A concerned mother didn’t know what to do after her son came out as gay and an atheist (talk about a doubly whammy!), so she turned to 700 Club’s resident dinosaur Pat Robertson for help.
“Dear Pat,” the mother wrote, “Not so long ago my son ‘came out of the closet’ and a year later he told us he was becoming an atheist. I want him to follow the path of Christ, but it’s so hard. What should I do?!”
Without missing a beat, Robertson began vomiting his opinion on the matter, comparing the woman’s son to a drug addict and calling her his “enabler.”
“You cannot go along and say, ‘I agree with your lifestyle,’” Robertson instructed. “So don’t be an enabler, any more if he’s a drug addict. You don’t enable people to continue in their drug habits.”
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Xzamilio
I won’t make a habit of tagging my own blog posts here, but this story struck a cord with me, namely because it was the reason I started blogging in the first place, my being an atheist and gay.
http://shallowvoices.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-trifecta-black-atheist-and-gay.html
Amazingly, people will think most of us become atheists because we are gay, and truthfully, that may be the case with some. But, I believed in a god and was gay the whole time… it was educating myself on the topic and researching the bible that made the wall come down, and none of it made sense anymore.
NoCagada
And all these religious old hateful fucks should be treated to starring in an ISIS video.
Giancarlo85
Pat Robertson is still alive? What a shock. What a douchebag… and shouldn’t be given any attention. If you give old Patsy attention he gets what he wants.
Realitycheck
Why is n’t he dead yet?? LOL
polarisfashion
What a dick, I wish he would keep his ignorant thoughts to himself.
Glücklich
@ Giancarlo85 Agreed. Pay no attention as it will only encourage him.
A while ago Mike Huckabee likened being gay to drinking and cussing. My immediate thought was, “Oh. OK. So it’s no big deal, then.” I don’t even have that kind of response to this enabling business, it’s so dumb, and I have nothing but disdain for ol’ Pattycakes. I’m actually glad the post has so far garnered so few comments because it points out how irrelevant Pat Robertson is.
jwtraveler
What do you expect? Pat should be treated like a corpse. He will be soon.
Ridpathos
I was raised Christian and fed all that crock from my preacher father and fundamentalist mother. I became atheist after coming out as gay, yes, partially because I did grow up experiencing life as a gay person and learning about how Christians and the Bible think of us. I held a gut feeling deep down that if this was what Christianity is, that’s wrong. But there were other things that also led me to where I am, such as a deep study of other cultures, religion, and world history. Analyzing exactly how weak the argument of Christianity is (there is one god and it happens to be ours, even though we aren’t the only nor the first religion and most of our stories are borrowed from other cultures). And finally getting a holistic view of how weak religions are in general and the purpose for which they were created (to explain an inexplicable and scary world and our place in it).
transiteer
Good Ol’ Chrisitan Pat. Spewing the usual hatreds in the guise of Christian Charity and Compassion. Fake religion with a fake preacher. He’s only really pissed off because he IS old and bitter, and because real, genuine charitable and compassion people DO NOT send this ancient con-man any $.
Paul Nadolski
I’m gay because I was born gay.
I’m an atheist because I figured out the Bible is mostly a work of fiction.
If that makes me like a drug addict, so be it. But I feel that, having liberated myself from a bunch of bullshit that serves one purpose, to make me feel bad about myself, I’m actually a lot better off!
Atrius
Screw that senile old bastard.
damon459
With Pat’s help another family will be destroyed, and in the name of christ even! I just love religious idiots, they just love destroying lives under the guise of their “god”. This is of course why each generation seems to see less religion, people are sick of silly rules and superstition.
mcflyer54
As long as idiots seen this senile old fool money he will continue buying TV time to spread his ignorance. Robertson is never going to die, God doesn’t want him and they Devil doesn’t want the competition.
AxelDC
It’s very Orwellian that he thinks people should be locked up and rehabilitated for their religious beliefs.
Tereasa
When is this antiquated idiot going to die and leave people along?
tusgold
Pat is a bag of bullshit he sold out CBN for 100’s of millions. So much forr his commitment to spreading the word. He was enamoured about all the money he’s make off of Christian Broadcat Network and sold it to either ABC or Disney. He’s your typical tele-evanglist in it foor the money and now he just pontificates and makes the world a very ugly place.
russellhm
I must wonder how many parents follow Robertson’s inept, mistaken, demeaning and stupid advice to attempt to change their children? I also wonder how many young suicides result from such demeaning claptrap, that the reverend espouses. Is it still the 700 Club but should now be the Zero Club as the ole bugger has nothing valuable or truthful to say. I, too, and gay–and an atheist. No cause/effect here as I was gay long before I could no longer buy the mythology of Christianity (or any religion). I see an ad below my comment for Liberty University Online, the alleged university founded by Jerry Falwell and now run by his son. Ted Cruz, the Texas idiot, announced his candidacy, boasting about the enormous turnout; some days later, we learn that all some 3,000 students were required to attend. Spontaneous? Nope, dictatorial hogwash. All the mother needs to do is give up her selfish desire to have sonny boy follow Christ’s path–as though he worked for MapQuest?–and say, “Darling, whoever you are and whatever you believe or don’t believe is just fine with me. Know that I love you and want what will make you safe and happy.”