Lieberman To Speak At Hagee Summit

By: Brian Montopoli
Topics: Joe Lieberman

The Rev. John Hagee made headlines recently after presumptive GOP nominee John McCain rejected his support following revelations that Hagee said in the late '90s that God sent Adolf Hitler to help get Jews to the promised land of Israel.

Now the Associated Press reports that Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut Democrat-turned-independent who is a strong McCain supporter, has not abandoned Hagee. Lieberman will speak at a July conference hosted by the pastor, "Christians United for Israel," in Washington.

According to the AP, Lieberman said that "while Hagee's comments were unacceptable and hurtful, he will judge him on his life work fighting anti-Semitism and building bridges between Christians and Jews."

Hagee has been criticized for his comments about other groups as well. He suggested that "Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans," noting "there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came." Hagee also made derogatory statements about the Catholic Church, including referring to it as "the great Whore," for which he later apologized.

Brian Montopoli
Brian Montopoli is the senior political reporter at CBSNews.com.
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by bdevine8 May 28, 2008 9:25 PM EDT: John Hagee is not the only religious leader who disdains the Roman church. There are many other Bible based students and teachers who see clearly that much of the practices and doctrines of the Roman church are exactly that - Roman - taken from the prior pagan practices of Rome and Europe. This is is not a good witness to Jesus - especially to Muslims. In the last days of Rome, when the empire had become ''Christianized'' - it was a church/state thing to accept Jesus, and the Roman church did not follow through on clearly and cleanly applying God''s Word in its teaching. In fact, it told the people that the Roman church itself was the authority. That''s why the Founding Fathers were so different and successful. They were Bible-literate and were actually able to apply God''s Word to their personal and public lives. With some falling short of course. Christians see people who just want something tangible (and have all kinds of relics) to make their faith palatable. This is a pattern like the pagans. But they are not instructed that the New Testament says ''worship in spirit and truth''. It truly is cult-like to threaten those who would want to be faithful with maybe-yes and maybe-no as to whether your sacraments are legit. It is absolutely bizarre for a ''saint''s'' finger bone to arrive in NW Indiana in a glass case and have thousands line up to be blessed. When did Jesus or his followers ever do anything like these things?; Reply to this comment


by mattcat25 May 28, 2008 7:28 PM EDT: A Jew, a Christian, and a Muslim go into a bar see%u2026
The Bartender looks up and says "what is this, a joke?"; Reply to this comment