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Well, see, it wasn't particularly a discussion about religion itself. No one particularly cares what denomination Hagee is or even what Wright was; you'll notice the discussion of his racialist heresies are largely confined to left-wing blogs and right-wing magazines. It's the things they said, divorced from the "context" of the religion, that got people riled up.That said, I still don't recognize equivalence between the two men or the respective candidates. It should be pointed out that McCain didn't patronize this church for decades, didn't donate huge quantities of money to it, didn't rely on its pastor for advice, didn't waste time qualifying his relationship to it with needless yammering about "context" and statements like "it's not particularly controversial" when he'd heard about it (or at least when the media heard about it), and didn't give a big speech to explain everything that had nothing to do with it.And let's say, for a moment, that he had done all these things (which, being the worst case scenario, would still only make him equally as bad as Obama). Are you saying it's fundamentally not right for conservatives to have talked about the heretical racism of Obama's church, and that they should have let it go for simple reasons of political expediency?
Well, see, it wasn't particularly a discussion about religion itself. No one particularly cares what denomination Hagee is or even what Wright was; you'll notice the discussion of his racialist heresies are largely confined to left-wing blogs and right-wing magazines. It's the things they said, divorced from the "context" of the religion, that got people riled up.
That said, I still don't recognize equivalence between the two men or the respective candidates. It should be pointed out that McCain didn't patronize this church for decades, didn't donate huge quantities of money to it, didn't rely on its pastor for advice, didn't waste time qualifying his relationship to it with needless yammering about "context" and statements like "it's not particularly controversial" when he'd heard about it (or at least when the media heard about it), and didn't give a big speech to explain everything that had nothing to do with it.
And let's say, for a moment, that he had done all these things (which, being the worst case scenario, would still only make him equally as bad as Obama). Are you saying it's fundamentally not right for conservatives to have talked about the heretical racism of Obama's church, and that they should have let it go for simple reasons of political expediency?
