McCain’s Lunatic Minister Backtracks

Televangelist Reverend John Hagee, who has endorsed Arizona Republican Senator John McCain for president, went squishy on some of his anti-Catholic – he has a record of calling that Church “the great whore” – and anti-gay pronouncements in a New York Times Magazine interview. Asked about his “much quoted comment that Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for a gay-rights parade in New Orleans,” Hagee said, “That’s so far off-base it would take us 33 pages to go through that, and it’s not worth going through.” But on National Public Radio in 2006, Hagee specifically cited “a homosexual parade” as an example of “a level of sin that was offensive to God” in New Orleans and the precipitate for Katrina. McCain’s Lunatic Minister Backtracks