From Falwell to Swaggart to Bryant a certain stripe of Organized Religion has equated Christianity with homophobia. Murf needed a foil to represent this view.
We see a lot of Hasenpflug over the next thousand strips. He comes to embody every scheme the Religious Right has to throw at us. And when Swaggart gets caught in a scandal, Hasenpflug gets caught in a worse one.
Don't mistake this for anti-Christian. Hasenpflug the Cartoon Character never mentions Jesus; he has lost track of agape, caritas, Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi and all the rest.
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