Pat Robertson has said some pretty insane things in the past, but yesterday’s revelation regarding the gay community’s secret “AIDS ring” designed to “infect people like [Pat]” was too much even for his Christian producers, who edited his insanity out of online episodes of 700 Club.
In case you missed it, Robertson responded to a caller on air yesterday who asked if it was appropriate to reveal a friends’ HIV status to her congregation.
He advised her to stay away from her friend, because “in San Francisco…some in the gay community there they want to get people so if they got the stuff they’ll have a ring, you shake hands, and the ring’s got a little thing where you cut your finger.”
Isn’t that something?
Today, Pat’s publicist released a statement saying he regrets that you misunderstood his remarks. There is still an AIDS ring, he says, but it may be outdated and you totally overreacted:
“I was asked by a viewer whether she had a right to leave her church because she had been asked to transport an elderly man who had AIDS and about whose condition she had not been informed. My advice was that the risk of contagion in those circumstances was quite low and that she should continue to attend the church and not worry about the incident.
In my own experience, our organization sponsored a meeting years ago in San Francisco where trained security officers warned me about shaking hands because, in those days, certain AIDS-infected activists were deliberately trying to infect people like me by virtue of rings which would cut fingers and transfer blood.
I regret that my remarks had been misunderstood, but this often happens because people do not listen to the context of remarks which are being said. In no wise [sic] were my remarks meant as an indictment of the homosexual community or, for that fact, to those infected with this dreadful disease.”
Right. It was the security guard’s fault.
Spike
No worries Mr. Robertson, no way no one would ever accuse you of statements that could be considered an “indictment of the homosexual community.”
Nope definitely not, never in a million years. You’ve shown nothing but christian love and non judgmental support for the homosexuals.
Now can we get back to exactly how these gay rings, worn by the homosexuals, cut fingers and transferred blood, in a non indictment of the homosexual community context, of course.
Steve Rider
This controversy has forced me to reveal my role in the development of weaponized homosexual rings.
http://alturl.com/ve6w8
boring
Pat Robertson IS right, it’s just that he got the context wrong; there IS such thing a an AIDS ring. It’s called Jm J. Bullock’s asshole.
Jared MacBride
I haven’t understood anything he’s said in the past 30 years.
Merv
This is so disappointing. Like most gay people, I was a huge Pat Robertson fan up until this latest remark, but now my faith in him is shattered.
Kangol
Those AIDS rings. You all are so clever!
arj
@boring: Oh my!
MrEguy
Somebody bring this old bastard a gin & hemlock.
Charles175
Okay, a ring that cuts the wearer to leak blood and cut the one shaking hands all in a specific spot, motion, time and all this simultaneously? He never mentions how it is put on or removed either. Horsefeathers, I say.