The NYT’s Deborah Solomon interviewed anti-gay, Catholic-bashing, Armegeddon-worshipping, John McCain-endorsing megachurch pastor John Hagee. He was asked about his rant about gays bringing hellfire to New Orleans via Katrina.
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 are - 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 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.“This is what he said about the above in the interview.
Let’s talk about your much-quoted comment that Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for a gay rights parade in New Orleans . We’re not going down there. That’s so far off-base it would take us 33 pages to go through that, and it’s not worth going through.He must have those same imaginary self-loathing, potentially balcony jumping gay buds these bigots always refer to whenever they are asked that question. You all have any ideas of about a few closet cases that might be buds with Hagee?I am not eager to rehash it either, although I wish that evangelicals were not so hard on gays. Our church is not hard against the gay people. Our church teaches what the Bible teaches, that it is not a righteous lifestyle. But of course we must love even sinners.
Do you have any gay friends? I don’t want to say that I have any friends, because when you say, “Who are they?” I don’t want them jumping off the balcony.
Listen to McCain’s pathetic defense of Hagee to moral gambling man Bill Bennett after the jump.
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what, he’s not friends with Ted Haggard and Rod “male pubic hair” Parsley?
Do you have any gay friends? I don’t want to say that I have any friends, because when you say, “Who are they?” I don’t want them jumping off the balcony.
Seriously, folks like him who think like that really ought to, you know, leave the 1950s and join the 21st century.
Pam- Hagee is a seriously scary dude, but Somerby at the Howler was trying to source the worst of Hagee’s Catholic bashing and it seems that the quotes are hard to source (independently of Donohue, that is).
Hagee is, however, a malevolent force, that is clear.
There’s a chance I’m just not getting a reference here, but is he really saying he’s afraid to “out” his gay friends (as being his friends, not as being gay) because they’d rather kill themselves than admit association with him?
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(boggles)
No, no…I think Hagee’s quote is being misunderstood. They won’t jump off a balcony because of being outed as gay, they’ll jump off a balcony because of being outed as Hagee’s friends. They may not even know and the sheer shame of being a known friend of Hagee is surely enough to push someone to suicide.
and damnit…I’ve been scooped again…
That’s what it sounded like to me. LOL
Hell, if suddenly all your OTHER friends (the gay ones) shunned you, that’s a hard road. >8^D
Fixed. (I wish.)
I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they are - were recipients of the judgment of God for that.
I’ve never understood this. New Orleans was not the only town/area devestated by Katrina. Not by a long shot. Kinda puts some holes in that theory, doesn’t it Hagee?
Hagee’s brother was gay. He’s now deceased, but I have a friend that knew him. Apparently, he was a really decent guy. His brother didn’t even attend his funeral. What an a$$hole.
If Hagee named me as one of his friends, I’d be over the railing in a flash!