The heartbroken life of Ronnie Roberts
Oral Roberts’ son had a secret
In the late 1980s, a young anorexic woman named Rachel was lying in a hospital bed. She told her mother: “If I’m going to die, I have to know the truth.”
Her mother admitted it. Years later, in 2005, Rachel saw that her cousin, Randy Potts, had the same secret in himself. She told him hers, and in 2010, Randy told the world.
His uncle, Ronnie Roberts, the eldest son of Oral Roberts, the famous faith-healing Christian minister, had been gay.
Randly researched his gay uncle and in 2016, on Instagram, did a long post about him.
That was reprinted by The Guardian newspaper, where I noticed it. Randy had assembled a lot of information, but more is known about Ronald David Roberts, the second child and first son of Oral and Evelyn Roberts.
Born in Tulsa on October 22, 1943, all his life, he was ‘Ronnie’, a ‘pastor’s kid’, placed on earth to be an example of a good Christian.
He did his best. A 1985 biography, Oral Roberts: An American Life by David Edwin Harrell, Jr., finds Oral saying he’s so proud of his “little helper.”
