Faith healers target Pants: why the show ejected them
The hosts describe two men from the 'I Believe in Miracles' show — the same people who appeared right before them on Des Moines Amplified — cornering Pants at the festival and trying to heal his multiple sclerosis, insisting sickness is a sign of evil rather than just illness. They recount the men chasing down visibly disabled people including a child with spina bifida, leaving a child in tears, and one of them attempting to 'shadow heal' Pants without his agreement. Pants, who calls his MS a blessing that gave him a platform to talk about Jesus, answered them graciously, but the hosts say the combative arguing and ego involved led them to eject the men from the booth.
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