Tammy Sue Bakker, the daughter of the late televangelist Jim Baker with his late ex-wife Tammy Faye, has released a statement on Facebook following her father’s death at the age of 86. She publicly apologized to anyone hurt by her father’s theology while urging folks to donate to LGBTQ groups.
Bakker reveals in her letter that “she left his ministry in 2022 because the message that was being delivered was not mine,” and that the distance between them caused her to be out of the loop in a big way.
I have spent the years since estranged from my father.
No one told me my father was ill or that his illness had progressed to hospice care until three hours before his death. I learned he had passed from a friend who saw it online and didn’t realize I hadn’t been told.
Noting that “There are very few times in life—if any—that we are given the chance to show the world that everyone is loved,” she used his death to say:
I want to publicly apologize, from the depths of my soul, to anyone who has been hurt by the church or my family’s ministry over the last 60 years. I know that millions of lives were positively changed by PTL, and for that I’m grateful. I have also read the letters and comments—and have been told in person many times—that so many gave their last dime to the ministry.
It breaks my heart to know that the church has been responsible for millions of people suffering, being rejected by their families, living with depression, being kicked out of their family homes, feeling like outcasts, dealing with suicidal ideation, or dying by suicide.
In lieu of flowers or gifts, she asks everyone to “donate funds or your time to your local LGBTQIA+ community” and that “no amount is too big or too small to make a real change and possibly save someone’s life.”
Likewise, Jay Bakker, Jim’s other child with Tammy, did not attend his father’s funeral. Publicly acknowledging the complicated relationship they had, he says he visited him several weeks ago and said his goodbyes then.
Jim Bakker has 5 other adopted children with his second wife Lori.
Full letter below:
5 responses to “Jim Bakker’s Daughter Apologizes For Father’s Theology, Urges Donations to LGBTQ Groups in Lieu of Flowers”
She’s full of dung up to her eyeballs. This is nothing but self-centered grandstanding. If she truly cared about what she claims to care about, then she would’ve spoken up long before all those people supposedly killed themselves. Right. By her own reasoning, she is guilty for remaining silent.
I can see why she was disassociated …
They kill themselves. They spread disease and suffering, killing others. You don’t fix the consequences of sin by approving of the sin. You fix them by getting rid of the sin. Sin produces misery. And that’s due consequence that God put into place. It is not the fault of the righteous, nor would due consequence disappear if she could get rid of every righteous man on the planet. It would still exist because God put it into place. You don’t lead and encourage people into sin that you know drives people to suicide, while pretending to care about suicide. One who does that doesn’t care at all. By her backwards and wicked reasoning, we should feel sorry for Judas and give him approval for what he did.
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She rejected her father’s false teaching in order to embrace a different kind of false teaching.
Exactly.
Big deal. Run to your group of crazies. No one really cares. Wheat and Tares, y’all.