Swaggart's threat - aired on OMNI - breaches broadcast code

OTTAWA – “If one , I’m gonna kill him and tell God he died,” televangelist Jimmy Swaggart said on OMNI.1 last fall. The comment, of course, breaches of Broadcast Code of Ethics, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council said today. The CBSC didn’t comment, however, on how the comment also breaches a couple of biblical codes, otherwise known as commandments… (Swaggart, caught more than once with a prostitute in the 1980s, is no stranger to bending certain rules, however.) In his so-called sermon on September 12th, Swaggart dealt principally with a young drug addict and segued briefly to the subject of...