McCain and the Crackpot

McCain has already won the endorsement of John Hagee, the Texas end-times phony TV evangelist. Lucky John.

He has also won the endorsement of another religious right crackpot, Rod Parsley of Ohio. Parsley, like Hagee, is the operator of a huge mega-church, which serves as a center for his religious skullduggery.

Parsley, 51, "claims to be fomenting revolution at God's direction. This revolution -- theocratic in character, of course -- is portrayed by Parsley as a battle between the beleaguered, persecuted Christian and a secular culture that has devolved into chaos."

He forsees an apocalyptic showdown between the forces of good and evil, which will involve Islam. "I do not believe our country can truly fulfill its divine purpose until we understand our historical conflict with Islam," he said.

Homosexuals come under his strong condemnation. " ... the pressure on society to accept the audacious behaviors and disastrous consequences of homosexual activity is not a matter of cultural drift or shifting mores; it is a highly orchestrated, highly organized, and extremely disciplined political program."

Parsley claims to be divinely inspired and one who can clearly determine the difference between right and wrong. He has been "annointed" by God to lead a moral revolution which he says will lead to a "Third Great Awakening."

Essentially, Parsley is a political animal who has been instrumental in promoting the policies of the ultra-conservative Republicans. Some would even credit him with Bush's election. He is a very dangerous man who should be taken seriously. One of his goals is to help establish a Christian nation ruled under God's law, and he is the leader of a off-beat group called "Patriot Pastors."

Parsley is not shy about proclaiming what God has informed him what is right and wrong. Thus, hate-crime laws are promoted by liberal homosexuals in order to advance their agenda. Adultery should be treated as "lying, cheating and stealing." He's opposed to abortion for any reason, and thinks that Planned Parenthood is as bad as the Nazis.

Parsley is a high school graduate, a Bible school dropout, a shyster who promotes the "prosperity" gospel (God wants you to be rich), who thinks he can heal people, who sells "prayer cloths" which are supposed to have magical healing powers, demands that his people give 10% of their income, lives in a million-dollar mansion, and thinks he has been chosen by God to bring the United States under God's "dominion."

According to Pam Spaulding of Pam's House Blend, a Michigan court ruled in 2007 that anyone involved in an extramarital affair "can be prosecuted for first-degree criminal sexual conduct."
She says that made Parsley very happy.

Pam points out that McCain is a "divorced adulterer."

But never mind about that, Parsley thinks McCain would be a great president, and ol' John gratefully accepted this endorsement by this man of God, this great spiritual leader. Campaigning in Cincinnati, McCain appeared with Parsley at the latter's World Harvest Church, and said that Parsley was "a spiritual guide."

Parsley said that McCain was "a strong, true, consistent conservative ..."

Oh, barf. Again, I ask, where's Tim Russert?