Evangelist Swaggart Apologizes for Remark

Associated Press ^ | 09/22/04

[Rocketman]

I can not possibly beleive that this man is back in the ministry. I am stunned that a complete reprobate like Swaggart is back spreading his personal defilement to the masses on television with an audiance financially footing the bill for him to do so.

For out of the heart the mouth speaketh. The man is a whitewashed tomb filled with dead men's bones and all manner of rotteness. Flee from such men.

[Pastnowfuturealpha]

It's sad, it really is - about what is going on in our society and elsewhere -

If I may - Once upon a time there was a time and place for everything - now - everything has come under one control. I put it to "politics", for lack of another word, and it's having a devastating impact all across the globe.

People are being told how to speak, how to think - and on and on it goes. Reminds me of mice and men - the mice are winning big time in my opinion -

[muawiyah]

We really have to presume that the dumbest remark was made by whoever it was in Canada who took offense.

For gosh sakes we are all just funny little foreign people to the Canuks, and it's not likely Jimmy Swaggart is going to be mobbed by a gang of gay Canadian men anyway ~ one would hope ~ but then again, after they've been locked up in the ice and snow all winter who knows what they might do when the ice breaks on the Yukon, eh?!

This also proves that there really is no freedom of speech in Canada. It's just another police state run by a snobbish elite who pick their noses and think we don't see it!

[Teplukin]

Are there dumb-ass evangelicals who are still sending money to this charlatan? What have they got, shoe-sized IQs?

Yup, Swaggart is a fool of the first order.

[muawiyah]

Tome for Cheryl Jacques to go back home wheere he/she belongs, eh?!

[tdadams]

You know, and don't take this wrong - but in the olden days his statement would not have been questioned by anyone

Such a statement was as wrong then as it is now. We recognize it as such today. That's a good thing. Statements like this don't reflect well on Christians.

[sinkspur]

Yup, Swaggart is a fool of the first order.

What does that make the people who send him money?

[Physicist]

I have always loved Swaggart, as a clown. He's a living parody of a certain breed of pseudo-Christian. He is not meant to be taken seriously either by Christians or by the leftists who hate them.

I saw his routine the other day, and laughed out loud at his anti-gay rant. Classic Swaggart. It's hard to believe that anyone would actually take offense at it. Rather, they should cherish his denunciations. It's like being insulted by Don Rickles.

[Pastnowfuturealpha]

I do believe you missed the point -

And I could name a few people I believe have a screw loose - but where would it get me - ? Attacked, maybe :)

Sticks and stones may break my back/bones - but words will never hurt me - Seems I've heard that someplace -

[muawiyah]

Evangelicals? I thought Swaggart was a Pentacostal ~ there's a difference ~ folks who belong to other church organizations should be required to learn those differences before opening their mouths.

[Skooz]

Oh for crying out loud. It was a JOKE!

He was attempting to have a little, silly humor during his monologue. It wasn't too funny, but it was harmless.

Some people need to lighten up, freepers included.

[umgud]

I thought he was that evangelist who wrote the book " A Ministers Guide to Lay People"

[The Lumster]

He says he was just joking but Jesus said:

...for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Math 12:34

What comes out of our mouths is what is truly in our hearts.

[RightWhale]

I haven't seen any of those TV personalities in years. Actually, I haven't seen any TV for several years except in the electronics department when I need some CD-Rs or something. People like those and Dan Rather are some of the reason I don't watch TV anymore.

[spodefly]

Speaking of wacked-out TV "preachers", what ever happened to Ernest Ansley?

[don-o]

Who cares what this wackjob says anyway?

[muawiyah]

I don't think he bothered to write a book about it. We all know he likes girls ~ to an extreme!

[TheCrusader]

How long ago was it that a statement like Swaggart's would have been taken with a huge grain of salt, because it simply echoed the sentiments of most other men? Especially since it was a big hypothetical "IF" a gay man....

So have men changed, or has freedom of speech been eroded, or has the cultural freedom for men to express their machoism been denied? I think it's the latter two. I don't like Swaggart, but this particular statement doesn't bother me at all.