Reader Poll: Will Anti-Catholic Endorsement Hurt John McCain?
Reader Poll: Will Anti-Catholic Endorsement Hurt John McCain? Monday March 3, 2008 Last Wednesday, John McCain, the presumptive presidential nominee for the Republican Party in 2008, accepted the endorsement of San Antonio televangelist and megachurch leader John Hagee. Best known for his staunch Zionism and, more recently, for his claim that Christ is not the Messiah for Jews, Hagee is also bitterly anti-Catholic. Hagee’s anti-Catholicism is not simply confined to doctrinal disagreements. It’s one thing, for instance, to claim that the Catholic Church is “the apostate church”; when doing so, Hagee is simply being true to his own Protestant doctrine. But, according to the Associated Press, Hagee has also referred to the Catholic Church as a “false cult system” and “linked Adolf Hitler to the Catholic church, sugges
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}if(zs>0){zSB(3,3)}else{gEI(“spacer”).style.display=’none’;gEI(“sidebar”).style.display=’none’}Last Wednesday, John McCain, the presumptive presidential nominee for the Republican Party in 2008, accepted the endorsement of San Antonio televangelist and megachurch leader John Hagee. Best known for his staunch Zionism and, more recently, for his claim that Christ is not the Messiah for Jews, Hagee is also bitterly anti-Catholic. Hagee’s anti-Catholicism is not simply confined to doctrinal disagreements. It’s one thing, for instance, to claim that the Catholic Church is “the apostate church”; when doing so, Hagee is simply being true to his own Protestant doctrine. But, according to the Associated Press, Hagee has also referred to the Catholic Church as a “false cult sy
