Pat Robertson: Gay Marriage Will Result in Polygamy, Bestiality, Child Molestation, and Pedophilia

UPDATED: Here's some of Pat's rant via Towleroad:

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"We haven’t taken this to its ultimate conclusion. You got polygamy out there. How can we rule that polygamy is illegal when you say that homosexual marriage is legal. What is it about polygamy that’s different? Well, polygamy was outlawed because it was considered immoral according to biblical standards. But if we take biblical standards away in homosexuality, what about the other? And what about bestiality and ultimately what about child molestation and pedophilia? How can we criminalize these things and at the same time have constitutional amendments allowing same-sex marriage among homosexuals. You mark my words, this is just the beginning in a long downward slide in relation to all the things that we consider to be abhorrent."

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Hmm, if we are talking about "Biblical standards" Pat, what happened to love of neighbor, not bearing false witness, not promoting hate, etc>?

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Pat Robertson, one of this area's most delusional Christianist fruitcakes and perennial embarrassments has shot gone off his mouth again. (The photo is the one that motivated to expel a student from third rate Regent Law School some time back when the student used the picture on his web page. Pat can dish it out but he can't take it himself.) In any event, this time brother Pat is spouting off about gay marriage and the parade of horrors that he says it portends. According to Mr. "I'd like to blow up the United Nations Robertson," if gay marriage is allowed, the gates will be thrown open for the legalization of polygamy, bestiality, child molestation, pedophilia.

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Why anyone one who is not certifiably deranged listens to this man who has made a fortune peddling snake oil to the gullible is baffling. For that matter, I find it equally baffling as to why the Norfolk Airport Authority allows Pat's Regent University to place large paid murals in the Norfolk airport concourse as if they are seeking to cause anyone progressive coming to the area to turn around and get right back on the plane that brought them to the area. But we digress. Media Matters has Pat in full homophobic rant here. This is the clip of his rant:
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The GOP's Problem With GOD

O-M-G!! Kathleen Parker is amazing. After she had the courage and insight to flat out call out McCain and say that Bible Spice Palin was unfit to be the VP candidate, she was labeled a traitor by Republicans and apparently received all kinds of horrid abuse from the self-styled "godly Christian" set. Now Parker has taken a brick bat to her detractors and called out the harsh truth about the GOP and its real problem: the Christianists and whacked out religious fanatics who now comprise the party's base. They drive more people from the GOP with every passing day and are particularly unpopular with younger voters. I suspect that these folks will now be calling for Parker to be assassinated or burned at the stake. She speaks the truth and the question is whether there are any rational folks still left in the party to seek to recapture it from the nutcases. Here are highlights from her column in the Washington Post:

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As Republicans sort out the reasons for their defeat, they likely will overlook or dismiss the gorilla in the pulpit. Three little letters, great big problem: G-O-D. I'm bathing in holy water as I type. To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn't soon cometh.

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Simply put: Armband religion is killing the Republican Party. And, the truth -- as long as we're setting ourselves free -- is that if one were to eavesdrop on private conversations among the party intelligentsia, one would hear precisely that. The choir has become absurdly off-key, and many Republicans know it. But they need those votes! So it has been for the Grand Old Party since the 1980s or so, as it has become increasingly beholden to an element that used to be relegated to wooden crates on street corners.

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[T]he GOP has surrendered its high ground to its lowest brows. In the process, the party has alienated its non-base constituents, including other people of faith (those who prefer a more private approach to worship), as well as secularists and conservative-leaning Democrats who otherwise might be tempted to cross the aisle.

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Religious conservatives become defensive at any suggestion that they've had something to do with the GOP's erosion. And, though the recent Democratic sweep can be attributed in large part to a referendum on Bush and the failing economy, three long-term trends identified by Emory University's Alan Abramowitz have been devastating to the Republican Party: increasing racial diversity, declining marriage rates and changes in religious beliefs.

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[L]ike it or not, we are a diverse nation, no longer predominantly white and Christian. The change Barack Obama promised has already occurred, which is why he won. Among Jewish voters, 78 percent went for Obama. Sixty-six percent of under-30 voters did likewise. Forty-five percent of voters ages 18-29 are Democrats compared to just 26 percent Republican; in 2000, party affiliation was split almost evenly.

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Given those facts, the future of the GOP looks dim and dimmer if it stays the present course. Either the Republican Party needs a new base -- or the nation may need a new party.