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Evangelist's anti-gay diatribe brings apology from TV station
Ottawa Citizen | Sept. 14, 2004 | Bob Harvey

Posted on 09/17/2004 8:25:44 AM PDT by pkajj

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1 posted on 09/17/2004 8:25:48 AM PDT by pkajj
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I wonder if Swaggart was quoted accurately.


2 posted on 09/17/2004 8:29:23 AM PDT by Notwithstanding
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As if checking into a cheap hotel room with hookers is much better.


3 posted on 09/17/2004 8:30:55 AM PDT by dfwgator (It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
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Swaggart is such a sleaze it's hard to defend him no matter what he rants about. For him to be saying anything about anyone's sexual proclivities is absurd.


4 posted on 09/17/2004 8:30:59 AM PDT by Casloy
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Methinks Swaggart doth protest too much.


5 posted on 09/17/2004 8:31:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
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To: pkajj

Any comments that Swaggert made about killing homosexuals should certainly be condemned. Next, we should find out if these Canucks condemn comments about killing anyone who disagrees with their "anything goes" philosophy. Or if they've ever heard of the concept of free speech (they haven't). Maybe these SOBs should consider a 1st amendment. Oh, wait. That would require a bill of rights, wouldn't it?


6 posted on 09/17/2004 8:32:35 AM PDT by jim35 (Will the press still be anti-war when a democRAT is in office?)
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and tell God he died

Jimmy operates independently of God, apparently.

7 posted on 09/17/2004 8:33:40 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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>>> I wonder if Swaggart was quoted accurately.

I hope not, and if he was, I think he exercised poor judgment. IMO, he should not be dragging the President's name into any diatribes when he is threatening to kill queers.


8 posted on 09/17/2004 8:34:21 AM PDT by dubyain04jebin08and12
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Sleazy or not, I'd rather live in a country where his type is allowed to have their say without going to prison, than to live in a country like Canada, where there is no such thing as a bill of rights, no freedom of speech, etc. Canada hasn't been a free country, ever, and lately has been sliding more and more toward oligarchy.


9 posted on 09/17/2004 8:36:35 AM PDT by jim35 (Will the press still be anti-war when a democRAT is in office?)
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These ridiculous prosecutors, district attorneys and judges, they should have to marry a pig forever!

He should know, he's hired enough of them for the evening.

So9

10 posted on 09/17/2004 8:37:02 AM PDT by Servant of the 9 (We are the Hegemon. We can do anything we damned well please.)
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Swaggart is nothing more than a snake oil salesman... I wonder if he ever lets the thought creep into his brain, that ONE day, he will actually have to answer for pretending to be a "man of God"....Jimmy I'd hate to be you on that day son!!!


11 posted on 09/17/2004 8:37:06 AM PDT by ArmyBratCutie
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According to a transcript of the program, the flamboyant evangelist said: ... "I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I'm gonna be blunt and plain; if one ever looks at me like that, I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died."

Yeah, I think we can call that one "over the top" if this transcript is accurate.

Stay the heck off my side, Swaggart.

12 posted on 09/17/2004 8:37:07 AM PDT by asgardshill (By direct order, I LOVE ALAN KEYES!)
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I'm against gay marriage, but Swaggart's hysterical rant just hurts the pro-marriage cause. Get a grip Jimmy! Also he's a total hypocrite and scumbag, as others have already pointed out. Still free speech is free speech, and as long as Swaggart didn't actually call for violence against gays, then his little rant should be protected. Of course that's how it would be in the US. In Canada there is no free speech anymore - hate speech codes are the rule of the land. I have a good friend who has dual citizenship and he told me of a case where a Canadian man ran a newspaper ad that solely consisted of Bible verses about homosexuality. Nothing but the Bible. This man was fined under the hate speech laws for the ad.


13 posted on 09/17/2004 8:38:02 AM PDT by sassbox
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We are now getting to the heart of what "separation of church and state" TRULY means. Although I don't agree with Mr. Swaggart on many of his thoughts, he has (or used to have) the perfect right to speak his religious beliefs without persecution or threat of legal action from the state.


14 posted on 09/17/2004 8:38:12 AM PDT by Angry Enough
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To: Servant of the 9

Hah! Good one! Oh, wait. Ugly mental picture (I'm going to my happy place...).


15 posted on 09/17/2004 8:38:21 AM PDT by jim35 (Will the press still be anti-war when a democRAT is in office?)
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"I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I'm gonna be blunt and plain; if one ever looks at me like that, I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died."

Yeah -- as though this isn't hyperbole??

Get real.

16 posted on 09/17/2004 8:38:25 AM PDT by F16Fighter
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And I'm gonna be blunt and plain; if one ever looks at me like that, I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died."

gay marriage aside, this is telling about his relationship with the creator -

Jimmy - its hate the sin - love the sinner......remember ?

17 posted on 09/17/2004 8:40:23 AM PDT by Revelation 911
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this from a country that loves draft dogers do much they are going to build a statue for them...you know, I hate to say this, but I truly feel it....If they ever need protecting, I say let them call on France...Whoever the President is then, just just "let the phone keep ringing" if that call ever comes......COWARD LOVERS!!


18 posted on 09/17/2004 8:40:29 AM PDT by ArmyBratCutie
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Just more truth spoken in love from our evangelical bretheren. Fact is, some homo out there might just not have heard for the 15,000th time how evil and perverse his or her behavior might be, and some in the congregation might be getting fuzzy on just how vile those child-corrupting sickos are, and how they want to destroy marriage--at least, what's left of it after all our evangelical divorces. Keep it coming, holy prophets! Speak that truth in love. Oh, of course, the words themselves are everything but loving, but that's what they need to hear!

Of course, we are all sinners, yadayada, but we all know that nothing we do approaches the sinfulness of those homos. There's sin, and then there's sin.

19 posted on 09/17/2004 8:40:52 AM PDT by kezekiel
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Hear hear! How can a country let itself slide into a totalitarian state so easily? If we don't stay vigilant, we'll be on the same path soon, if we're not already.


20 posted on 09/17/2004 8:43:06 AM PDT by jim35 (Will the press still be anti-war when a democRAT is in office?)
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