Pat Robertson has all the answers.
“I found a gay magazine in my son’s room. What should I do?” a concerned father recently asked the walking corpse/TV host. To which the 84-year-old replied in barely coherent terms: “Talk to him about sexuality. The chances are your son is not gay, but somebody gave him a, um, a book about it.”
But it gets better. Robertson continues: “You know, a lot of these so-called, um, gay people are, ugh, have been either attacked by, molested by some, ugh, authority figure. Or else, ugh, ugh, a magazine or something has, has confused them.”
Robertson’s advice?
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“You need to talk to him about what things are, who he is, what he is. Let him grow up and, and find out. But don’t let him be exposed to a bunch of pornographic magazines.”
Then comes the real kicker:
“Gay magazines are filled with naked pictures of naked men doing sex with each other! That’s what’s in there!”
Check out the video, obtained by Right Wing Watch, below:
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mcflyer54
If Robertson didn’t pay television stations to carry his programs (with a HUGE disclaimer) then this senile old man would be long forgotten. His advice, not restricted to gays, would simply be laughable if there still weren’t people who pay attention to him as well as send him money. At 84 his days should be numbered but I’m not sure he’ll ever die – God doesn’t want him and the a Devil doesn’t want the competition.
jwtraveler
What would you expect?
pbcerveza
a MAGAZINE? hello Pat, 1980 is calling you, try checking his tumblr account instead
Ladbrook
“Doing sex with each other”?? LOL
I have a friend who used to work for Robertson’s ministry as a fundraiser (back in the 90’s). She met him a couple of times and said he was really creepy. His eyes were glued to her chest for the duration of one roundtable meeting, almost to the point of harassment. In addition, two of Robertson’s “handlers” hit on her, one very regularly. She lasted about 6 months then left. Her words: “Running a whorehouse would have been less creepy.” I still laugh when I think of her stories about fighting off a bunch of horny, married “Christians.”
Ogre Magi
So how old was the son?
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Everytime this vile disgusting relic surfaces I say “I wish he were dead already” but then I look at him and think my wish has already been granted………..
dhmonarch89
kind of proof these questions are made up….no kids have magazines today! It’s free/easy and right there on the computer- no shame of going into a store- handing a sales clerk a magazine and running out of the store.
mcflyer54
I’d question the parenting skills of anyone who would go to Robertson for child rearing advice. Obviously the question was at least 20 years old (or just made up so Pat could talk about gays “doing sex”) because no kid today is going to waste time on a magazine when the Internet is wide open.
tdx3fan
@dhmonarch89: There should be no shame in purchasing a magazine and not all children (especially in rural communities) have internet access even in 2015. We also have no clue how old this kid is. I will still buy the occasional magazine or video just to keep stores that sell them in business.
Captain Obvious
Wow Mrs. Robertson is still alive and hating? Trying to be the next Crypt Keeper?
@mcflyer54: Ding ding ding! Buying porn is so 1995.
NoCagada
@Ladbrook: I slept with a couple “good christian men” who worked for another well-known teleevangelist…both married and both BOTTOMS!
CoachS
@Ogre Magi: 54. The son is 54 and the dad was in his 70s. That would about fit the demographic for Pat’s Playhouse… err the 700 Club. It would also explain the use of a magazine as opposed to them newfangled interwebs (which all teenagers use to look at “pictures of naked men doing sex” these days).
Clark35
Who actually buys magazines anymore?
musctop
@Clark35: Nobody–the story is a lie just like every other “question” this fraud answers.
Captain Obvious
@Clark35: I was buying them in the airport, but now a movie on the flight costs about the same amount.
enlightenone
The problem is this old prop reading from a Braille teleprompter, it’s the “dad.” Next step “Ex-Gay” Recruitment Bootycamp!
connorlarkin19
PR’s fallacy begs the question, ‘if one’s son is gay because of a prior molestation, THEN it follow that the original molester was a heterosexual. Since ‘homosexual’ orientation was not a psychological or mental ontology due to NO homosexuals according to evangelicals, it follows the primary molester was a heterosexual.
David
I remember what his advice was to a single Mom who was afraid he son might be gay. It made me realize Pat’s brain and mouth don’t have a stable internet connection.
Mom: “I think my 13 year old might be gay.”
Robertson, “You need to find him a strong male for a role model.”
AtticusBennett
dead dad, your son is gay. go to a PFLAG meeting with your wife, and learn what it means to have a gay kid from people who don’t hate their gay children.
or, take Pat’s advice and enjoy burying your son within the next 5 years.
DarSco
This man is ill. he has dementia
Clark35
@musctop: Exactly the story is made up. Nobody buys gay porn magazines anymore, and they’re not even published anymore.
Disciple
@Clark35: It is nice to have reading material on the coffee table or in the washroom plus it give you something to look forward to in snail mail. :p
tony-e
Like a lot of people on here, I still don’t get how anyone can take any of these guys seriously, let alone asking them for parenting advice. I heard that same line of crap from the time I was old enough to understand what they were talking about, about being gay meant you were probably molested as a kid. Same way they say that kids raised by same-sex parents are automatically going to be gay, or they’re going to have mental issues because they have 2 moms or 2 dads. One of my cousins, who has 2 amazing kids, just married her wife last year after being together for years. I don’t see any signs of her kids having any issues with having 2 moms. So Pat Robertson can kiss my ass
Sluggo2007
The REAL question here is who or WHAT molested Robertson to make him the way HE is?
ChuckF
Humor is a powerful weapon. We are finally able to laugh at them publicly. The more we bring their idiocy into the public forum, the more shamed they will be but that won’t stop them.
Saps48
It wasn’t necessarily a porn mag, it could have been a bar guide or a copy of Out or the Advocate…