The Reverend John Hagee, pastor of the evangelical Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, has said some over-the-top rude things about the Catholic Church. Some on the left, the most prominent of whom is probably FNC’s Alan Colmes, though I think Mary Matalin’s cueball husband did some of that as well, have attacked Hagee as McCain’s equivalent of Jeremiah Wright. That’s clearly not the case, of course, though one has to wonder what McCain would do with Hagee’s endorsement when the man had insulted Catholics as he had.
Hagee has apologized.
I don’t know if this incident is “over,” but I doubt it. Look, Hagee was never McCain’s pastor as Jeremiah Wright was Obama’s spiritual mentor, the man who brought him to Christianity by teaching him that the black identity includes racial hatred. Hagee, some guy who had endorsed McCain, had marginalized himself somewhat as an anti-Catholic bigot, but once he meets with Catholics and takes bias courses, the press might let him back into whatever section of the lunacy graph they have reserved for Christians who do not hate.
