Gay engineer and Trinity Broadcasting Network settle harassment suit

          

A confidential settlement has been reached between a gay broadcast engineer and his former employer, Trinity Broadcasting Network.

Brian Dugger sued Trinity last March, claiming he was harassed and discriminated against by employees of the world’s largest Christian broadcasting empire.

Trinity Broadcasting Network

Trintiy Broadcasting Network (TBN), led by founders Paul and Jan Crouch, is the world’s largest religious TV network.

TBN claims to be a Christian ministry, but promotes such an incredible amount of aberrant and heretical material that it is often referred to as “The Blasphemy Network.”

Prominent among TBN’s extremist Word-Faith teachings is its emphasis on the so-called Prosperity Gospel — essentially a scam.

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Paul Crouch Jr. allegedly taunted Dugger with pornography, said TBN was no place for fairies and declared that ‘Brian has a man-gina!’ ”

In court paperwork, Crouch said those things never happened.
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Soon after his transfer to Tustin in 2001, Dugger was told not to dress so gay or to wear jewelry, to act more straight and to pay attention to girls, it said. “Brian has a man-gina!”

Paul Crouch Jr. allegedly taunted Dugger (in front of a live video camera and a crowd of TBN workers). The junior Crouch also sent Dugger explicit pictures of genitalia — male, female and transsexual — as well as explicit images of copulating couples and other pornography, the suit said.
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The suit was originally filed in Orange County Superior Court, but then moved to federal court. Dugger sought at least $1.9 million in punitive damages; $650,000 in general and special damages (lost wages and benefits, emotional distress); as well as statutory damages.

Dugger’s attorney, Tymothy MacLeod, said he could not discuss the terms of the settlement. Trinity did not respond to requests for comment.

In 1994, $425,000 was paid to silence allegations of a gay tryst involving the senior Crouch and an employee. The senior Crouch denied it happened.
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