Ethics

Hagee Rewrites Past Statements

By Ed Brayton

The New York Times has an interview with John Hagee, who seems rather eager not to discuss some of his controversial past statements, or to distort them and claim he said something entirely different. Like this:

What about your observation in a recent book that "most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews"?

What I was trying to express was the fact that Christian anti-Semitism -- both Catholic and Protestant -- contributed to an environment in which Nazi racial anti-Semitism could flourish.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 31, 2008 (boomark / email).