As for Lindsay and Richard Roberts, they have been praying a hell of a lot:
The Robertses said the lawsuit took aim at their character. It contains a report at least partially written by Lindsay Roberts' sister, Stephanie Cantees, whose job is to record happenings and rumors around town and in government and report to Richard Roberts.
The report claimed that the Robertses used ministry vehicles for themselves, had ORU and ministry employees do their daughters' homework, charged personal clothing expenses to business accounts, used the ORU "jet" to take one daughter and her friends on a senior trip, and more.
When the Roberts daughters heard those allegations, they said, "All right, here we go again," Lindsay Roberts said.
The family has been the subject of false rumors before: that Lindsay Roberts was pregnant when she and Richard Roberts married, that the family had installed a wall-length aquarium in their home to house a shark, and that Oral Roberts died in surgery, to name a few, they said.
The report referenced in the lawsuit "was so ridiculous, I just dismissed it out of hand" when he received it from Cantees three years ago, Richard Roberts said.
This, too, is interesting:
Lindsay Roberts expected to become a lawyer. She described herself as being shy when she met Richard Roberts at ORU. Since that day, she knew she wanted to marry him. Now she appears on television 10 or more times a week.
Her husband wanted to be an athlete and night-club singer. Not yet a Christian, he wanted to get out of his parents’ house. He started singing and acting at the University of Kansas and had plans to sing in Las Vegas lounges for the summer. But in his second semester, he was hospitalized with a colon problem that would require surgery. He prayed, “God, if you’ll heal me, I’ll serve you.”
One of the commenters below the article had a slightly different version:
I see that Richard has changed his story of how "he" decided to leave KU and come back to Tulsa. The original story was that his parents and some folks from the University went up to where he was performing in Kansas City in a musical production with Shirley Jones. Mr. & Mrs. Roberts demanded that he drop out of show business and enroll in ORU and live in the dorm on campus where they could keep track of his whereabouts. This was not a rumor someone made up; it used to be official Oral Roberts family information.
. . . This is sort of like the Roberts family and ORU in denial that Richard's elder brother, Ronald Oral was not openly gay after he was divorced. I knew some people in Hollywood who told stories of Ron going to gay clubs when the weekly TV shows were taped at NBC Studios in Burbank. He supposedly just happened to be in the LA area because he came with the family for the trip.
. . . In regard to Lindsay's original relationship with Richard, it is considered to be professionally unethical for a student, no matter what standing with the institution, to date a staff member or a professor of the same institution.
