Anti-Vaccine Televangelist Dies After His Alternative Covid Treatments Failed

Televangelist Marcus Lamb, who once compared LGBTQ people to “drug addicts and shoplifters” and vocally opposed Covid-19 vaccines, has died at 64, weeks after he contracted Covid-19.

Lamb was the co-founder and former CEO of the conservative Christian Daystar Television Network which regularly hosted anti-vaccine activists, including Sherri Tenpenny, who believes that vaccines make people magnetic.

“It’s with a heavy heart we announce that Marcus Lamb, president and founder of Daystar Television Network, went home to be with the Lord this morning,” the network said in a tweet Tuesday. “The family asks that their privacy be respected as they grieve this difficult loss. Please continue to lift them up in prayer.”

Lamb’s son, Jonathan Lamb, filled in for his father on a Nov. 23 Daystar broadcast and urged listeners to

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