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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPat Robertson tells TV viewers gays seek to impose 'totalitarian' socialism on America
http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/pat-robertson-tells-tv-viewers-gays-seek-impose-totalitarian-socialism-america170415
The 84-year-old televangelist, speaking in defense of Indiana's controversial 'religious freedom' law, called the liberals who led the backlash against the law 'totalitarian socialists. They want the government to force everybody into their mold.'
The state's Religious Freedom Restoration Act led to a nationwide backlash because it opened the door for private businesses to legally discriminate against gay people if they cited religious beliefs.
Robertson, who has a long history of anti-gay views, doesn't get what all the fuss was about.
'Now this bunch of gays, what they have done is single out for example, there will be a city and there will be five bakeshops, four out of the five will do wedding cakes for anybody that wants them, gay, lesbian, Muslim, Hindu, anybody, theyll do cakes. One little company says, "No, were Christian, we wont do homosexual wedding cakes." So they sue that one and force that one, because the idea now is not tolerance, it is conformity, theyre going to make you go along with their lifestyle whether you like it or not.'
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)could I have eaten a piece of one by mistake?
If I did eat a piece by mistake, could it turn me gay?
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)2) You should cast demons out of secondhand clothes you buy, lest their previous owners evil infect you. After a 700 Club viewer asked if her mother was right to believe that clothes bought at a resale shop might have demons hiding in them, Robertson recommended praying over them as a precautionary measure. Hey, it aint going to hurt anything to rebuke any spirits that happened to have attached themselves to those clothes, he said, adding that witches may have cursed the secondhand clothes. While the effectiveness of physical washing of clothes can be determined by visual and olfactory assessment, its unclear how one can tell if youve prayed the demons out of your clothes. Robertson was mum on how to make this determination.
3) God punishes people for having too much education. When a viewer asked Robertson why there are more miracles in Africa than in the U.S.--mind you, no statistics were offered to support this contention--Robertson blamed the supposed overeducation of Americans. People overseas didn't go to Ivy League schools, he chuckled, unaware that 20% of Harvards students come from outside the U.S. He went on to blame skepticism and science for Gods miracle reticence, saying, We are so sophisticated, we think we've got everything figured out. We know about evolution, we know about Darwin, we know about all these things that says God isn't real, we know about all this stuff.
4) Women just discovered porn, and quite possibly sex. Robertson thought it advisable to embarrass one of his female co-hosts by asking her about Fifty Shades of Gray. Youre a sweet Christian girl. Do you see anything in porn that attracts you at all? he asked, as if there was a chance in the world she would say yes no matter how she actually felt about the situation. After she gave the obligatory denial, Robertson expressed his utter bewilderment at this new interest the female gender has in erotic materials. The thing that shocks me. We always thought this was a male thing, he said. But now it looks like 30% of women are involved in pornography. He expressed particular surprise that the author of Fifty Shades does not look like a glamour queen, as if the only thing that could possibly be more surprising than a woman showing interest in sex is an ordinary-looking woman showing interest in sex.
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10) Divorce is wrong, unless your wife gets sick. Robertson routinely reminds his viewers--such as the one he recommended move to Saudi Arabia--that divorce is against the scriptures. But he did make one exception, for a man whose wifes senility is making him lonely. I know it sounds cruel, but if hes going to do something, he should divorce her and start all over again. He added, trying to sound less awful, But to make sure she has custodial care, somebody looking after her.
Robertson framed it as an attempt to avoid the sin of adultery, but it wasnt persuasive. He has a long history of considering marriage an institution that exists so women can serve men. Within this framework, once a woman becomes unable to perform her wifely duties, booting her and getting a new one just makes sense. Telling men to make sure to provide for their abandoned wives, in this context, does little to soften the blow.
http://www.alternet.org/belief/10-craziest-things-pat-robertson-has-said
We're gonna need a bigger list...
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)Warpy
(111,467 posts)and like a lot of batshit crazy people, blames the voices in his head on god.
I'm just amazed he's got an audience of poor, ignorant, and frightened people who send him money they can't afford to in order to buy their way out of hell.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Why all of the christians I know are Just Like Jesus.
Scotch?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)Time for an exorcism.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Initech
(100,149 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)about everything is controlled by a corporation 7x24, and worst is the concentration of corporate power, of course, into the politics and elections of this country at ever expanding levels and depth, thanks to SCOTUS and Citizens United. I know I'm preaching to the choir, but just needed to say that again. How, can any call this a democracy with Citizens United.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Force everyone into their mold. Quiet the opposite, those pushing the bill is wanting to push everyone into their mold. How many laws has been passed to force the righteous wrong into their mold, none, how many has passed to force the righteous wrong way onto to the rest, several.
Guess this makes the righteous wrong 'totalitarian socialists". Go for it Pat.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)supposed persecution. It is consistently their agenda to impose their views on everyone even to the point of trying to declare the bible the law of the land.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Who let the cat out of the bag? We'd a gotten away with it too if wasn't for this meddling asshole.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)I didn't know cakes had a gender, let alone an orientation towards the same gender.
Learn something new every day, I guess.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Initech
(100,149 posts)Monk06
(7,675 posts)JanMichael
(24,901 posts)PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)An eco-friendly , feminist, gay, humanitarian, atheist, socialist.
Did I hit them all?
PR is a stain on the toilet bowl of humanity.