 In response to the scandal, Falwell called Bakker a liar, an embezzler, a sexual deviant, and "the greatest scab and cancer on the face of Christianity in 2,000 years of church history".On CNN, Swaggart told Larry King that Bakker was a "cancer in the body of Christ".In February 1988, Swaggart became involved in a sex scandal of his own after being caught visiting prostitutes in New Orleans.