John McCain's pet preacher, John Hagee, calls the Roman Catholic Church "the great whore," and U.S. "news" media throw a snit.
Americans' usual ignorance is showing ... the English church started calling Rome "the great whore" somewhere around the time that King Henry VIII needed to dump his first wife because she failed to produce a surviving male heir. Katherine's sin: She was a human, not a cow.
By the time the Protestant movement revved up, it was a standard insult, although I doubt pious monk Martin Luther himself could utter the word "whore."
Hagee's using unimaginative, old-hat terminology.
Get over it, media. Rome did.
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