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Pat Robertson Opposes Gay Marriage, Shocking No One

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Posted on Jun 30, 2011
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Would you believe Pat Robertson made a reference to the biblical cautionary tale about the city of Sodom while discussing the recent passage of legislation allowing gay marriage in New York state? And also, God’s going to destroy America on account of same. The end.  —KA

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By basho, July 14, 2011 at 12:09 am Link to this comment

‘“God” is a popularity contest.’

always has been, always will be.
my god, your god, my god says this, your god says that ...let’s go to war about it.

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By Ehrenstein, July 10, 2011 at 1:58 pm Link to this comment

The only thing to remember is your claim that I’m part of a “diseased herd.”

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By Lew Ciefer, July 10, 2011 at 11:25 am Link to this comment

@ Ehrenstein, July 5 at 12:53 pm

“I’ve been assured that the number of believers proves that there is a God”

That’s all it takes? “God” is a popularity contest.

FUCKING PATHETIC!!!!!!!

The only thing “pathetic” is how everything went over your head. I’ll have to remember the KISS priciple next time.

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By Ehrenstein, July 5, 2011 at 11:53 am Link to this comment

“I’ve been assured that the number of believers proves that there is a God”

That’s all it takes? “God” is a popularity contest.

FUCKING PATHETIC!!!!!!!

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By Lew Ciefer, July 5, 2011 at 11:45 am Link to this comment

@Ehrenstein, July 5 at 8:19
Hew Lew, Brandon McKinerny is about to go on trail for killing Lawrence King—a gay kid who made a pass at him.

Shouldn’t you be rushing down to court to cheer Brandon on?

Is that all you’ve got, an impotent attempt to associate me with an alleged murderer? It’s not me or individuals like me that you need concern yourself with.

I remember getting slapped for making passes at girls when we were teenagers making out. Murder is extreme.

This is the first I’ve heard about the aforementioned case. Perhaps the accused is a mental case. I don’t know. You’re attempting to counter with an isolated case of homicide. Making a pass is not what I have in mind when I say ‘in-your-face’ homosexuality and I think you know that but you wanted to take a shot at me.

The rest of the world is not as liberal with respect to homosexuality as we here in the West. If Westerners—who’ve been exposed to liberal Western attitudes all of their lives—are problematic what’s life going to be like as more emigrants from Asian, Middle Eastern and African continent Islamic nations, societies, and cultures continue to pour in?

As a Christian-Jew-Muslim-Hindu-Buddhist-New Age non-believer I’m constantly reminded, by those more religiously fanatical than I am, how many ‘believers’ there are in the world. It’s a very large number. Supposedly, the adherents of Islam, the Left’s new BFF, number 1.4 billion and are outnumbered only by Christians.

I’ve been assured that the number of believers proves that there is a God and since I’ve yet to read any sacred writings that speak favorably about homosexuality I find it rather mind-boggling that homosexuals would continually provoke the vast majority of humans by demanding new found ‘rights’ that are glaringly contrary to believers’ basic beliefs; especially since their sacred writings judge homosexuality and homosexuals as abominations.

An even greater perplexity to me is that most of the homosexual community is aligned, politically, with the so-called Left which—in the West—finds itself in an unholy alliance with adherents of what is unarguably the most conservative, tradition-minded, and unenlightened religion on the planet; Islam.

At some point in time, in my opinion, those two groups of evangelical fundamentalists—Muslims and the Commie/Socialist cabal—are going to clash and it isn’t going to be pretty. That’s when the homosexual community will long for the days of harmless wacky Pat and his “god’s gonna get ‘em” spiel.

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By Ehrenstein, July 5, 2011 at 7:19 am Link to this comment

“The In-Your-Face attitude of homosexuals is creating a backlash that will see them scurrying for their lives as soon as their voting block is no longer needed or seen as to insignificant to matter.”

Hew Lew, Brandon McKinerny is about to go on trail for killing Lawrence King—a gay kid who made a pass at him.

Shouldn’t you be rushing down to court to cheer Brandon on?

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By Lew Ciefer, July 4, 2011 at 11:09 am Link to this comment

Pat Robertson is an evangelical loony tunes, Homos getting married is nonsense and the demise of the United Socialist States of America will be nothing to cry about. The bloodbath to come, with or without Homos marrying, will be a long overdue culling of one very diseased herd. 

The irony here is that the only ‘right’that will be realized is the right to be left destitute after divorce lawyers pick their bones clean. It will be a beautiful thing to watch and laugh at. The cost to taxpayers with courts trying to decide who’s the girl and who’s the boy is going to be astronomical.

The In-Your-Face attitude of homosexuals is creating a backlash that will see them scurrying for their lives as soon as their voting block is no longer needed or seen as to insignificant to matter. All religions of the world—except Marxism/Socialism—and a very large majority of humans harbor a natural aversion to homosexuality and none more fiercely than the Left’s new BFF, Islam. When the divorce between the scorpion and the snake is finalized, Homos will be longing for the good old days of wacky Pat and his fairy tales of mythological Sodom and Gomorrah.

Sharia cures homosexuality as well as other diseases like feminism, women’s rights, etc.

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By ORAXX, July 4, 2011 at 6:17 am Link to this comment
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It’s not that Robertson is genuinely afraid god will destroy America, he actively hopes it will happen and thus, validate his demented ramblings.

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By SarcastiCanuck, July 4, 2011 at 6:14 am Link to this comment
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Jeeze Pat,we have had gay marriage in Canada for years now and the lord has yet to smite us…Go figure huh.Also,as a middle age heterosexual white guy,I’d rather hang out with black lesbians then your hateful ilk.You religous fanatics terrify me….

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By vinnieg, July 3, 2011 at 7:46 am Link to this comment
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Pat is a flaming, closeted homosexual. nuff said.

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By Walter, July 2, 2011 at 10:12 am Link to this comment
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Interesting… in a way he mentions, but cleverly sidesteps, the fact that Jesus never once said a single solitary word about homosexuality. If it’s so danged important, why didn’t your #1 best example ever talk about it? Stop being hypocrites and focus instead on what Jesus actually taught.

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By yrscrewed, July 2, 2011 at 9:03 am Link to this comment

Would someone put this idiot in an insane asylum with the rest of the delusional people. Please.

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By Jim Yell, July 2, 2011 at 5:31 am Link to this comment
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Is this the same Pat Robertson who had the opportunity to fight for his country in Korea, but got his daddy to remove him and his buddy from combat?

Why do people call themselves Christian and then embrace the Old Testament which frequently contradicts the teaching of Christ. Isn’t Christ the last word from God? If The Old Testament contradicts Christ than you are not a Christian if you follow the Old Testament, a fractured and dyspeptic historical narritive, by some really crazy people.

The crimes of Christianity include validating slavery as long as it was advantageous for them to do so. The crimes of Christianity is teaching women they must be submissive to abuse in marriage. The crimes of Christianity are validating Wars as long as they were seen as advantages to Christians. I would not give you 5 cents for the whole damn religion.

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By basho, July 1, 2011 at 10:36 pm Link to this comment

‘Would you believe Pat Robertson made a reference to the biblical cautionary tale about the city of Sodom while discussing the recent passage of legislation allowing gay marriage in New York state? And also, God’s going to destroy America on account of same. ‘

how about heterosexual sodomy, pat?

your god is not going to destroy america. it’s fools like you that are destroying amerisrael.

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By Benjamin Lyons, July 1, 2011 at 3:52 pm Link to this comment
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“Jesus didn’t talk about the homosexuality” he talked about business as usual
going on until god decided to destroy Sodom.

  So it’s Pat that’s putting the scape on the backs goat then?

There’s no society that has survived immortally, for rhyme or reason beyond a
minority. As a guy in 3rd class, an agrarian-peasant and a sexual non conformist
with as heavy a burden on his shoulders as any moral atrocity can weigh, I can
attest to the business as usual” of greed, envy, and ambition, but I can not atone
for “the plunders of humanity. Throw me into the volcano but it’s still going to
blow.

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By omop, July 1, 2011 at 3:42 pm Link to this comment

Pat Robertson is not the only one warning America of dire
consequences.

The following statements by Congresswoman Bachmann were made to
religious group several months ago

“I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that if the United States
fails to stand with Israel, that is the end of the United States . . .

[W]e have to show that we are inextricably entwined, that as a nation
we have been blessed because of our relationship with Israel, and if we
reject Israel, then there is a curse that comes into play.

And my husband and I are both Christians, and we believe very
strongly the verse from Genesis [Genesis 12:3], we believe very strongly
that nations also receive blessings as they bless Israel.”

Thus 300 million Americans are facing theological threats from both
theologians and politicians.

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By ChrisG, July 1, 2011 at 11:52 am Link to this comment
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This is ridiculous…
Why not just cut the the chase, get this to the US Supreme Court now? It can all be settled and save States a lot of money and grief!!

Under anti-miscegenation laws, 50 years ago, I would not have been able to marry my wife in most states!! Is history DOOMED to repeat itself into perpetuity?! All the exact same arguments were used (to no avail) to argue against interracial marriages. See Loving vs Virginia:

1959: Judge Leon M. Bazile sentanced the Lovings (a mixed race couple) to one year in prison for getting married in VA siting this rationale:
“Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.”

Since the 1967 Supreme Court decision deeming anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional, we have seen nothing but good come of it - the institution of marriage has not been destroyed and the moral fabric the country has not gone to hell in a hand basket!

In the US, under our Constitution, the 14th Amendment seems pretty clear to me:

Section 1:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

The number of people for or against doesn’t matter. (Not whatsoever - 100% pointless and irrelevant!) We are NOT a simple democracy where any majority can dominate and snuff out the voice of any minority.

What ever interpretation you spin on the bible doesn’t matter. (Not whatsoever - 100% pointless and irrelevant!) The US is NOT a theocracy where divinely guided individuals can dictate government of the people.

Get this to the US Supreme Court now so we can:
GET OVER IT…!!

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By jr., July 1, 2011 at 10:41 am Link to this comment

The christian god is one vicious predator; and they moralize it as “survival of the fittest.”

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