Robertson: God Will Destroy America Because of Gay Marriage

Once again Hampton Roads' resident bigot and village idiot Pat Robertson has shot off his mouth and made the region look like an ignorant backwater (or at least a worse one than it really is). The source of Robertson's latest bout of verbal diarrhea? The gay marriage vote in New York State late last Friday which according to the loon of Virginia Beach will cause God to destroy America just as the myth in the Bible purports that God destroyed Sodom. Robertson also repeats the Christianists' favorite lie that no nation that has accepted homosexuality has survived. As I've discussed both on this blog and on The Bilerico Project, this statement is aimed at ancient Rome - even though it was Christianity, not homosexuality, that did in the Roman Empire. Candidly, based on the Gospels, if God were to choose to destroy America, it would more likely be to punish all the modern day Pharisees like Robertson who have turned Christ's message into hate and ugliness. Right Wing Watch has details on the old bigots remarks to his Kool-Aid drinking followers on the 700 Club. Here are a video clip and some highlights:

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Some of Robertson's blather included the following:
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I think we need to remember the term sodomy came from a town known as Sodom and Sodom was destroyed by God Almighty . . . . That’s where sodomy came from, we use the term sodomy and it means Sodom. What’s it like? We’re heading that way as a nation. In history there’s never been a civilization ever in history that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity, traditional marriage, traditional child-rearing, and has survived. There isn’t one single civilization that has survived that openly embraced homosexuality. So you say, “what’s going to happen to America?” Well if history is any guide, the same thing’s going to happen to us.
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Robertson, of course, wasn't alone in spewing anti-gay batshitery. Ted Beahr of the Christian Film and Television Commission wants New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and state legislators who backed marriage equality to be “subject to indictment, trial and just punishment.” And the credential free Linda Harvey was also in full anti-gay rant.