09-25-2004, 02:17 AM
Fucking asshole, Swaggert! Oh, FORGIVE ME LORD or cranking my little pink weenie while I pay a hooker to watch! Boooo hoooooo! (he's one of yours, right Republicans?)
Swaggart: 'Gay' comment a joke
By HEATH DRUZIN
hdruzin@theadvocate.com
Advocate staff writer
GO HERE for the video!
Swaggart says gay comment was a 'mistake'
Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart said he would choose his words more carefully after an outcry over a recent televised sermon in which he said he would kill a gay man who looked at him "like that."
"I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry," Swaggart said during the Sept. 12 service, in which he decried gay marriage, according to transcripts of numerous Web sites.
"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," he said to the applause and laughs of his congregation.
The Associated Press reports that a complaint was sent to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, after a Toronto television station aired the service.
Swaggart, whose Jimmy Swaggart Ministries is based in Baton Rouge, said his comments were "silly" and meant to be a joke.
"I can see how the homosexual community would be offended by that, and I won't say it any more," he said in a telephone interview.
Swaggart's statements have been posted on many gay-interest Web sites, some suggesting his comments could incite violence against gays.
Swaggart called such assertions "a real stretch of the imagination," saying he has never advocated violence.
"I am totally opposed to any type of violence against anyone," he said.
Swaggart said "homosexuals should be treated like everyone else," but he is "opposed to homosexuality."
"I will continue to preach against homosexuality, but do it in the right way," he said.
Joe Traigle, who heads the Baton Rouge gay rights group Capital City Alliance, challenged Swaggart to back up his statements with Scripture.
"I'll bring a Bible, and I want Swaggart to show me the chapter on hate and intolerance because my Bible didn't have it," Traigle said.
Traigle said remorse aside, "It's about time people like Jimmy Swaggart got called out on this."
"He should be in the future and will be in the future ignored by intelligent, independent, thinking people," Traigle said.
The flap comes as Swaggart is still trying to repair his reputation after he was caught visiting a prostitute in 1988.
The scandal came soon after Swaggart had launched attacks against fellow televangelists Jim Bakker and Marvin Gorman for their extramarital affairs. It prompted Swaggart to give a tearful televised confession to his Baton Rouge congregation.
Swaggart's reputation was further damaged in 1991 and ratings for his religious shows plummeted after he was found with a prostitute during a traffic stop in California.
Editor's note: The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Swaggart: 'Gay' comment a joke
By HEATH DRUZIN
hdruzin@theadvocate.com
Advocate staff writer
GO HERE for the video!
Swaggart says gay comment was a 'mistake'
Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart said he would choose his words more carefully after an outcry over a recent televised sermon in which he said he would kill a gay man who looked at him "like that."
"I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry," Swaggart said during the Sept. 12 service, in which he decried gay marriage, according to transcripts of numerous Web sites.
"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," he said to the applause and laughs of his congregation.
The Associated Press reports that a complaint was sent to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, after a Toronto television station aired the service.
Swaggart, whose Jimmy Swaggart Ministries is based in Baton Rouge, said his comments were "silly" and meant to be a joke.
"I can see how the homosexual community would be offended by that, and I won't say it any more," he said in a telephone interview.
Swaggart's statements have been posted on many gay-interest Web sites, some suggesting his comments could incite violence against gays.
Swaggart called such assertions "a real stretch of the imagination," saying he has never advocated violence.
"I am totally opposed to any type of violence against anyone," he said.
Swaggart said "homosexuals should be treated like everyone else," but he is "opposed to homosexuality."
"I will continue to preach against homosexuality, but do it in the right way," he said.
Joe Traigle, who heads the Baton Rouge gay rights group Capital City Alliance, challenged Swaggart to back up his statements with Scripture.
"I'll bring a Bible, and I want Swaggart to show me the chapter on hate and intolerance because my Bible didn't have it," Traigle said.
Traigle said remorse aside, "It's about time people like Jimmy Swaggart got called out on this."
"He should be in the future and will be in the future ignored by intelligent, independent, thinking people," Traigle said.
The flap comes as Swaggart is still trying to repair his reputation after he was caught visiting a prostitute in 1988.
The scandal came soon after Swaggart had launched attacks against fellow televangelists Jim Bakker and Marvin Gorman for their extramarital affairs. It prompted Swaggart to give a tearful televised confession to his Baton Rouge congregation.
Swaggart's reputation was further damaged in 1991 and ratings for his religious shows plummeted after he was found with a prostitute during a traffic stop in California.
Editor's note: The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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