Smegma, Vaginal Discharge, and Head Cheese might make for great logos but were quickly rejected as not representative of our songs.
That year, 1980, was a time of rising prominence for televangelists like Jimmy Swaggart, Pat Robertson, and Jim Bakker.
The year before, Jerry Falwell had founded the Moral Majority, which was having a powerful influence on the presidential election between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.
Religion was a hot topic, and those TV preachers seemed like a good target to us, though we didn't think they could possibly last for more than a few years.
We knew that most people were so defensive about their religious ideas that they would be highly offended by our name–a major plus!