John McCain-backing pastor John Hagee may have “retracted” his “gays caused Katrina” comments, but he’s got a whole slew of other offensibles.
Here are two of our favorites from a totally frightful top ten:
“The military will have difficultly recruiting healthy and strong heterosexuals for combat purposes. Why? Fighting in combat with a man in your fox hole that has AIDS or is HIV positive is double jeopardy.”
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“It is impossible to call yourself a Christian and defend homosexuality. There is no justification or acceptance of homosexuality…. Homosexuality means the death of society because homosexuals can recruit, but they cannot reproduce.”
Let it be known that McCain has not denounced Hagee.
Z.
SICKO!
http://www.ilovezeren.com
stu
And he’s not going to denounce him, and the Press isn’t going to make his association with Hagee into a headline questioning McCain’s fitness for office, his integrity or his commitment to American pluralism.
If McCain were African American well then that would be another story!!
CitizenGeek
Stu makes a good point. The media is being totally out of order when it comes to John McCain!
George
What I find the most ridiculous is if you compare this guy to Reverend Wright, a right-wing person will say “well Hagee wasn’t his pastor for 20 years”. Well yea. McCain has no previous personal relationship with Hagee. He simply sought this guys endorsement for political reasons, knowing full-well the horrible things he’s said in the past. He has no longstanding personal relationship with him so denouncing him and rejecting his support should be very easy. Its ten times worse in my opinion.
todd
McCain is an insane whore. He will climb into bed with anyone for a vote.
queerunity
is he actually implying that being next to someone with HIV is a risk for contracting the disease?
http://www.queersunited.blogspot.com
shivadog
STU – I don’t think the media ignores this because McCain is white, but rather because he is republican. Republican presidents from Reagan thru Bush have committed high crimes and treason for which they should be tried as war criminals, and have been given a free ride by the press, while Clinton was impeached (and crucified in the press)for getting a bj from his intern. That is the way our “liberal media” works.
mary louise
Well, one can see again, that these fundamental Christians really don’t know the Bible. If I am correct, Jesus said, “…I did not come into the world “to change” the law; I came to fulfill the law.”
It is most interesting to note, in passages dealing with “sin” (all sin), no sin is greater than another sin “except” for the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
Also, it is interesting to note, if Jesus came to fulfill the law and “not” change it, it must mean one is going to die and go to hell for eating pork….one is going to die and go to hell for divorce…one is going to die and go to hell for not marrying his brother’s wife if the wife is widowed…
DO I need to go on…BUT of course, when it comes to homosexuality, all the “born again” preachers, etc., want to pounce on it, but isn’t it interesting how they put all the other “GOD” proclaimed sins to the side…
Hallelujah!!!
Shabaka
Wait, what…Homosexuals are being recruited? Where?
Puddy Katz
There will be stupid people forever. Hagee is one of them and leads a congregation of stupid people. They will never go away entirely.
However Hagee was not McCain’s pastor for decades, he is a guy who supports him. The emphasis on Wright in the media is justified.
queerunity
well puddy i think the connection between obama and wright is closer but nonetheless when a psycho like hagee endorses mccain it is mccain’s job to speak out against these psycho comments.
http://www.queersunited.blogspot.com
Kid A
Obama is trying to distance himself from Wright.
McCain actively sought out this guy’s support.
haji727
If he had any knowledge of what goes on in the military, he would know that a person who happens to be HIV positive will not be sent to combat. Once a person is tested positive, he/she is moved from any deployable units and moved to a nondeployable unit. They are not allow for overseas tours also. So that B/S he is talking about AIDS/HIV in a foxhole is coming out of his ass.
haji727
Soldiers who are HIV-positive will not be deployed (PCS or TDY) OCONUS. Soldiers serving OCONUS who are confirmed as HIV positive will be expeditiously reassigned to CONUS.
The fact that HIV-positive soldiers are nondeployable does not preclude their assignment to a TOE or MTOE deployable unit in CONUS, except for the closed units listed below. Commanders may not impose additional assignment restrictions on HIV-positive soldiers without first obtaining DCSPER approval. Soldiers may be assigned to units for a normal tour (a normal tour for these purposes is three years from reporting date to the unit).
todd
Just make a commercial with ALL Haggee’s nutty remarks spliced with McCain’s glowing acceptance of Haggee’s endorsement.
Mr C
If you notice none of those Hillary race baiters are getting on this one. OOPS I guess John Hagee is white.
AHHHH Better Luck next time