Marjoe Gortner
November, 1972
He Was Ordained an evangelist at three. A year later, billed as The Child of God, he was faith healing and performing marriages with his father's fundamentalist Gospel show. His name is Marjoe (an abbreviation of Mary and Joseph) Gortner, and when he retired at 14 from the church-and-tent circuit to the Southern California underground culture of his own generation, he never thought he'd hit the sawdust trail again. But eight years later, buoyed by hippie idealism and an overdose of naïveté, he w...
