-shot.
So true.