Ethics

McCain Endorsed by Televangelists

By Ed Brayton

By now you probably know that John McCain has been endorsed by John Hagee, one of the looniest of the religious right televangelists. And unlike Obama, who explicitly disavowed the endorsement of Louis Farrakhan, McCain is basking in the glow of Hagee's endorsement, saying he is "very honored" to have it. Hagee is one of those ultra-nutty Protestants who thinks that the Catholic Church is the "whore of Babylon" (see him say so in this Youtube video).

Hagee has all kinds of bizarre views. He claims, for example, that George Washington hid a menorah in the tailfeathers of the eagle on a dollar bill (seriously). He said that Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment on New Orleans. He claims that a US invasion of Iran is foretold in the Bible (I love claims like that, as if the US is mentioned anywhere in a book written 2500 years before the US existed).

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 03, 2008 (boomark / email).