CBS picks up on Hagee's insane rantings with quotes.

[Ichingcarpenter]

Statements By Pastor Who Endorsed McCain Drawing Scrutiny


snip:
"All hurricanes are acts of God, because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that.

The newspaper carried the story in our local area, that was not carried nationally, that there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came. And the promise of that parade was that it would was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other gay pride parades.

So I believe that the judgment of God is a very real thing."

Hagee also said, in the same interview, "Islam in general -- those who live by the Koran have a scriptural mandate to kill Christians and Jews."

And the pastor suggested in a book called "Jerusalem Countdown" that, as Sarah Posner puts it, "military confrontation with Iran is foretold in the Bible as a necessary precondition for the Second Coming."

snip and link

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/02/29/politics/horserace/entry3892932.shtml


I wonder when and if this story will be on the TV?

[TwilightGardener]

1. They need to emphasize the anti-Catholic stuff he's said. That'll really

hit McCain in the nuts in terms of the blue-collar swing-state Catholic voter in the Northeast and Midwest--I'm hoping, anyway.

[featherman]

6. We can only hope... the anti-catholic stuff that gets spewed by

the pro-GOP fundies needs to be hammered home again and again. The MSM ignores this blatant hate talk while grilling our folks on the the likes of marginal nuts like Farrakahn

[spanone]

duper

[spanone]

2. another fucking raving lunatic with a tax exemption -- posing as a man of God..pfffit

i thank cbs for exposing this idiot

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Probably not

but, sadly, many Christian ministers are teaching their flocks lies about Islam such as the one mentioned here.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Ah the double standard is astounding

"This is no worse than some of the inflammatory comments Farakkhan has dropped over the years," wrote The New Republic's Dayo Olopade after listing some of Hagee's quotes. "But given a minor toasting (as oposed to the full-panini-press Barack Obama got on Tuesday evening) on Hagee's comments, McCain said, 'all I can tell you is that I am very proud to have Pastor John Hagee's support.' Not a rejection or denouncement in sight."

[TlalocW]

5. It was either Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert who pointed out

That the part of New Orleans that suffered the least from Katrina was the area where the parade was going to take place so God doesn't hate the gays just the gay-adjacent.

I love how they can make all these claims of scriptural mandates of other religions when the Bible scripturally mandates that we stone to death disobedient children, amongst other things.

TlalocW