Gingrich Courts Incendiary Pastor Renounced by McCain in '08

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Source: Mother Jones


When Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) accepted the endorsement of Texas megachurch pastor John Hagee in 2008, the result was a PR disaster. After critics pointed to Hagee's incendiary views on gays (whom he held responsible for Hurricane Katrina) and Catholicism (which he described as a "false cult"), the Arizona Republican called Hagee's views "crazy and unacceptable" and renounced the endorsement.

But three years later, Hagee is once more involved in Republican presidential politics. Later this month, he'll host former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a 2012 aspirant, at Cornerstone Church in San Antonio. For the candidate and the pastor, the summit is a chance for two controversial figures to help each other back into the spotlight—though a Hagee spokesman says the pastor has no plans to endorse Gingrich.

"Every so often pops up like a Whac-A-Mole and then goes away again," says Chris Korzen, executive director of Catholics United, who was part of the anti-Hagee choir three years ago. "Why does someone like Newt Gingrich feel like he has to have a public association with this person? Clearly it's about politics."

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The pastor's history of incendiary comments meshes with his unique brand of Christian Zionism. He's warned, for instance, that the anti-Christ would be, gay, part Jewish, and president of the European Union. In his book, Jerusalem Countdown, he writes, "ost readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews." (He has since apologized, acknowledging that there were "thousands of righteous Catholics...who risked their lives to save Jews from the Holocaust.")


http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/03/newt-gingrich-john-hagee

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1. There it is folks

The Anti-Christ and his False Prophet!!!!:evilgrin:

[Enthusiast]

2. Hagee is one of the worst.

False prophet.

[brooklynite]

3. Isn't Gingrich now a Catholic?

Talk about a marriage of convenience...

[spanone]

4. gingrich = slimeball of the greatest magnitude