McCain’s Preacher: Gays “Detestable.”

Preachers, pastors, priests and the like have played quite a role this political season. Just ask Barack Obama - the Democratic presidential hopeful had to defend his ties to both Donnie McClurkin and Jeremiah Wright.

Republican John McCain, meanwhile, had a short-lived shit storm over Thomas Hagee, the Catholic bashing preacher man who endorsed the Arizona Senator and blamed the gays for Hurricane Katrina. McCain also had a bit of trouble from Rod Parsley, the Ohio-based Evangelical who takes regular swipes at the lavender set.

Certainly Parsley and Hagee’s respective opinions aren’t the most progressive, they’re less important to McCain than a man named Dan Yeary, the Baptist politico’s actual preacher.

While Yeary’s not as inflammatory as Parsley and Hagee, his views on the gays are pretty straight forward: we’re sinners. From the horse’s mouth:



McCain’s voting record proves at least a small amount of agreement. Yes, he opposed a federal amendment banning gay marriage, but that was only because McCain’s a firm believer in state’s rights, which he exhibited when he voted for his home state’s own prohibition, which failed.

People in Yeary’s position are known for their violent denouncements of gays, who some believe can be “cured” of their queer ways. Yeary’s not the naive, surprisingly, and doesn’t endorse reparative therapy. Rather, Yeary endorses the old fall back: celibacy.

Via Box Turtle Bulletin:



So, we gays do have a spiritual value, so long as we restrain our sexual expression. That’s fair, although his opinions still offend: “Homosexuality breaks God’s law. Scripture is precisely prohibitive in defying homosexual practices. God views homosexuality as detestable.” He also describes homosexuality as “less than ideal and is the product of the fall of humanity.

Though he doesn’t necessarily believe in ex-gay therapies, Yeary clearly believes the gays can be saved via the power of Christ:




Some voters may find Yeary’s relative tolerance to be a blessing, but his ultimate take causes us concern:



Religious hegemony? That’s far scarier than anything Wright ever dished out.

http://www.queerty.com/mccains-preacher-gays-detestable-20080407/

Emphasis added by moi. During any primary season, remember who is the real enemy.

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homosexuality. (He said the only legitimate reason to divorce was unfaithfulness...any other reason constituted adultery.)

As far as Saul, the Terrorist of Tarsus is concerned, this preacher must not know that he never met Jesus...they weren't even contemporaries...and Saul/Paul was a misogynist as well as a homophobe. About what one would expect from a guy who ate bad mushrooms and fell from a donkey onto his head while enroute to Damascus.

overwhelming sense of guilt at being a conspirator in the murder of innocent Christians. That this guilt then colored everything he did and said then on.

WTF?

Heh, the man's apparently not *that* confused. :)

As always, the bigoted religious voting block is well served by an assortment of candidates and pundits. Sadly this time it is a cross Party situation. I expect the Republican nominee to be connected to bigoted and opprotunitic preachers, but I do not like having the same thing on our side.
I hope the straight DU'ers who lecture gays and appease the bigots take the time to read this article and honestly begin to ask themselves how far a leap if any it is from McCain's people to McClurkin and Caldwell, and if they really wish to be associated with this sort of factionalist dogma based minortiy baiting at all. If Obama's anti-gay minister associates said all of this, as they have in the past if anyone cares to look it up, but if they did it again, would that also be defended, left without apology and declared Democratic? I wonder.

Period.

If he's not a black preacher who thinks 9/11 was a result of US foreign policy, then the corporate media will not be outraged. You naive folks on DU need to see that and understand there is a double standard. It's like trying to walk on thin ice for many black politicians and preachers.

In other news, the sun is hot and water is wet.

I truly loathe conservatives.