Tuesday, April 29, 2008

THE FOCUS ON REV WRIGHT AND FURTHER THOUGHTS ON OTHER AMERICAN "MINISTERS"

POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOKS IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES

A further thought.

Why is it that Wright's words so bother some Americans?

America has so many, many other examples of "ministers" who've done nothing but spew hate and ignorance.

Consider the fried-brain Pat Robertson, who, apart from a host of idiotic remarks, a few years ago called for the assassination of a foreign leader (Chavez).

Why wasn't he branded a terrorist?

Why wasn't he arrested under America's dark anti-terror laws?

Consider the late Jerry Falwell, the Jabba the Hutt of the Religious Right.

Falwell claimed homosexuals caused 9/11.

Falwell said once that the Anti-Christ (reference the Book of Revelations) was alive today, and he took the form of a male Jew.

Falwell sold tapes from the pulpit that suggested the Clintons murdered Vince Foster.

The man was a raving lunatic, but I guess so long as he did not touch the sacred name of America and things that it may have done wrong, he was okay. More than okay, he thrived and got lots of publicity.

Consider the "Rev" Jimmy Swaggert who said from the pulpit that he would kill a homosexual who made a pass at him.

The list is very long, and today includes a "minister" associated with John McCain, who made idiotic remarks getting little publicity.

Then there's a former minister of the Clintons who is on trial for child molestation.

Good God, what a lunatic asylum.