John McCain Loses A Millstone
John Hagee, an influential Texas televangelist who endorsed John McCain, apologized to Catholics Tuesday for his stinging criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and for having “emphasized the darkest chapters in the history of Catholic and Protestant relations with the Jews.”
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In a letter to William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights, Hagee wrote: “Out of a desire to advance a greater unity among Catholics and evangelicals in promoting the common good, I want to express my deep regret for any comments that Catholics have found hurtful.”Donohue, one of Hagee’s sharpest critics, said he accepted the apology and planned to meet with Hagee Thursday in New York.
“I got what I wanted,” Donohue said in an interview. “He’s seen the light, as they like to say. So for me it’s over.”
That ought to pretty much end the matter. It puts John McCain down one in the Unrepentant Religious Idiot column behind Barack Obama. Of course, Obama still leads heavily in the Unrepentant Domestic Terrorist column by at least 2-0 and is still figuring out how to leverage has lead in the Foreign Islamist Murder Organization category into an electoral success.
I’ve never been quite sure what the hubbub over Hagee was about. I regularly attend an evangelical church and I’ve never heard the guy’s name before, as opposed to that of Jeremiah Wright whose name I knew from hearing about the twisted Black Liberation Theology. But, what he said was a really big deal to some folks and it appears that he’s sorted out his disagreements amicably with his harshest critic. That ought to be the end of that.
Other Posts of Interest:
- It Looks Like John McCain Has Learned His Lesson All Right.
- NC Repubs to John McCain: You’re Not the Boss of Me!
- John McCain Has a Small Government Track Record? Who Knew?
Category: Gimme that Old Time Religion, Johnny Mac
"I regularly attend an evangelical church and I’ve never heard the guy’s name before,"
Heh. Remember how just before the 2006 elections, Ted Haggard suddenly became the Evangelical Pope, and His Sins Were Our Sins?
It worked then.
I know and I said the same thing about Haggard.
I honestly think that Democrats consider Evangelical Christians like one big voting bloc, much in the same way they think of blacks and women and gays. It doesn't seem to occur to them that there are many varieties of ECs and that we don't even think alike doctrinally, much less politically.
It's almost like independent thought is alien to them.