Less than two months after his arrest on a wife-beating charge, Bishop Thomas W. Weeks III is offering a steep discount on DVDs of his million-dollar wedding to televangelist Juanita Bynum and a book they wrote together.

Thousands of other women around the world get the daylights beat out of them daily, down to this very second. Unfortunately, they don’t have a multi-million dollar, book publishing, and preaching and prophesizing empire behind them.

First it was Juanita Bynum who was seeking a divorce from her husband. Now, it appears her televangelist husband is filing a counterclaim for divorce.

Thomas Weeks, the estranged husband of national evangelist Juanita Bynum, on Wednesday denied that his wife was a victim of cruel treatment in a response to her divorce filing.

Juanita Bynum likes money. Your money. Her husband’s money. Anybody’s money.

Some critics have accused Bynum of using the situation to gain recognition and a larger following. Bynum shot down such allegations.

Evangelist Juanita Bynum, in the midst of a divorce that became very public when she was allegedly beaten, choked and stomped by her estranged husband in the parking lot of an Atlanta hotel, said Wednesday that her heart is healing.

Ms Bynum calls the money she demands from her supporters “sowing a seed”. In one video on her site she pleads for $200,000 to build a new prayer room – which she calls a “threshing floor”.

Conservative critics among the evangelical clergy have accused Juanit Bynum of exploiting the attack for publicity, calling her “loud,” “angry,” “aggressive” and “out of control,” while a group of black and Hispanic churches has demanded Thomas Weeks’s resignation.

The high-profile case involving Bynum and her husband, Bishop Thomas W. Weeks, experts say, underscores that domestic violence, also known as intimate partner violence, is no respecter of gender, social-economic status or even religious faith.

The husband of evangelist Juanita Bynum held a press conference Friday at his Duluth Church to tell the world he is not an abuser of women.

Televangelist Juanita Bynum’s husband said Friday he and his wife spent the night together the day before she says he beat her, and it had boosted his hopes for reconciliation.

The Rev. Thomas W. Weeks III had held out hope that he and Bynum could reconcile even after she filed a petition for divorce Monday, but now “has come to the personal resolve, that if Juanita is insistent on a divorce, he will not stand in the way,” his attorneys said in a statement.

Randy Kessler, one of the attorneys representing Thomas W. Weeks III, said they are considering whether the counterclaim will accuse Juanita Bynum of cruel treatment, the charge her divorce petition levels at Weeks.

The divorce of national evangelist Juanita Bynum is moving north to Gwinnett County. Attorneys in the Bynum-Thomas W. Weeks divorce agreed Tuesday to dismiss the filing in Ware County and move the case to Gwinnett County Superior Court, according to Randy Kessler, who is representing Weeks in the matter. The re-filing of the divorce petition could come with some surprises, however.

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