He gambled and lost

Gene ScottOddball downtown televangelist Gene Scott — the papers invariably call him flamboyant — had said he wanted to "give God the first shot" at stopping the prostate cancer discovered four years ago. Something must have gone terribly wrong with the faith healing, because Scott told his worldwide flock Sunday that he would enter UCLA for surgery and undergo possible life-extending radiation and chemo. The cancer had spread to his bladder and, he admitted, was "out of control."


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