Pat Robertson finally broke his silence about the Pulse shooting, despite no one asking him. Previously, a satirical fake-news site had posted a story claiming Robertson said the Orlando shooting was punishment for marriage equality, although it was quickly proven false by Snopes. His actual statement, unfortunately, came out just as bad.
Robertson is clearly still stinging from the spanking handed down by the Supreme Court with their ruling on marriage equality. Not one to take defeat quietly, and of course never one to care about details, Robertson has once again come out swinging against liberals, homosexuals, Muslims, and pretty much anyone else he doesn’t like. In particular he grouped all Muslims them together with the shooter, because apparently all Muslims support that guy’s beliefs.
Granted, Robertson points out the (unfortunately true) fact that many predominantly Muslim countries still enforce laws against same-sex relations, but he then makes the jump to claim executing LGBT people “is a religious belief [of Muslims] … deeply ingrained in the people.” He is a master at the bait-and-switch: start with a little fact, and then add a bunch of hogwash behind it and fool people into thinking all of it is true.
Robertson has decided “The Left” favors two groups: The Muslims, and The Homosexuals. Supposedly with its two favorite groups not getting along, The Left is experiencing a crisis of conviction. The Muslims, well just one but all of them support the idea, murdered some Homosexuals, and now The Liberals have find a way to explain away this problem. Therefore, he believes the Orlando tragedy hurt the liberal agenda, and Robertson is licking his lips as he waits to watch The Left’s empire crumble. Robertson tell his audience that “The Left is having a dilemma of major proportions, and I think for those of us who disagree with some of their policies, the best thing to do is to sit on the sidelines and let them kill themselves.”
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It is of course depressingly ironic to watch Robertson attempt to prove Muslims are to be feared because they are all extremists, while he is preaching an extremist view of Christianity. He didn’t endorse killing anyone directly, but he nonetheless suggests it is fine if they somehow all just, whoopsie, make each other be dead. When are the actors in Modern Family going to tell their bosses at ABC (which owns Freeform, the network that broadcasts Robertson’s The 700 Club) that the network needs to stop broadcasting hate speech? Pontificating is one thing, but now he’s talking about people deserving to die.
Most of Robertson’s other comments throughout the show are a mix of rambling nonsense and paranoia. He seems to have morphed into the crazy elderly uncle who spends all of Thanksgiving dinner talking about where Obama was really born and the existence of The Free Masons.
But if you must, witness his statement for yourself in these two clips:
1EqualityUSA
assimilation ushers in change over the generations. I disagree the hate monger.
1EqualityUSA
My brain dropped another word, sorry. I disagree with pat robertson.
arj
Oh my…..is this old goat still alive?
Chris
May his god, when they finally meet, turn out to be fabulously gay. And may that meeting be sooner rather than later.
Billy Budd
He is senile and deserves to die. Him, not us.
LubbockGayMale
Such a Christian attitude, Pat… NOT!
Tobi
I’m seriously coming around to the idea that involuntary euthanasia might not always be a bad thing.
ryuichi
I continue to be amazed that such rhetoric would be believed by so many people in this country. Perhaps Islam is not the only religion to have radical followers?
CWM85
I actually agree with him on the second video. There is a situation here with Muslims who are brought up in culture to jail or sentence gays to death and coming here where being gay is no longer illegal. And more people are being sent here from countries that are very harsh and taught via quran that gays should be killed. For first time Robertson actually spoke some truth and made sense! The mass murderer was born in american but his father is from afghanistan and said, “Homosexuals should be punished by God” so this is many enviornment many grow up in.
Daniel-Reader
“The Left”? The chief lobbyist for Saudi Arabia to the U.S. Congress is a former Republican congressman. Why doesn’t Pat talk about that?
Hussain-TheCanadian
Come on you guys, its not right to make fun of the mentally disabled.
Ruhlmann
@Hussain-TheCanadian: C’mon sometimes it is.
dean089
OK, so WHERE are the non-extremist Christians denouncing Pat Robertson? He’s been saying crap like this for decades but when do we turn on the TV and see/hear anyone saying “This is not Christianity?” Never, that’s when.
dre23222
Why do we keep letting this old piece of crap get air time to talk? The more you pay attention to ignorance their power grows. Let me fall apart or go away and never be heard of again.
GC1985
@CWM85: He hasn’t spoken the truth here because he has called for death to gays himself. You are a bit of a bird brain.
Pat Robertson is going to cause violence. And he needs to shut up. He’s going to cause further bloodshed.
joeyty
I agree with him. If I’m fighting to the death against some homophobic Muslim, I don’t want some dopey Christian butting in and trying to stop it.
GC1985
@joeyty: Oh yes, you’re truly “fighting to the death”. WHen was the last time you ever fought anything?
Please people… report bigotry and the advocacy of violence to Queerty.
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Please contact them and report JOEYTY for threatening violence against others.
gayhope1990
@GC1985:Stop whining squealer./Pat Robertson is an old fanatical christian who needs a few injections,he’s so homophobic it’s clearly a nutcase.
Giancarlo86
PROVEN LIAR >>>>>> @GC1985: <<<<<< PROVEN LIAR
GC1985
@gayhope1990: says the weasel who is deeply closeted and too afraid to come out.
@Giancarlo86: Go away fake loser! Not a proven liar at all. So what did I lie about? Fucking predator. Go back to that ch@troom.
Giancarlo86
@GC1985: You lied about being me. You lied about living in Florida. You lied about being Ruby Rue @reubenana. You lie and lie and lie.
joeyty
@GC1985: Somebody should report YOU for those stupid purple boots you wear when you’re doing that trannie hooker thing…… yet again.
Brian
Pat Robertson is correct on the politics of the Left. However, I would elaborate by saying that the Left favours feminism and multi-culturalism over the cause of male homosexual dwsire.
Male homosexual desire scares the Left because it’s a wild beast that cannot be tamed. Feminists possibly loathe male homosexual desire becaus it empowers men who would otherwise be dependent on women for sexual consent.
Sluggo2007
He should contract an extremely painful, slow moving cancer.
GC1985
@Giancarlo86: Bob.. Please stop with this fake account… Everybody knows its you.
It is hilarious. I never said I was this Reuben sandwich idiot.
I just figured it out, fake. As far as Florida, I misspoke when I said I lived there. Visit plenty as I have a relative who lives in Miami (he works for the Coast Guard). The usual trollbots went crazy and started insulting me.
So tired of the delusions some have on here.
@Brian: The political right wants to bash your head in. Look at Germany. NeoNazis always attacks gays. The left is the only reason why you have any rights.
Tobi
@GC1985: You didn’t misspoke, you’re just a pathological liar. You also seem to have a deeply disturbing interest in death and disease. I’ve just been forwarded a link to another site where you’re ranting in the comments about the victims of ebola. It’s obvious that you’re getting some kind of perverse sexual satisfaction by trolling such tragedies. You really are the epitome of disgusting. Ugh.
Billysees
@dean089:
” OK, so WHERE are the non-extremist Christians denouncing Pat Robertson? ”
The other non-extremist Christians (our friends) are smarter than you think. They are using scripture to guide their attitudes —
Don’t answer the foolish arguments of fools, or you will become as foolish as they are……Proverbs 26:4
But there’s a flip-side that applies to us here in the comment section —
Be sure to answer the foolish arguments of fools, or they will become wise in their own estimation…….Proverbs 26:5
Billysees
@GC1985:
” The left is the only reason why you have any rights. ”
True….very true….
hyhybt
@dre23222: It was a condition of the sale of “The Family Channel” back in the 90s that, no matter who owns it or what they turn it into otherwise, they MUST air his show.
MyDadPulledOut
Pat Robertson? Queerty please! You queens are embarrassing yourselves again!
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winnie
Oh yeah! Cause he thinks he and other Christians will survive the holocaust ISIS has in store. ISIS is killing Christians as well. Stupid man.
tony-e
The funny but not so funny thing is that the same network that airs this piece of crap airs shows showing just the opposite about the LGBT community. The Fosters, where a lesbian couple raises a houseful of kids, with the same issues as any straight couple raising teenagers. And last year they aired a series, right before 700 club, mind you, about a teenager and his girlfriend, both of whom have a transgendered parent