Living Like Jeezis, First Class to Vail

Below: Eyes of The Undead, or: Why Do They All Look Like Cinderella Stepford Hensley McCain? Photo: Pat Sullivan/APEvangelical con artist Joel Osteen must not have sworn on a Bible when he took the stand Friday in a civil trial in which his bottle-blond (Isn't the hair color gawd gave her good enough?) wife Victoria is being sued for assaulting a flight attendant over a spill on her first class armrest.

On Thursday, another flight attendant on the plane, Maria Johnson, testified that Victoria Osteen demanded special attention to clean up the small spill. When she didn't get her way, Osteen became verbally and physically abusive to both flight attendants, eventually grabbing Brown by the shoulders, elbowing her in the chest and pushing her out of the way in an attempt to get into the cockpit, Johnson testified. But Joel Osteen disputed Johnson's testimony, saying his wife never raised her voice or grabbed the flight attendants. However, later he admitted to McKamie that he could not hear his wife's voice from his seat. [...] McKamie also asked Osteen whether his family was used to getting special treatment, making reference to an anecdote in one of the pastor's books in which he wrote about being allowed to take an expensive television camera on board a flight to India even though it was against the rules. "You feel that you're entitled to the favor of God ... to do things other people can't do," McKamie said. "All of God's children are," Osteen said. Brown has claimed the flight attendants asked to have Victoria Osteen removed from the plane, but Joel Osteen testified he and his family left voluntarily.

The Federal Aviation Administration fined Victoria Osteen $3,000 for interfering with a crew member.

Joel Osteen said his wife did not want to pay the fine but he convinced her to do so because he thought it would be a way to put the incident behind them even though they felt they did nothing wrong.

Those who aren't "God's children" can just suck wind. Not mentioned in the AP story is the racial element. Leave it to liberal bible The New York Times to play the "race card."

One of the other attendants, Maria Johnson, suggested in testimony Thursday that Ms. Osteen had been dismissive and abusive to Ms. Brown, who is black, and a second black attendant because of their race. The witness said Ms. Osteen had pushed past those two attendants to speak to her because, in Ms. Johnson’s words, she was “the only white girl on the plane.”

All you could ever want to know about the trial here. Douchebag Close-Up© here. Pastor Osteen & Co-Pastor Osteen enjoy fleecing their flock through the "Prosperity Gospel," which conveniently preaches that if gawd loves you you'll become rich. The best way to get gawd to love you is to hand over any excess riches to the Pastors of your flock. And so the sheep are sheared.