From Websnark:

But when she said that God loved you? And loved me? And loved everyone? She meant that. She meant it with all her heart. And she felt that included everyone. The rich and the poor. Criminals and the innocent. The healthy and the sick. Heterosexuals, homosexuals, people of all creeds and races. Everyone. During the heyday of The P-T-L Club in the eighties, when AIDS was mysterious and homosexuality denounced by most evangelists as dirty and sinful — with the implication that HIV was a divine judgement against them — Tammy Faye Bakker had gay men and women on her show. She had AIDS victims appear. She exhorted her audience to pray for these people — not to abandon their sinful lives, but to be healed of their illness, like any Christian should pray for any sick person.

I knew Tammy Faye of old — I had a remarkably churchified upbringing — but all I can remember now is the scandal, and how nice she seemed in those clips from the Surreal Life.