Via Editor and Publisher, John Hagee has told the New York Times Magazine that John McCain sought out his endorsement, that his "love" of Israel is not tied to his bloody and violent view of biblical prophecy about the end-times and the Second Coming of Christ, and that his church loves gay people. The first revelation is not really news. Largely shunned by the religious right political establishment, McCain sought out Hagee -- a rising national figure due to his burgeoning organization, Christians United for Israel, that made a nice fit with McCain's foreign policy, when the anti-choice elites were still miffed about McCain-Feingold and his "agents of intolerance" remark. The two had a tete-a-tete over breakfast in San Antonio, and Hagee gave his blessing to McCain's position on Israel. As to his second statement: it's laughable. And as to the third, here's what Hagee had to say about homosexuality in his 2000 book endorsing George W. Bush for president (God's Candidate for America: Letting Your Light Shine in a Dark World, Global Evangelism Television, 2000):
