Every once in a while, I read a news story that tastes about as good as a dish of Gumbo that’s been sitting out in the sun for five hours.
While visiting New Orleans and making a ton of empty promises, McCain was asked about the comments of Texas televangelist John Hagee. Hagee has said, “Hurricane Katrina was God’s retribution for homosexual sin”. Because, you know, everyone in New Orleans is gay. When my husband and I lived there, we magically turned gay too. It’s the real reason Bush never wants to visit; he’s worried he’ll return to the White House with a boyfriend. And it says in the Bible that if you’re gay, the levees will break and the government will become even more incompetent than before.
Wait; no, it doesn’t.
I wonder what God’s punishment would be for being a stupid judgmental fuck.
While McCain repudiated Hagee’s verbal diarrhea, he never renounced the pastor’s endorsement. Then, he made some comments about Barack Obama, whose former pastor’s incendiary remarks also have come under the microscope.
“I didn’t attend Pastor Hagee’s church for 20 years,” McCain said. “There’s a great deal of difference between someone who endorses you, and other circumstances. (Source: AP)
What other circumstances? Besides, that’s not a fair comparison; nobody could hear Hagee preach week after week without becoming violently ill.
So if anyone says something hateful, and then endorses McCain, it’s okay because he or she is not his pastor? How does that work? If this is the logic with which McCain hopes to convince voters, he is sending a clear message: he thinks the voters are dumb.
That filthy hypocrite.
