In a Tuesday interview with comedian Jeff Foxworthy, CNN's Piers
Morgan presented the half-baked idea of treating the Bible as
"evolutionary" and asked if being Christian "has become almost a bad
word" in America. Of course, he pointed the finger specifically at
Christians who are Republicans.
"Do you feel that being Christian has become almost a bad word in a
country that's still predominantly Christian?" Morgan asked after
noting "issues where the Christian element of the Republican party get
a good kicking, because either they said something silly or
inflammatory or whatever it may be." [Video below the break.]
"How literally should people take the Bible? And should the Bible
be an evolutionary thing, rather like the Constitution was amended a
few times?" Morgan ludicrously asked.
He continued taking conservative names as he lashed out at Kirk
Cameron's "inflammatory" opposition to same-sex marriage. "But it was
the way he talked about homosexuality, it was the way he talked about
it, as if it was the end of the world as we know it, an abomination,"
Morgan explained, adding that it "grates with people in modern America."
A transcript of the segment, which aired on Piers Morgan Tonight on August 22 at , is as follows:
PIERS MORGAN: Here's the thing, I'm a Christian,
you're a Christian. But I spent the last 18 months at CNN, because of
the Republican race to be nominee primarily, dealing with a lot of
issues where the Christian element of the Republican party get a good
kicking, because either they said something silly or inflammatory or
whatever it may be. As a Christian in America, a high-profile one, how
do you feel about that? Do you feel that being Christian has become
almost a bad word in a country that's still predominantly Christian?
(...)
MORGAN: Part of the problem, it seems to me, is when I've had real die
hard Christians on the show, Kirk Cameron was a good example, somebody
who is probably not a bad guy -- I don't know him, but he's probably
not a bad guy. And he had his believes. And he absolutely fundamentally
believes homosexuality is a sin, for example.
But it was the way he talked about homosexuality, it was the way he
talked about it, as if it was the end of the world as we know it, an
abomination, et cetera, et cetera. That – it's that that grates with
people in modern America, I think. It's the language deployed by some
Christians about their beliefs which are just inflammatory.
(...)
MORGAN: How literally should people take the Bible? And should the
Bible be an evolutionary thing, rather like the Constitution was
amended a few times?