When a preacher delivers a politically incorrect sermon at Barack Obama's church, the headlines (and criticism) are enormous. But when Pastor John Hagee (friend of the Republicans and Joe Lieberman) says even worse things, we have to dig deep to find any media coverage.
Thank goodness for YouTube. Here we find an old 2003 video of Hagee warning us of the coming Antichrist. This Antichrist, Hagee tells us, "will have fierce features" and "is going to make Hitler look like a choirboy." When he first comes to power, he will "slaughter one-third of the Earth's population."
Then Hagee gets more personal, and tells us that this Antichrist will be "a blasphemer and a homosexual". And he's going to be partially Jewish.
Of course I am offended by this diatribe on so many levels. Not only does Hagee make his Antichrist out as a homosexual and a Jew (as opposed to a "proper" straight Christian), but a fierce one at that. Give me a break. I think of the gay people I know, including the Jewish ones, and they're some of the least fierce people on this planet.
And then there is Senator Joe Lieberman, a Jew, who still plans to deliver the keynote speech at Hagee's upcoming Christians United for Israel summit (possibly joined by Democratic congressman Elliot Engel).
Barack Obama had to go so far as to officially resign from the Trinity Church that he attended for 20 years in order to avoid further baggage from politically incorrect sermons by former Pastor Jeremiah Wright or any other controversial preacher who might cross that particular pulpit.
But Lieberman stands by his man Hagee, who takes political incorrectness to a far greater level.
Is this not a double standard?
Where is the outrage?
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