Militant Christian Rails Against ‘Effeminate’ Jesus
“He was a man’s man, but we feminized him in the church … He was a tough guy and that’s the Jesus that I want to be like. That’s the side that I want to be like,” Boykin added. “But we’ve feminized Jesus in the church and the men can’t identify with him anymore; not the kind of men that I want to hang out with, they can’t identify with this effeminate Jesus that we’ve tried to portray. He was a tough guy. He was a man’s man.”
Boykin first burst into the national spotlight in 2003, while he was serving as Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Bush Department of Defense. He courted controversy when he said that the war on terror was a religious war, and that the enemy’s God was “Satan.” Since retiring from the military, he has become an ardent right-wing Christian activist who is actively involved in fomenting Islamophobia.
Watch the video of Boykin’s speech on Jesus here, via Right-Wing Watch: