Local loon and snake oil huckster Pat Robertson has once again shot off his bigoted and hate-filled mouth. This time he's denigrating gays and accusing the Democratic Party of having a "death wish" following a Party committee vote to add marriage equality to the party platform. Robertson is a long time advocate of special rights and privileges for Christianists and never misses an opportunity to stir up anti-gay animus. Meanwhile, he's laughed all the way to the bank as he continues to shake down the ignorant and simple minded for money. Right Wing Watch looks at the latest verbal diarrhea eruption form Robertson. Here are excerpts:
[T]he Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released a poll finding that more Americans favor than oppose legalizing same-sex marriage, confirming other polls which show rising support for marriage equality, and the Democratic Party is likely to endorse marriage equality in its party platform. But Pat Robertson today on the 700 Club derided the Democratic Party for having a “death wish” if they decide to back same-sex marriage since they will be “further alienating themselves from the mainstream of America.”Robertson: About 2% of the population are homosexual, 1% of the population is lesbian. That’s a tiny group and every time this initiative has been brought to the ballot where the people have a chance to vote they vote overwhelmingly in favor of traditional marriage. For the Democrats to go out on that limb, it just seems like to me that they are further alienating themselves from the mainstream of America. If that’s what they want to do, fine, but it will mean the death knell of their party, it seems like to me, and of course that’s what they’re doing but maybe they have a death wish.
Robertson not surprisingly is an advocate of the "ex-gay" myth and and has been known to repeat the false claim that gays die early because of their "unhealthy lifestyle." In my book, Robertson has a reserved seat in Hell if such a place exists
1 comment:
Don't fall out of your chair now Michael. While I frequently point out areas in which we disagree. I don't have one iota of disagreement with your report on Pat Robertson.
As far as I am concerned, if anything, you were too kind to him. The man is a bigot for sure; but here in Texas he is better described as a horse's ass.
The man is devoid of any characteristic that applies to Christians. As you imply, I often think he is nothing more than a charlatan who uses his notoriety as a scam to rake in millions of dollars from the ignorant and the bigoted.
I doubt the man actually even believes in God. I know he has never read the Bible in a thoughtful way or with an open mind. Almost every public utterance he makes is a direct contradiction to the Gospel of Christ.
Jack Scott
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