Christian conservative leader invokes Bush while saying he'd gladly murder gays

Religious right leader and televangelist Jimmy Swaggart invoked George Bush's name today, and Bush's support for the Federal Marriage Amendment, while telling his parishioners that he'd gladly murder any gay man who looked at him the wrong way. I am so kidding you not. (You can see the video here, start watching around minute 36:30 - courtesy of Atrios, Jesus' General and Hairy Fish Nuts).

This little son of a bitch said he would kill a gay man and then lie about it, saying the guy just died on his own, and his parishioners roared with approval. Then he praised God George Bush was a president willing to stand up to the gays by supporting the constitutional amendment.

I'm sorry, but in today's day and age if you go on TV and tell millions of Americans that it's ok, and downright godly, to murder gay people, and you said it while invoking the name of the president, then I think we have a problem that the Justice Department needs to investigate, and at the very least, the president needs to distance himself from this nutjob who is invoking the president's name in the same breath with murder.

As an aside, you might remember that Jimmy Swaggart is the guy who got caught hooking up with a New Orleans hooker. If you don't remember one of these great moments in TV history, click here to see Swaggart admitting he's a SINNER, and read more about Swaggart's fornication here.