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John McCain rejected the endorsement of the Rev. John C. Hagee Thursday after an old sermon was unearthed in which the evangelical pastor seemed to suggest that God had created the Holocaust to drive Jews to Israel.
Mr. Hagee, who endorsed the Republican candidate in February, delivered a sermon in the late 1990s in which he appeared to explain how something good could come from a tragic event.
"A hunter is someone with a gun and he forces you. Hitler was a hunter. And the Bible says...'They shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and from the holes of the rocks,'" Mr. Hagee preached. "God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said my top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel."
The sermon was posted on Talk to Action, a blog critical of the Christian right, and later republished on the Huffington Post Web site.
"Obviously, I find these remarks and others deeply offensive and indefensible, and I repudiate them," Sen. McCain said Thursday. "I feel I must reject his endorsement."
Hopefully this will put to bed some of those conspiracy theories about why Rev Wright was exposed as a lunatic by the media.
Obviously there is no special treatment for either candidate in this regard.