Here's a quote from the at least partially fictionalized journal of Grace Jovian (Secret Radio): I guess I had learned to be cruel, too, in that unthinking, sarcastic way of the preacher boys.

BH [Bev Hyles, wife of late Jack Hyles, pastor of First Baptist of Hammond] got $1 million when Jack died - insurance policy - the church did not get it.
BH has received Jack's salary every month since he died and will continue to receive it whether she signs the "contract" or not. (She's going to need it because she supports DH [Dave Hyles - son of Jack, pointed out by then Detective Paul Cialino as prime suspect in the death of Brent Stevens, ousted from Miller Road Baptist Church for affairs and gross involvement in pornography]- he has no job.. therefore, no $)
When JS [Jack Schaap, heir to the Hyles throne in Hammond, IN]found out about DH's latest "victims" in FL he pulled every DH book out of the bookstore. BH didn't like it, therefore she left.
BH has joined forces with DH and TS [I don't know who TS is.]to sue the church.

I think these guys have formulated some idea that if they can point out my sins with enough fervor, then Jack Hyles did not sin. And yes, this is the type of logic you get from the Hyles Clowns. If the Presbyterians are bad (or if a Presbyterian is bad enough), then we ought to gloss over the adultery, sodomy, and pedophilia linked back to Hyles-Anderson College and First Baptist Church of Hammond. The fact that I drink beer exonerates everybody, and Brent Stevens' death was surely an accident. And as for those broken bones all over his body that had never been treated, well, we can gloss over that too if it is discovered that I have not "won enough souls to Christ".

They are cruel people, certainly. It is a mercy to us all that they are limited in other ways. As I noticed a couple years ago when the young man on the forum (one of Dave's followers) challenged me to a fight and I accepted (thus prompting him to back down), they don't seem to know what to do with a woman who is in control of herself and is not afraid of them. They keep resorting to their old standby tactics, and even though these tactics (based on women who are afraid of them) fail again and again and make them look sillier and sillier, they are unable to adapt. They remind me of Rabadash from the Chronicles of Narnia, who Aslan at last turns into a jackass as a fitting judgement. But even though there is a certain funnyness in their behavior, it is important to remember that integrity is not in them. If they can malign, they will malign. If they have to deceive, they will deceive; if they have to behave like apes, they will behave like apes. They will justify all of it on the basis of being soul winners, of having short hair on men and long skirts on women, of avoiding rock music and movies and alcohol. To these people, as long as they observe the points of righteousness that they have picked out, they are excused from all other moral responsibilities. And if you don't believe me, go to the Fighting Fundamentalist Forum and have a good read.