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Anti-Catholic pastor who endorsed McCain likened to Farrakhan
CNA ^ | March 1, 2008

Posted on 03/01/2008 6:21:35 AM PST by NYer

Sen. John McCain / Rev. John Hagee

Washington DC, Mar 1, 2008 / 03:43 am (CNA).- The endorsement of Senator John McCain by a Catholic-bashing Texas minister won swift rebuke from the president of the Catholic League and a Jewish leader concerned about his “vicious and inflammatory” anti-Catholicism. 

Both compared the minister to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

On Wednesday Pastor John Hagee endorsed Senator John McCain’s bid to become the Republican presidential candidate in the 2008 election. 

Senator McCain responded to the endorsement by calling Hagee “the staunchest leader of our Christian evangelical movement,” praising Hagee’s pro-Israel stance.

President of the Catholic League Bill Donohue harshly criticized the endorsement.

“There are plenty of staunch evangelical leaders who are pro-Israel, but are not anti-Catholic. John Hagee is not one of them,” Donohue said on Thursday.  “Indeed, for the past few decades, he has waged an unrelenting war against the Catholic Church. For example, he likes calling it ‘The Great Whore,’ an ‘apostate church,’ the ‘anti-Christ,’ and a ‘false cult system’.”

Donohue said that in Pastor Hagee’s latest book the minister claimed Hitler was a Catholic who murdered Jews while the Catholic Church did nothing.  “The sell-out of Catholicism to Hitler began not with the people but with the Vatican itself,” wrote Hagee, according to Bill Donohue.

Donohue criticized the remarks, saying, “For the record, Hitler persecuted the Catholic Church and was automatically excommunicated in 1931—two years before he assumed power—when he acted as best man at Joseph Goebbel’s Protestant wedding. Hitler even bragged about his separation from the Church. As for doing nothing about the Holocaust, Sir Martin Gilbert reminds us that Goebbel denounced Pope Pius XII for his 1942 Christmas message criticizing the Nazis (the New York Times lauded the pope for doing so in an editorial for two years in a row). Much to Hagee’s chagrin, Gilbert also says that Pius XII saved three quarters of the Jews in Rome, and that more Jews were saved proportionately in Catholic countries than Protestant countries.”

Rabbi Irwin Kula, president of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, echoed Donohue’s criticisms.  In a Friday statement, Rabbi Kula said, “Just as Jews and other people of good will have appropriately demanded that Barack Obama unambiguously renounce and reject the endorsement of Minister Louis Farrakhan because of his bigotry and rabid anti-Semitism so Jews and other people of good will should demand that John McCain renounce and reject the endorsement of Pastor John Hagee because of his vicious and inflammatory anti-Catholicism.”

Rabbi Kula said Pastor Hagee’s position on Israel “does not mean he should be given carte blanche to denigrate and malign another religion.”  He continued, saying, “Barack Obama showed his integrity when he rejected Minister Farrakhan’s hate whatever the political costs and sensitivities. John McCain is also a man of integrity. He needs to similarly reject Pastor Hagee’s hate whatever the political calculations and consequences.”

In a Friday statement Bill Donohue said Senator McCain’s opponent for the nomination, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, had expressed “disappointment and surprise” that Hagee had not chosen him.  Donohue also compared Hagee to Louis Farrakhan, wondering why the candidates were fighting over the endorsement of such a figure.

Donohue also called on McCain to shun Hagee’s endorsement.

“Just this week, McCain repudiated the remarks of talk radio host Bill Cunningham,” Donohue said.  “He should now repudiate Hagee’s long record of bashing Catholicism. After all, George W. Bush apologized for speaking at Bob Jones University, and Hagee makes Jones look like a lightweight in the ring of bigotry."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: catholicbashing; farrakhan; hagee; hageebashing; icallbs; johnhagee; mccain; tx2008
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To: muir_redwoods

I have no clue what you’re talking about.


141 posted on 03/01/2008 4:41:56 PM PST by Theo (Global warming "scientists." Pro-evolution "scientists." They're both wrong.)
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To: verga

Another wise guy ~ you people are just too smart for me. Here, take these knives ~ go outside and play with the big kids, OK. Watch out, they’re sharp!


142 posted on 03/01/2008 4:56:24 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: verga

This is a predominantly European country ~ it applies. It’s one of the fundamentals in our history ~ much like Christianity and Judaism, guns and eating meat every day.


143 posted on 03/01/2008 4:58:56 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: verga
Your leider has educated us all quite enough. Have him back off the theology, or maybe he wants to run for Pope.

All I can figure is this guy's mother wanted him to be a priest but he liked girls too much.

144 posted on 03/01/2008 5:00:02 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
Catholics should take this guy by the shorthairs and toss him under the nearest ecclesiastical bus before he uses any more fighting words.

Like hell.

We should all send his organization twenty bucks each.

145 posted on 03/01/2008 5:05:13 PM PST by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: JRochelle
Maybe I am missing something but why does McCain have to go out and repudiate every jerk who endorses him?

In this case it's because he stepped up on the podium and proudly accepted it.

146 posted on 03/01/2008 5:07:30 PM PST by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: muawiyah
Donohue is in violation of the provisions of the Treaty of Westphalia signed by the Pope himself (and not since repudiated by any Pope).

Oh do tell.

147 posted on 03/01/2008 5:10:48 PM PST by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: Petronski

Jefferson was wrong in your case.


148 posted on 03/01/2008 5:12:55 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: A.A. Cunningham; muawiyah
Donohue is challenging an elected official, McCain, to repudiate an obese ignoramus masquerading as a preacher, Hagee. Furthermore, those links I posted, which are only a small sample of the entire collection, prove that Donohue has indeed publicly rebuked Democrats providing us all with irrefutable proof that your previous claim, "You never hear Donohoe(sic) take a swipe at Democrats.", was a lie, thus you are a liar and as big a buffoon as Hagee. Congratulations.

It's intuitively obvious to the most casual observer that all the money that was wasted in the futile attempt to educate you would have bore more fruit being flushed down a commode.

Oh, stop your hate speech you... you... you big meanie!

149 posted on 03/01/2008 5:20:56 PM PST by Barnacle (Reagan Republicanism R.I.P.)
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To: A.A. Cunningham
An ignorant statement like that confirms that you're simply a lazy fool with internet access who doesn't know how to use it properly.

Ding ding ding!

Johnny, show the man what he's won!

150 posted on 03/01/2008 5:22:57 PM PST by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: NYer

Hagee is endorsing McCain for two reasons—McCain supports Israel and has a pro-life voting record. Obama and Hillary don’t.


151 posted on 03/01/2008 5:26:08 PM PST by pray4liberty (Watch and pray.)
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To: Barnacle
Did I say that? And which Democrat's theological positions did Donahue challenge?

I get the idea that an awful lot of Catholics are too ignorant of normal Protestant religious discussion to be allowed into it. They confound politics with church attendance, ecclesiastical structures with Gospel truth handed down by God, and to top it off are afraid they will be offended (and thereupon tossed into paroxysms of acute shame and rage) by a guy with a mere 15,000 followers when they themselves have hogged about 2,000,000,000 followers ~ and already have front-row center with the MSM on Easter AND Christmas!

Give it up guys ~ you're far from being the minority you want to be, and victim status does not become you.

Give it a rest.

152 posted on 03/01/2008 5:27:31 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
...a guy with a mere 15,000 followers...

He's on television nationwide, seemingly every day, and he only has 15,000 followers?

Face it, man: he sucks.

153 posted on 03/01/2008 5:33:47 PM PST by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: Petronski

That’s your problem. Sometimes they call it “sour grapes syndrome”.


154 posted on 03/01/2008 5:55:10 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Sour grapes? What? That I want to be a pig-ignorant televised bigot on nationwide TV but can’t get it done so I say I don’t want that?

That’s rich.

Meanwhile, your ridiculous claim about only “15,000 followers” is obliterated.


155 posted on 03/01/2008 6:00:48 PM PST by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: Petronski

You and Marion Cotillard appear to have the same problem ~


156 posted on 03/01/2008 6:02:33 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
Ad hominem attacks are a sure sign you have failed.
157 posted on 03/01/2008 6:06:53 PM PST by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: Petronski

You don’t have the slightest idea who that woman is do you?


158 posted on 03/01/2008 6:10:18 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

You’re wrong yet again. Does it hurt?


159 posted on 03/01/2008 6:10:55 PM PST by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: Petronski

Petronski, I learned years ago to never accept any of your claims about anything. You never back ‘em up, and all the references you give usually flash one of those “not in service” messages.


160 posted on 03/01/2008 6:17:07 PM PST by muawiyah
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