DELIVERING RELIGIOUS CHOW IN THE MANNER TO WHICH THEY ARE ACCUSTOMED

You remember the Crystal Cathedral, don't you? That's the ostentatious mega-church built by televangelist, Rev. Robert Shuler out in Orange County, California. The cathedral and its ministry are now in bankruptcy court because the Schulers and cathedral administrators quit paying on the tens of millions of dollars worth of debt the cathedral racked up over the years to support the Schulers' lavish lifestyle, the ministry's television empire and the Cathedral building itself. After having bilked millions of dollars from the ministries' Sunday morning viewers, you'd think that the Schulers would go searching for a proverbial rock to hide under, but you'd be wrong.

Last week, Rev. Schuler and his wife, Arvella had Crystal Cathedral personnel send e-mails to church members and ministry donors soliciting prepared meals and other food stuff for their own family table. Once more, the Schulers arranged for the expected food donations to be transported to their home in one of their family limousines. Is that chutzpah, or what?

For years I've been railing against televangelists and their ministries for being nothing more than charitable scams, but seldom have I witnessed such blatantly outrageous conduct being conducted for all the public to see. Usually, such fraud only happens behind closed doors. In any case, I wish a Crystal Cathedral member would bake a crow pie and have it chauffeured to the Schuler residence. That's one meal the Schulers deserve to eat.