{"id":6329,"date":"2004-09-20T21:52:56","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T04:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/09\/20\/how-christlike-not.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T15:20:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T22:20:35","slug":"how_christlike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/20\/how_christlike.html","title":{"rendered":"How Christlike … not"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s perhaps inappropriate to ascribe motivations to people, but certainly it’s not inappropriate to say that Jimmy Swaggart doesn’t seem particuarly Christian in this proclamation<\/a>:<\/p>\n

During the program, a rambling sermon by Swaggart who is trying to rehabilitate himself after an arrest for soliciting a prostitute, the televangelist turned to the subject of gay marriage.
\nAccording to a transcript of the program, Swaggart said: “I’m trying to find the correct name for it … this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men. … I’ve never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I’m gonna be blunt and plain; if one ever looks at me like that, I’m gonna kill him and tell God he died.”
\nThe remarks were met with applause from his congregation.
\nThe program was taped at Swaggart’s ministry in New Orleans where voters Saturday agreed to amend the Louisiana constitution to bar same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

It is certainly Mr Swaggart’s privilege to consider gay marriage stupid (just as I consider a number of things “stupid” that others think are correct). It’s sort of ignorant for Swaggart to somehow judge that it’s idiotic just because he <\/em>never found himself attracted to men. I’ve never seen a raw tomato that looked gustatorially attractive to me, but that doesn’t mean I think folks are idiotic for wanting to eat them. Still, there’s no accounting for tastes …<\/p>\n

But assuming Swaggart’s final comments are recorded accurately, I can’t imagine Christ suggesting that someone who looks at you lustfully deserves killing (and deserves prevarication toward God about it).<\/p>\n

I don’t agree with the complaint brought in Canada for the broadcast of the sermon (it’s better for folks to hear Swaggart making a jerk of himself than to suppress that speech). Though don’t get me started on Louisana’s new constitutional amendment. <\/p>\n

But regardless of all that, Swaggart’s statements are not what I see Christianity as representing, and I certainly, as a Christian, condemn them in no uncertain terms.<\/p>\n

(via Volokh<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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