On his “Faith and Freedom” radio broadcast today, Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver once again claimed that the hosts of the ABC television program “The View” called for Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis to be killed for prohibiting her office from issuing marriage licenses to gay couples.
On today’s program, Staver was making the case that Davis is not a “hater” because she is a Christian and Christians are literally incapable of hating anyone. Therefore, it is Davis’ critics who are the real haters, he explained, who hate Christians because they hate Jesus.
“The hatred is coming from these individuals because of their own internal anger,” Staver said, “but they can’t be transformed by the love of Christ and we can’t hate when we have been transformed by the love of Christ. This is what John 15:18 says: ‘If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you.’ And that’s talking about Jesus Christ, the creator of the universe who died and gave himself. That he experienced a lot of hatred toward him, so much so that they wanted to brutalize him and put him up on a cross.”
“In fact,” Staver continued, “we’ve even had people say that we need to be crucified. Even on ‘The View,’ people on ‘The View’ were calling her a monster, calling for her to be killed. Even on a national television program.”
As we noted yesterday, if the host of a national morning show had actually openly called for someone to be murdered, that seems like the sort of thing that would have generated some news coverage.
UPDATE: Liberty Counsel has informed us that Staver was mistaken and has issued a correction. Here is the explanation of what happened:
Thank you for pointing out Mat Staver’s mistake in his description of ‘The View’ program on Kim Davis. Here is what happened: on Mat Staver’s September 10 appearance on The Kelly File, Megyn Kelly played Mat a montage of people saying hateful things about Kim Davis. Megyn Kelly started with a clip from ‘The View,’ which led into a clip from the HLN ‘Dr. Drew’ show, on which Mike Catherwood said, “Like Mike Huckabee says, ‘Sign me up.’ I’ll do it. I’ll go kill her. I’ll go kill her and—and whatever toothless redneck . . . .” Mat could not see the video because he was on an LTN link, and understandably thought Catherwood’s statement occurred on ‘The View.’
Here’s the Kelly File video (Catherwood’s comment is around 2:42 on the video).
Thank you for pointing out this error. We are correcting our online version of our radio program.
