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   Wednesday, September 22, 2004

HOW ABOUT 'NO, THANK YOU'?

A story today on Jimmy Swaggart's apology following his clumsy advice on what to do when a homosexual makes a pass at you:

"'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 said to laughter and applause from the congregation. Today, Swaggart said he has jokingly used the expression 'killing someone and telling God he died' thousands of times, about all sorts of people. He said the expression is figurative and not meant to harm."

About all sorts of people? Thousands of times?
You read that too, right?

Evangelical Christians frequently harp about being persecuted by a liberal-dominated, politically-correct, secular-yada-yada society, but no one ever suggests killing them (or actually killing them, unlike these gay kids). The real reason they can attempt to claim some 'persecuted minority' status is that the majority of people are too intelligent to want anything to do with an idiot like Swaggart.