Pat Robertson on LGBT Hate Crimes Legislation: 'The Noose Has Tightened Around the Necks of Christians'

Delibrately spreading misinformation, Christian extremist Pat Robertson discussed the Matthew Shepard & James Byrd, Jr. Hates Crimes Prevention Bill on The 700 Club, saying "The noose has tightened around the necks of Christians to keep them from speaking out on certain moral issues."

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Pat Robertson: Gays 'Want to Destroy Marriage'

 

On yesterday's edition of The 700 Club, Pat Robertson made the absurd claim that gays want to destroy marriage:

"I don't really believe that homosexuals want to get married. What they want to do is destroy marriage and some of the other things that we have in our society. There's been an outright campaign against the traditional moral values that have grown up in a Judeo-Christian culture. And they don't want any, any hindrance to their particular lifestyle or their particular way of having sex..."

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Catholic League's Bill Donohue: Gay Adoption 'Against Nature'

Bill Donohue, of the Catholic League (famously described by Kathy Griffin as one man in a room with a computer) appeared on The 700 Club yesterday to talk with Pat Robertson about his new book, Secular Sabotage, and denied that the Catholic Church has a pedophile problem. Donohue claimed that it's not a pedophile problem, it's a homosexual problem.

Donohue also rants about attacks on the Catholic Church by governments requiring them to allow gays to adopt children.

"We're not going to allow gay people to adopt children. That's against nature. It's against nature's God! But they won't stop!"

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Robertson: USA Heads for 'Garbage Heap of History' Over Gay Rights

Pat Robertson proves once again what a wonderful spokesperson he is for the Bigoted Uninformed Christian community:

"A month to celebrate gay, lesbian, transgender pride month? Somebody's proud of being transgendered? It's a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of our population. One to two percent has this particular orientation, yet they dominate the news. It's just smiply amazing. Any country that openly embraces homosexuality throughout the history of mankind has gone down into ruin. Thats history. Thats the historical record. Whatever nation embraces this so-called lifestyle, it ends up in the garbage heap of history. So, lets watch what happens."

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Pat Robertson: Kids Become Gay Because of Sexual Abuse from Men

On today's The 700 Club, Pat Robertson was asked what to do if your son tells you he's gay:

"I am not at all persuaded that so-called homosexuals are homosexuals because of biological problems. There may be a very few, but there are so many that have been made homosexuals because of a coach or a guidance counselor or some other male figure who has abused them and they think there's something wrong with their sexuality. So you need to get deep into why he is what he is, instead of just saying, 'Well, he's a homosexual so how do I handle him, and how do I be Christian?' Well, I think you ought to tell him, 'Listen, son, you know, here's what the Bible says about this, and it's called an abomination before God, so I've got to tell you the truth because I love you'...I mean, if somebody's on their way to hell, they'll -- I mean, you've got to love them to rescue them."

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Dan Savage says it's not an insult to gays, it's an insult to Christians: "If you buy into Robertson's theories on origins of homosexuality then you have to embrace a highly unflattering picture of Christian America. If Pat is right then all those fundamentalist Christian churches, schools, counseling programs, and summer camps—the whole parallel Christian universe—are teaming with sexual predators."

(via media matters)