Related
Translate
Previous entry: Ex-Worker Accusing TBN Pastor Says He Had Sex to Keep His Job
Next entry: Germany bans Islamic conference
Get RNB via RSS
 |
RNB's RSS feed What is this? |
Get RNB via Email
 |
 Subscribe by Email What is this? |
Follow: Twitter
Most Popular
This Week:
- Guyana’s Jonestown suicide site gets plaque
- Scientology practices ‘putting people at risk’
- Recession: Muslim schools in UK under threat of closure
- Australian senator tells Parliament of widespread criminal conduct within the Church of Scientology
- When a child dies, faith is no defense
- World’s oldest ocean-going passenger ship, ministry ship Doulos, to stop sailing
- Israel Charges Extremist With Attempted Murder Of Messianic Family
- Scientology’s feet held to the fire in Australia: Struggle between a church and the state
- 1-year prison term for man who participated in cyber attack on Church of Scientology Web sites
- Australian police take up complaints about Scientology
Swaggart contrite after antigay remark
More articles on this topic: Jimmy Swaggart‘Tongue-in-cheek’ comment draws fire
In the face of public backlash and concerns that have reached Canadian broadcasters, Baton Rouge televangelist Jimmy Swaggart said Tuesday he regrets telling his congregation at a recent televised worship service that if a gay man ever looks at him romantically, “I’m going to kill him and tell God he died.”
“It was a tongue-in-cheek statement best left unsaid. I won’t make it anymore,” Swaggart said in an interview Tuesday.
A Toronto television station’s broadcast of the service produced a complaint before the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, a private, self-regulating industry group that enforces broadcast standards, said Ann Mainville-Neeson, the group’s executive director.
Audio clips purporting to be of the Sept. 12 Swaggart service have begun circulating on gay-oriented Web sites.
“I’ve never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry,” Swaggart says to audience laughter on one Internet link. “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 adds, to more laughter and applause.
Swaggart said Tuesday he was talking too loosely about killing, using it casually as a figure of speech. “I’ve said it about other people, including other preachers,” he said.
Gay advocacy groups say such language encourages violence against gay men and lesbians.
Swaggart said he did not see his remarks in that light. “Good gracious alive, it would be a long stretch of the imagination to come up with that,” he said.
Even so, he said, “I was unwise in making the statement. All of us have made statements we wish we hadn’t made. That was one for me.”
What You Can Do From Here
|
Read More Articles On These Topics
Share, Blog About, Bookmark, or Email This Article
Subscribe
Read Another Article
Previous entry: Ex-Worker Accusing TBN Pastor Says He Had Sex to Keep His Job Next entry: Germany bans Islamic conference
RNB Homepage with latest headlinesFind Related Information
Find Related Books
|
Share This Article
To share this page simply copy and paste one of these URL's:
