Pat Robertson has made no secret of his opposition to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in the past, but the conservative evangelist went a step further on an installment of “The 700 Club” this week, suggesting a woman’s teen son might be gay as a result of being molested.
As Right Wing Watch first reported, Robertson made the eyebrow-raising remark in response to a parent, who asked him during the program what to do about her 16-year-old son who had recently come out.
“Is there a biological thing going on or has he been influenced — has a coach molested him?” Robertson asked the viewer. Of the LGBT youth community as a whole, he noted: ““They don’t know what they’re doing, they’re teenagers.”
Unfortunately, the comments should come as little surprise to anyone familiar with Robertson’s track record. The evangelist, who was named “Bigot of the Year” at Britain’s Stonewall Awards last week, made the claim that HIV-positive gays wear special rings in order to cut other individuals when shaking hands and infect them with HIV/AIDS earlier this year.
In addition, Robertson has previously claimed that LGBT nondiscrimination ordinances will put Christians in jail, and stated that gays are just straight people who have “forsaken God.”
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Pastor Worley: Gays And Lesbians Should Be Put In An Electrified Pen And Ultimately Killed Off
The pastor, identified on YouTube as Charles L. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, N.C., condemns President Obama’s much-publicized endorsement of same-sex marriage while calling for gays and lesbians to be put in an electrified pen and ultimately killed off.
“Build a great, big, large fence — 150 or 100 mile long — put all the lesbians in there,” Worley suggests in the clip, reportedly filmed on May 13. “Do the same thing for the queers and the homosexuals and have that fence electrified so they can’t get out…and you know what, in a few years, they’ll die out…do you know why? They can’t reproduce!”
Pastor Suggests Gays Should Be Prosecuted Like They Were Historically
Ron Baity, founding pastor of Winston-Salem’s Berean Baptist Church and head of the anti-marriage equality organization Return America, referred to homosexuality as “a perverted lifestyle” in a Sunday sermon before telling his congregation that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people should be prosecuted, Good as You is reporting.
“For 300 years, we had laws that would prosecute that lifestyle,” he is quoted as saying. “We’ve gone down the wrong path. We’ve become so dumb that we have accepted a lie for the truth, and we’ve…discarded the truth on the shoals of shipwreck!”
Pastor Sean Harris: Parents Should ‘Punch’ Their Effeminate Children
“So your little son starts to act a little girlish when he is four years old and instead of squashing that like a cockroach and saying, ‘Man up, son, get that dress off you and get outside and dig a ditch, because that is what boys do,’ you get out the camera and you start taking pictures of Johnny acting like a female and then you upload it to YouTube and everybody laughs about it and the next thing you know, this dude, this kid is acting out childhood fantasies that should have been squashed.”
Pastor Slams Gay Marriage, Suggests Unions Between ‘Person And A Beast’ Could Be Next
Tim Rabon, pastor at Raleigh’s Beacon Baptist Church, condemned states such as Massachusetts, Connecticut and Maryland which have already “re-defined” marriage to include lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) couples.
As heard in this recording, Rabon asked his congregation, “What is stopping them from refining marriage from a person and a beast? We’re not far from that.”
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