Religion Roundup
TV Host Discusses Prayer, Salvation and Abortion
Associated Press
July 24, 2008
NEW YORK - One of the female hosts on the ABC-TV talk show "The View" says she was joking when she told a Christian women's magazine about praying for Barbara Walters' salvation.
On Wednesday's broadcast, Sherri Shepherd said she told the magazine "Precious Times" that she sometimes asked God why he hadn't put an evangelist like Juanita Bynum or Joyce Meyer in her place so "they could lay hands on Barbara Walters and get her saved."
Shepherd told the TV audience that when she phoned Walters in France to apologize, Walters laughed and said, "Sherri, I'm already in heaven -- I'm in Paris."
Shepherd also explained a statement she made to the magazine about having had multiple abortions. Shepherd says she was burdened with shame until a woman told her, "Sherri, when you get to heaven all your babies are going to be there saying, 'Hi mama!"' Shepherd said she knew then that Jesus had forgiven her.
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