Donnie Swaggart told the audience that "LGBT activists are like the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in that they want to destroy Christianity and behead its practitioners," Raw Story recently reported. "They want the Bible gone. And I'm going to make a statement: These people that are trying to do this in Houston, the only difference between them and ISIS, those thugs in Iraq, is those here cannot chop our heads off. That's the only difference. The heart is the same. The heart is the same. If they could silence us that way to intimidate others, that's exactly what they would do."

Swaggart's rhetoric matches what fellow evangelist Pat Robertson said about the Houston subpoenas. "These people are terrorists, they're radicals and they're extremists," Robertson argued late last month.

As Raw Story's David Ferguson recently pointed out, "In spite of the apology, Swaggart's multi-million dollar empire was rocked to its foundations and never fully recovered. It was one of the most high profile falls from grace in the history of the U.S. evangelical Christian community, second only perhaps to the rape and corruption scandal that took down fellow televangelist Jim Bakker."

According to donnieswaggart.org, "Pastor and Spirit Filled Evangelist Donnie Swaggart of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is well known for his Bible based teaching and Fiery preaching style throughout the world! Whether teaching as the Co-Pastor of Family Worship Center Church or leading "Holy Spirit Night" Campmeetings, Brother Donnie has been blessed with the ability to reach people of all ages and walks of life with God's Word! Donnie's regular appearance on critically acclaimed SonLife Broadcasting Network programming proves to be a viewer favorite every day!

Just for the heck of it, I went to YouTube to get a sampling of Donnie Swaggart in action. Here's what I found in one of his "fiery" sermons: Donnie rages against the Philistine in Washington, the "spirit of the Anti-Christ in Washington who is trying to strip away the freedoms of this nation, that's trying to take away our rights to stand up and preach thus sayith the Lord. There's a Philistine in Washington that's doing everything in their power to euthanize us, abort us, and to put us under the debt of bondage of finances and the list could go on. And I'm not talking about the color of his skin. I'm talking about a man who has given his heart over to the controls of the power of darkness."

The good news? Donnie Swaggart is a pompous self-righteous idiot. The bad news? He has three children and seven grandchildren, one or more of whom are bound to carry the Swaggart Ministries into the far and distant future.