Behold the double standard: John McCain sought out the endorsement of John Hagee, the warmongering, Catholic-bashing Texas preacher, who said the people of New Orleans got what they deserved for their sins.
But no one suggests McCain shares Hagee's delusions or thinks AIDS is God's punishment for homosexuality. Pat Robertson called for the assassination of a foreign head of state and asked God to remove Supreme Court justices, yet he remains a force in the Republican religious right.
After 9/11, Jerry Falwell said the attack was God's judgment on America for having been driven out of our schools and the public square, but when McCain goes after the endorsement of the preacher he once condemned as an agent of intolerance, the press gives him a pass.
Jon Stewart recently played tape from the Nixon White House in which Billy Graham talks in the Oval Office about how he has friends who are Jewish, but he knows in his heart that they are undermining America.
This is crazy and wrong -- white preachers are given leeway in politics that others aren't.
Which means it is all about race, isn't it?
Among the Christianista acolytes of Jeebus the Barbarian, minimum. Of course, in our Faith-based society these bozos run everything. Change that, and things might really change for the better.
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White preachers are given leeway that other's aren't? How much leeway do Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson get? Let's see...... the Duke rape case, Tawana Brawley, to name but two.
Seems like the last I heard, neither Sharpton nor Jackson were calling for the wrath of an old-testament hairy thunderer to smite Sodom a.k.a. any non-kristianist city.
You are grossly off-topic. This post is speaking of lunatic preachers calling for death and destruction supporting presidential candidates. There are plenty of white christian preachers doing that. Many are also multimillionaires.
For that matter, the Republicans have senior fellows of the American Enterprise Institute- like Robert Bork- who have called for another Great Depression to punish the unbelievers.
These men are particularly dangerous because their proximity to power enable them to bring about precisely the disasters that favor their political, corporate, and personal agendas.
I have never heard Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton call for anything like that.
I have not seen either get much if any leeway from the main$tream media for the last ten years.
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