Posted on 06/16/2005 7:44:08 AM PDT by missyme
When televangelist Jimmy Swaggart said he would kill a homosexual who looked at him romantically, he violated the ethics code of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, an industry panel has ruled.
Swaggart made the remarks during a discussion of same-sex marriage on a Sept. 12 broadcast that was carried by the Toronto station Omni 1.
"I'm going to be blunt and plain: If one ever looks at me like that, I'm going to kill him and tell God he died," Swaggart said.
Swaggart also said that politicians who are undecided on the issue of same-sex marriage "all oughta have to marry a pig and live with him forever."
The comments prompted a complaint that was filed with the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, the arm of the CAB that deals with viewer feedback.
A few days later, Swaggart backtracked, saying the expression was a figurative one. He said he has used the expression "killing someone and telling God he died" in jest thousands of times.
"If it's an insult, I certainly didn't think it was, but if they are offended, then I certainly offer an apology," he told the Associated Press.
The council ruled that Omni 1 was entitled to broadcast Swaggart's views opposing same-sex marriage, as well as his criticism of politicians who take no stand.
But it added that the station breached the CAB's human rights and religious programming clauses "on the basis of Swaggart's suggestion that killing someone would be the proper way for one to respond to homosexuality."
The panel said the debate over same-sex marriage is "more than legitimate" and "democratically essential" but said Swaggart's "negativity" was "visceral."
"The problem of Swaggart's language is, in a sense, exacerbated by the fact that he, as a religious figure, can be presumed to set an example for his community. It would, therefore, be easy for someone to infer that this might be the proper way for a Christian of this sect (or possibly of any sect) to respond to homosexuality," the ruling added.
Omni 1 issued an on-air apology shortly after the broadcast, so it is not required to broadcast the council's decision.
Both the CAB and CBSC are non-governmental organizations.
Swaggart has condemned Catholics, Jews and non-Pentecostal Protestants in the most vicious ways possible. His anti-Catholic bigotry is well documented. How is his hate any different from a mullah's?
His so-called apology sounds like the ones politicians make all the time!!!
I had no idea that term was *Southern* kind of odd IMO, but hey Swaggart is the cousin to Jerry Lee Lewis who married his 13 yr old cousin, I think they are maybe from the:
Silver Dollar Trailer Park?
i have to tell you how sad this is. i liked listening to him as a young man speak and his music. of late however he's a sad relic of former man. this sounds like yet another example of looneyness, (is that a word?)
nick
That's what all those tears were from... that plank stuck in his eye.
LOL, there is NO explaining some of the sayings I hear. Commodes, warshing machines.....and one of my favorites she taught me: Get all you can, can all you get and sit on the can.
Swaggart obviously suffers from mental illness! His past daliances with the most obscene of pornography and dominatrixes testify to his strange sexual proclivities... IMHO, there is some sort of abuse or wierd practices in his family's background and history--remember, his first cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis, married a 13-year-old relative.
Swaggart is the white man's Jesse Jackson.
As I said in my previous post,Jimmy and Jerry Lee sitting in the Trailer park while spitting in the Spotto, said
*hey cous' what do ya wanna do fer a living? Jerry Lee. Ah!! sanger, how bout you Jimmy? preachin! there ya go!
It is an old Southern expression which, like many Southern expressions, doesn't make any sense.
I lived briefly in the south! YIKES it is different.
Swaggart lost it many years ago. Why is anybody still listening to him?
Darn, right before I was going to send Jimmy a huge check he has to go put his foot in his mouth....
I've always said that asking directions in the South is the same as asking "Do you know any really dull stories about people I don't know?"
Is that old sack of cement still banging around?
Swaggart
Hilton
Clinton
Jackson
....
I was wondering the same thing. Who would watch him or give him money after his scandal?
Did he say these things ON CANADIAN land? How can he help it if Canadian TV broadcasts things made in America where WE have freedom of speech?
Maybe it's referring to Cain, who pretended to God not to know Abel's whereabouts. Except they're going to kill this person and then brag about it.
A refreshing breath of fresh air in this stinkhole
called the little white north.
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