Pat Robertson is one of the most appallingly ignorant people with access to broadcast media, and that's saying a lot. This one has been all over the gay blogosphere, and the more I see it, the more disgusting it is.
"Has a coach molested him"? What, every coach is Jerry Sandusky (who is straight, by the way)?
Robertson is one of the most consistently ignorant anti-gay voices around in a field that derives a major portion of its support from those credulous enough to believe what these charlatans are saying. (I have faith enough in humanity to believe that if most people are given accurate information, they'll see the light, so to speak. It's people like Robertson that shake that faith.)
As long as I'm on the topic, a nod to Rep. Karen Awana of Hawai'i, who came out with one of the most ignorant and vicious screeds on record during the debate on the now-passed-and-waiting-for-the-governor's-signature marriage bill.
It gets worse. It's long -- watch it only if your stomach can take it.
Just as a footnote, again from Hawai'i, this guy doesn't seem to be vicious so much as -- well, he's obviously not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
On today's 700 Club, televangelist Pat Robertson responded to a question from a mother who asked what she should do with her 16-year-old son who recently came out as gay.
Said Robertson:
"I think you need to counsel with him and see, you know, is there really a biological thing going on or has he been influenced, has a coach molested him?...[gay youth] don't know what they're doing, they're teenagers."
"Has a coach molested him"? What, every coach is Jerry Sandusky (who is straight, by the way)?
Robertson is one of the most consistently ignorant anti-gay voices around in a field that derives a major portion of its support from those credulous enough to believe what these charlatans are saying. (I have faith enough in humanity to believe that if most people are given accurate information, they'll see the light, so to speak. It's people like Robertson that shake that faith.)
As long as I'm on the topic, a nod to Rep. Karen Awana of Hawai'i, who came out with one of the most ignorant and vicious screeds on record during the debate on the now-passed-and-waiting-for-the-governor's-signature marriage bill.
Claiming that “civil unions and reciprocal benefits was [sic] the ‘great compromise’ just a few years ago in 2011,” Awana told her colleagues, “we were told that if we provide these options to the GLBT community, they would be satisfied. Have the people of Hawai’i not done enough? We gave you your civil unions. We gave you your reciprocal benefits.”
(Actually, Rep. Awana voted against that bill.)
It gets worse. It's long -- watch it only if your stomach can take it.
Just as a footnote, again from Hawai'i, this guy doesn't seem to be vicious so much as -- well, he's obviously not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
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