Mccain stays quiet on homophobic slurs
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http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/09/mccain-hagee-slurs/
Earlier this week, right wing pastor John Hagee, a supporter of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), re-embraced his oft-repeated belief that Hurricane Katrina represented “the curse of God” for the sins of New Orleans. Though the media have put McCain on the spot over Hagee’s characterization of the Catholic Church as “the Great Whore,” they have been reticent to press McCain on Hagee’s homophobic comments.To his credit, Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly asked McCain last night about the “bad things” Hagee has said “about Catholics and gays and other things like that.” McCain only repudiated the statements about the Catholic church, however, tacitly refusing to denounce Hagee’s despicable homophobic slurs:
O’REILLY: OK. John Hagee is a guy…
MCCAIN: Yes.
O’REILLY: …that you sought his endorsement in San Antonio, Texas. He said bad things about Catholics and gays and other things like that. And your opponents are saying, hey, you know, McCain hangs around with Hagee. Obama hangs around Wright. No difference.
MCCAIN: I do not embrace a view that he stated about the Catholic church. I steadfastly reject it and repudiate it. I’ve never been in Pastor Hagee’s church. I know him, but the fact is that I accept his endorsement.
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needu
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And because of it, I wouldnt vote for him.
You cant say well since he associates with bad people, then so can the other candidates, and it is OK. I wouldnt vote for him because of things like that and I wouldnt vote for somebody else because of things like that. That's what any fair minded person would and should think. - 1 year ago
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needu
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Yoshi1
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While I wish that he would state that he disagrees with the statements about gays I know that he won't because he is playing toward the republican base.
- 1 year ago
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Yoshi1
