posted on September 28, 2004 07:27:07 PM
Sorry, I just could resist posting the bigotry of this so called religious man.
Sep 28, 9:26 PM EDT
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A gay rights group is asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the tax-exempt status of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries following the preacher's recent remark that he would "kill" any gay man who looked at him.
The Capital City Alliance suggested that Swaggart's remarks disqualify his businesses from continuing to enjoy no-tax privileges.
"Swaggart Businesses/Ministries should not continue to enjoy the benefits of 'tax-free living' when his organizations use millions of tax-free dollars to travel around and degrade taxpaying Americans," said Joe Traigle, the group's co-chairman.
In a broadcast this month, Swaggart was discussing his opposition to gay marriage when he said "I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry."
And I'm going to be blunt and plain: If one ever looks at me like that, I'm going to kill him and tell God he died," Swaggart says, to laughter and applause from the congregation. He later apologized, saying the remark was meant to be humorous.
The gay rights group dismissed Swaggart's apology Tuesday. "We all know that there are people out there that take these things very, very seriously," said Randal Beach, a lawyer for the organization.
Swaggart was a popular television evangelist during the 1980s until a 1987 sex scandal involving a prostitute that he met in a seedy New Orleans motel. Swaggart never confessed to anything more than an unspecified sin. A few years later, he was stopped by police while driving in California with a suspected prostitute in his car.
He did not immediately respond to an e-mail message seeking comment Tuesday.
Now, I really don't know how anyone would really think that Jimmy Swaggart if anything more than a whore master. He was charged with partaking with a whore, then stopped with another suspected whore.
What really boggles my mind is that he still has followers. Are these people so blind that they can't see him for what he really is? They allow him to quote the bible for them, and guide them to their afterlife.
If your neighbor was a pastor, and was arrested for seeking the seeking the services of a prostitute, would you think the same of him?
This is a thread about the bigotry of religion and I approve of it's content.
posted on September 28, 2004 09:05:48 PM
Yes, it is very sad that so many people are so weak in their thinking.
I don't know how he could show his face to them again. Or why they would want to listen to him again. I guess he must fill a need for them. Swaggart must have true hate in his heart towards others.
I personally don't understand the concept of blind devotion. It must be in the christian world that a perosn can sin all they want as long as they ask for forgiveness after each time.
Bigots are miserable people. Prevent Bigotry through Education.
Prevent Bigotry through Education.