Here's What First Baptist Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress Actually Said About Catholics In Context

[TexasTowelie]

Robert Jeffress spent Wednesday with Donald Trump, supporting the president during his fundraising visit to the Belo Mansion in downtown Dallas. On Thursday, the First Baptist Dallas pastor and Trump's biggest evangelical supporter had to do something a lot less fun — take to the Fox News airwaves to defend himself from charges that he is anti-Catholic.

Word of Jeffress' potentially anti-Catholic views bubbled to the surface this week when a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders about her boss's continued praise for the Dallas demagogue, given Jeffress' controversial statements about the Catholic church. Sanders said that she wasn't "aware of Robert Jeffress being anti-Catholic" and that she knew that he worked with Texas Catholics on events like the anti-abortion rights demonstration March for Life.

Link to tweet

On Fox News, Jeffress repeated Sanders' line, confirming that he works with Catholics against abortion, and said that the characterization of his thoughts about Catholicism was inaccurate.

"What they did was they went back and recycled old quotes from years ago that were either completely manufactured at the time or ripped out of context," Jeffress said.

Read more: http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/first-baptist-dallas-robert-jeffress-defends-himself-on-fox-news-10011295

[Angry Dragon]

1. I wonder how he differs??

He does not say anything about his church

[Cartoonist]

2. That old excuse?

Those quotes we're deplorable. There is no context in which they could be redeemed.

[Act_of_Reparation]

3. Of course he's anti-Catholic.

Catholics aren't Baptists. That's how this stuff works.

[NeoGreen]

4. Does this help shed light on the question...

..."What is christianity?" and is this "good news" or "bad news"?

I find it difficult to provide answers to these very important questions. That is, answers that contain any real meaning.

Word salad I can do. Word salad I dish out in heaps, but real meaning that maps on to the world as we live it, that's hard.

[Act_of_Reparation]

5. I suppose it does.

What is Christianity? Children fighting over an action figure.

That about sums it up.

[NeoGreen]

6. Same story for the last 500 years...

...https://www.democraticunderground.com/1218258009

One insurgent fraudster pointing out the fraud of established fraudsters...

"You're debasing the fraud"