{"id":578,"date":"2008-05-02T10:58:19","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T10:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/05\/controversial-new-hagee-video.html"},"modified":"2008-05-02T10:58:19","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T10:58:19","slug":"controversial-new-hagee-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/05\/controversial-new-hagee-video.html","title":{"rendered":"Controversial New Hagee Video Surfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/05\/01\/hagee-abortion-easier-to_n_99640.html\">The Huffington Post<\/a> is steering readers to new video of John Hagee (below)&#8211;the Texas evangelist whose John McCain endorsement generated controversy because of Hagee&#8217;s past anti-Catholic statements&#8211;that&#8217;s sure to raise some eyebrows. Sure, Hagee&#8217;s not McCain&#8217;s regular pastor, so he&#8217;s not the Republican equivalent of Jeremiah Wright. But here are some quotes from Hagee&#8217;s sermon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8211;&#8220;America has become a pagan society.&#8221;&#8211;&#8220;When a school teacher cannot refer to the Ten Commandments on the wall but can command your child to read Harry Potter, which is nothing but a precursor of witchcraft, we&#8217;re going in the wrong direction here&#8230;. When the Boy Scouts of America are censored and penalized for refusing to accept homosexual scout leaders, we are a pagan nation where we&#8217;re rebirthing Sodom and Gomorrah!&#8221;&#8211;&#8220;Your daughter can get an abortion in public school without telling you but she can&#8217;t get an aspirin without your approval.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, he&#8217;s not the Republican Wright, but should McCain nonetheless be expected to disown Hagee for such talk? So far, McCain&#8217;s continued to say that he&#8217;s happy to have Hagee&#8217;s support, even if he regretted seeking his endorsement (no, you&#8217;re not the only one <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/04\/mccain-regrets-hagee-endorseme.html\">confused about that<\/a>).The video, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/story\/2008\/5\/1\/11248\/20491\">whose poster<\/a> has little information on when it was taped. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/egghead.cc.trincoll.edu\/weblogs\/SpiritualPolitics\/2008\/05\/moral_equivalence.html\">Spiritual Politics<\/a> for the tip. Here &#8217;tis:<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oMsNr5exqDw&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oMsNr5exqDw&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><!--more-->7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Huffington Post is steering readers to new video of John Hagee (below)&#8211;the Texas evangelist whose John McCain endorsement generated controversy because of Hagee&#8217;s past anti-Catholic statements&#8211;that&#8217;s sure to raise some eyebrows. Sure, Hagee&#8217;s not McCain&#8217;s regular pastor, so he&#8217;s not the Republican equivalent of Jeremiah Wright. 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