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Pat Robertson: Gay marriage is ‘the beginning in a long downward slide’ to legalized child molestation.

Yesterday, when Gov. John Baldacci (D) signed a marriage equality law, Maine became the fifth state to allow legal same-sex marriage. On the Christian Broadcasting Network today, Pat Robertson responded by claiming that the “ultimate conclusion” of legalizing same-sex marriage would be the legalization of polygamy, bestiality, child molestation and pedophilia. “You mark my words, this is just the beginning in a long downward slide in relation to all the things that we consider to be abhorrent,” said Robertson. Watch it:

Transcript:

HOST: Meanwhile, the New Hampshire legislature has also voted in favor of gay marriage, but Pat, the governor there still isn’t sure if he will approve that bill.

ROBERTSON: Lee, we haven’t taken this to its ultimate conclusion. You got polygamy out there. How can we rule that polygamy is illegal when you say that homosexual marriage is legal. What is it about polygamy that’s different? Well, polygamy was outlawed because it was considered immoral according to biblical standards. But if we take biblical standards away in homosexuality, what about the other? And what about bestiality and ultimately what about child molestation and pedophilia? How can we criminalize these things and at the same time have constitutional amendments allowing same-sex marriage among homosexuals. You mark my words, this is just the beginning in a long downward slide in relation to all the things that we consider to be abhorrent.



146 Responses to “Pat Robertson: Gay marriage is ‘the beginning in a long downward slide’ to legalized child molestation.”

  1. republicanSScareme says:

    False prophet.


  2. bonzo 1958 says:

    I see senility has finally set in.


  3. mk3872 says:

    Doesn’t legalized child molestation already exist inside the Catholic church


  4. dbadass says:

    What the fu ck is wrong with this radical cleric?


  5. Chessmaster says:

    How much do you all want to bet that Pat Robertson has some scandalous skeletons in the closet?


  6. BobbyG says:

    Inevitable Man-Dog marriage looms. Just ask former senator Sphinctorum.


  7. mk3872 says:

    So, the old bat is comparing illegal behavior (sex with or molestation of children) with homosexuality? Really? What century is this guy living in? When was homosexuality illegal in the U.S.?


  8. dixie blood says:

    Pat Robertson: Gay marriage is ‘the beginning in a long downward slide’ to legalized child molestation.

    We will never allow “legalized child molestation” you moron.

    BUT, WE WILL STOP THE ILLEGAL, CHILD MOLESTATION AND BRAIN WASHING BY THE REICHWING, SCUMBAG, CHRISTIANISTAS LIKE YOU.


  9. hormiga brava chavez says:

    Pat Robertson is a raving lunatic! He’s always spewing fear and nonsense. Stuff like this is why I don’t go to church and don’t want to be bothered with organized religion.


  10. rightwing-leftwing says:

    Religious hot buttons as usual which gets the limbic brain firing:

    Gay marriage is ‘the beginning in a long downward slide’ to legalized child molestation.


  11. Badmoodman says:

    Pat Robertson responded by claiming that the “ultimate conclusion” of legalizing same-sex marriage would be the legalization of polygamy, bestiality, child molestation and pedophilia.

    – - Don’t forget robot sex, Pat.

    But Pat may be on to something here. After all, the “ultimate conclusion” to miscegenation may be Barack Obama.


  12. Realness says:

    Well, of course we’re going to listen to Pat Robertson, with such an amazing track record! It’s like God is constantly whispering sweet nothings in his ear.

    Remember: Doomsday was coming in November, 1982.
    The Pacific Northwest Tsunami of 2006
    the mass killings from a terrorist attack in 2007

    That’s quite a CV for a prophet from God, wouldn’t you think?


  13. WaltB says:

    Pat lost his mind some time back . . . way, way back.


  14. makete says:

    Whats new, another scare tactic? Is this all they got?


  15. StratRat says:

    The American Taliban – all their words are lies. All their promises are worthless.

    Robertson seems like the guy who eyes little boys at the playground. Just sayin’.


  16. CheeseFlap says:

    Throw rock up to sky
    Dum thing keep landing on hed
    Throw rock up to sky


  17. dbadass says:

    This is about as likely as Darryl’s bs about Huckabee


  18. Snowman says:

    Ignore the hideous old gassbag.

    I really like the general aims of CAP, but sometimes I think they give too much air time to irrelevant people like this.


  19. Ape-Man says:

    I think Pat Roberts is still a bit confused. probably willfully.


  20. had enough says:

  21. raynman says:

    You know, at some point, Jesus is going to come back from his sabbatical on Betelgeuse and wonder what the hell has been going on in his name….


  22. Yankeluh says:

    I thought this guy was dead. No? Oh, I guess it is the stench he carries around with him. Fungus, mold, rotten teeth; brain must be atrophied to keep coming up with this garbage.


  23. RUCeriousMaggot! says:

    RUC says :

    He who fears, projects his fear onto the rest of humanity.

    How many times was Pat Robertson abused as a child?


  24. Vasagi says:

    Woah. Wait a second here.

    Isn’t it the Mormons who are the polygamists out in Utah or something who were getting in trouble for marrying off their 9 year olds? Isn’t it the catholic priests who are diddling little boys in the confessionals? Haven’t there been televangelist scandals recently where old guys with botox and big sunglasses have been diddling their congregation?

    It seems to me that Pat Robertson has closer ties to child molestation through his bible than the United States does through equal rights for homosexuals.


  25. herecomestheangst says:

    Two things are wrong….

    1. Polygamy is clearly a conservative bane, as the FDLS nutjobs have proven that the Mormon church has more than just a few “routine religious” leaks from their foundation. Then again, alternative lifestyles have to be a “liberal, progressive” thing because either you are with Christ in a certain way or you get hung out to dry.

    2. Gay lifestyles have been proven to be quite sedate when it comes to child upbringing. Pat is talking out of his crystal tower yet again with no facts, with his god-as-my-backyard-voice-guide crap to back him up. Can someone please do an expose on this crook an his “financial advise from the heavens”?


  26. StratRat says:

    Tracy__5 Says:

    The only one remotely serious would be the polygamy one.

    Such as the Mormon’s? And Gingrich & Guliani – both were dating other women when they were married. Now that’s fair and balanced! Palin/Plumber 2012!!!


  27. Tired Of Fighting says:

    This is what passes as “religious leadership” in this country. God help THEM!!

    RIP
    SGT Stephen R. Sherman
    C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
    KIA 3 Feb 2005
    Mosul, Iraq


  28. RollaMO says:

    He’s still alive??? I always lose on him in the “Dead or Alive” game. Gotta remember that.


  29. RUCeriousMaggot! says:

    Being totally anecdotal here, but when was the last time you heard of a gay person being arrested for child molestation?

    I hear lots of stepdads, boyfriends, uncles, and other hetero males getting nabbed, but gays, not so much (at all)…!


  30. Vasagi says:

    My above post is a bit sarcastic – my general point is that the Moral Majority ™ should clean out their own closets before inventing new skeletons to put in other peoples’.


  31. spring heeled jack says:

    Next thing you know, we’ll be legalizing torture


  32. misscoleopteramolly says:

    Oh, good Lord. These are exactly the same arguments the hysterical right gave regarding interracial marriage in the 1960’s (still illegal in many southern states until the Supreme Court ruled laws against it unconstitutional in 1967). “If we let black people marry white people, next thing you know, we’ll be allowing people to marry their dogs. And children. And their mothers. And more than one person. Etc. Etc.”

    First — all the gay marriage laws so far grant gays the right to a MONOGAMOUS marriage. Gay marriage has no more to do with polygamy than heterosexual marriage does.

    Second — gays who wish to get married in the states that allow it still have to meet the same age requirements that straights do.

    Third — most child molestation and pedophilia is still committed by people who are in heterosexual marriages (or live as celibates). If there are any gays out there molesting children, chances are their activity in this area will be the same whether they are allowed to marry somebody of the same sex or not.

    Fourth — homosexuality will always be with us whether gays are permitted to marry legally or not. It’s hard to imagine that more people will “suddenly turn gay” if gays are allowed to make legal lifetime commitments to each other.

    Fifth — gay marriage is the “beginning in a long downward slide in relation to all the things that we consider to be abhorrent”? Really? In the same way that allowing women to vote was the “beginning”? Or that an end to racial segregation was the “beginning”? Or that letting girls wear pants to school instead of making them wear dresses was the “beginning”? This dire warning about a “long downward slide” starts losing its punch after awhile.

    The only “ultimate conclusion” I see here is that Pat Robertson is full of crap.


  33. RUCeriousMaggot! says:

    StratRat Says: Palin/Plumber 2012!!!

    Methinks she’d only nominate her exorcist…


  34. neoparody says:

    don’t let the door wipe your ass on the way out, old man!


  35. Ape-Man says:

    Pat Roberts’ brain is a self serving, self satisfying construct, closed to outside interference from things like the real world. Why does he need us when he has his empire to tend to.

    …or ya, maby he’s just a latent gay.


  36. herecomestheangst says:

    Does anyone get a picture in their head that when the sun comes up, Pat gets on a post and crows and that when Pat is left all alone by his son and family for two hours, he fears they’ll never come back?


  37. RUCeriousMaggot! says:

    Pat Robertson would be better served by leg pressing a ton of his crap rather than spewing it.


  38. RUCeriousMaggot! says:

    You know MissHMolly, he does sound an awfully lot like my long dead grandfather Clarence, who insisted that open heart surgery was a sin because God gave us our only heart…

    WTF? Religion can do strange things to people…


  39. galmud says:

    Robertson: “…what about child molestation and pedophilia? How can we criminalize these things and at the same time have constitutional amendments allowing same-sex marriage among homosexuals.”

    Gee.. I dont know.. Because child molestation is sexual assault abuse and rape of a child, an adult exploiting a defenseless child while gay marriage is a union between two adults who love each other and want to spend their lives together?


  40. obama-biden2009 says:

    Isn’t that “freak show” dead? Ooops, I was thinking of that buddy of John McCain.

    God is great, what wonderful people these are. So loving, so caring, so FUKCED in the head!


  41. tuckgraph says:

    Pat should keep both hands above the podium when he talks like this.


  42. Mme. H.P. Blavatsky says:

    “Evil Preacher” could be considered an oxymoron but maybe not, as some religious sects worship the forces of evil. An Oxymoranus however, is a word that describes a greed-blinded ass wipe without as much wisdom in his teachings as to fill a thimble, as they say in Oklahoma. I know a lot of gay families who epitomize the word moral more than other straight families I know.

    That is his game. It works. There are millions of so-called faithfuls who accept every crap he doles out on a daily basis. They validate him. They give him more of their money. Perhaps his faithfuls should be asked why they believe anything he says.

    The absolute definition of an Oxymoranus.


  43. labman57 says:

    The Repubigot Party strikes again!


  44. dixie blood says:

    Pat Robertson don’t know shit about “Da Bybul” and the fact that he can’t find polygamy in there is just pure MORONIC JEBUS LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!

    Hey Pat, your moron…read Liviticus you sh|t phuck!!!

    You are an IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!


  45. LeeHope says:

    Is this man INSANE?????


  46. Little Freep Goofballs says:

    “You mark my words…”

    Pat, we’ve been marking your words for quite a while now.
    That’s why we’ve come to the conclusion that you’re certifiable.


  47. spring heeled jack says:

    Isn’t there a downward slide to child molestation at the Christian theme park in Orlando?


  48. pete says:

    It’s funny that Marion (Pat) Robertson should come up as I just saw his comments about a True Christian(TM) marrying an atheist.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zv9AgwKAE0


  49. Mugsy says:

    Because as we all know, children and horses are EXACTLY the same as a Consenting adult.


  50. StratRat says:

    RUCeriousMaggot! Says:

    StratRat Says: Palin/Plumber 2012!!!

    Methinks she’d only nominate her exorcist..,

    And then even God fearing folks wouldn’t get close to her – crazy eyes, ya know? I hear her head travels 360 degrees ’round and ’round…


  51. had enough says:

    What bothers the righty goppers the most is the fact they are losing their gay wedge issue. As the populous continues to get used to gays, in other words find out gay folk are like every one else, just what wedge issue are the fanatics going to use to get the people stirred up and distracted during election time?


  52. J. Fred Smug says:

    Yup, ‘cuz EVERYTHING is always about THE GAYS, isn’t it? What a wonderful country.


  53. MapleStreet says:

    I caught 10 minutes of the “700 Club” the other night. Used to be that Pat would talk on religious matters. But, at least from my sampling, all he did was bloviate on politics.

    Oh, and in answer to above comments, in many states, homosexual action IS still illegal – such as under anti-sodomy laws which define sodomy as any sexual contact other than man-woman front to front.


  54. pete says:

    I didn’t even think our pet trolls would be stupid enough to defend Marion. With the possible exception of Daryll.


  55. obama-biden2009 says:

    the legalization of polygamy, bestiality, child molestation and pedophilia.

    I don’t know, it kind of sounds like Pat Robertson was “hot” about those topics too, maybe he kinda likes that stuff and hoping legalization is in order? He had a “glimmer” in his eyes when he mentioned child abuse??

    You know, the loudest ones who claim to be against it are normally the ones who be doin it? Look at the Republicans, all freaks when it comes to sex but that’s their business right?


  56. MapleStreet says:

    The majority of child molestation is heterosexual.

    So why not outlaw heterosexuality.


  57. StratRat says:

    Tracy__5 Says:

    “Such as the Mormon’s?”

    I think it would be wrong to deny legality of another group’s definition of marriage.

    But that is not what Robertson is saying. HIS definition of marriage is paramount – not yours and not mine. Robertson decides (hmmm, another decider>) what HE feels is proper according to Jeebus. Surely the Mormons have other lives to disrupt, no? Sh!t, they even baptised Obama’s dead mother. Mormons have no place for judgement upon others.


  58. pete says:

    had enough Says:
    “…just what wedge issue are the fanatics going to use to get the people stirred up and distracted during election time?”

    That’s the sinister power of the “wedge”. It never dies it just morphs from resistance to condemnation. Heck! They can just keep fighting the “evilution” thing.


  59. spring heeled jack says:

    So letting a gay man visit his dying partner in the hospital is tantamount to horsefcuking?


  60. Purple State says:

    Pat Robertson: “The proof is in my preaching.”


  61. kasinca says:

    This man started the slow decline of the GOP. Barry Goldwater warned them that the religious right would destroy the party. They didn’t do it by themselves, the Ku Klux Klan helped.


  62. LividLib says:

    “Pat Robertson responded by claiming that the “ultimate conclusion” of legalizing same-sex marriage would be the legalization of polygamy, bestiality, child molestation and pedophilia.”

    Wait a minute! Bestiality is illegal? As in sheep?
    Dammit!


  63. flight says:

    What I find abhorrent is the Right wings preoccupation with deviant sexual behavior. What are these wing nuts doing in their private time?


  64. sscncturn64 says:

    Pat is one sick SOB, How many priests and ministers have been arrested and sued over the years for molesting children.He needs to clean his own house and stop making up such unbelievable crap.


  65. wiley says:

    Why my links no work?


  66. Trittydi says:

    Legalized Child molestation? That’s too stupid for words. Does he really think people will buy that crap?

    Does god know Robertson is insane?

    On the upside – the more ridiculous Robertson’s comments – the more obvious his homophobia and stupidity will be to those who listen to him.
    *



  67. Great Frybread King says:

    First, Mr. False Prophet, there is no “gay marriage” or “traditional marriage.” There’s just “marriage” between gay or straight actors.

    Second, how does marriage between homosexuals endanger marragie between heterosexuals and bring about child molestation? Have any data or studies on this?

    How about we heteros focus on our own damn problems when it comes to marraige — like domestic abuse, immaturity, infidelity, etc.


  68. Hoodathunktick says:

    They just keep coming out with these dire predictions of calamity. Freeing the slaves, giving women the right to vote, equal rights…all of them were going to destroy the world as we know it and so many more.

    You would think somebody would look at the track record and think, hmmmm. Like maybe these yahoos have never known what they were talking about.


  69. MrWombat says:

    Pat wants your children.


  70. fletc3her says:

    This is called projection.


  71. Daddy-O says:

    “… the legalization of polygamy, bestiality, child molestation and pedophilia. You mark my words…”

    His fondest wishes come true! His deepest, darkest fantasies, all coming soon.

    No wonder he’s so agitated!


  72. kcdrew says:

    Fantastic link, Wiley! Thanks!

    Meantime, Pat Robertson’s just an old fool, literally. Sad.

    Mo Rage
    http://www.moravings.blogspot.com


  73. spring heeled jack says:

    God needs a new agent.


  74. barfly says:

    Not any more that any other group although if you are going to allow gay marriage you almost certainly have to allow polygamy.

    And polyandry. They always forget about polyandry.


  75. Daddy-O says:

    Anyone foolish enough to make fun of Pat Robertson will feel the mighty wrath of his pecs!

    Er, quads? Thighs?


  76. Daddy-O says:

    barfly sed:

    “And polyandry. They always forget about polyandry.”

    Is that when more than one person does your wash?


  77. barfly says:

    Pat Robertson: Gay marriage is ‘the beginning in a long downward slide’ to legalized child molestation.

    From the true believer who said nothing about the thousands of Iraqi children who were slaughtered since the invasion. If there is a God, Pat’s ass is in the fire.


  78. kernel85 says:

    I’m afraid that Rev. Robertson is batpoop crazy, but hey, maybe he knows more about the subject than we do. Bestiality, that is.


  79. barfly says:

    Is that when more than one person does your wash?

    Two guys trying to wash your clothes?

    I smell catastrophe brewing.


  80. StratRat says:

    Tracy__5 Says:

    “Robertson decides (hmmm, another decider>) what HE feels is proper according to Jeebus.”

    He’s pretty much wrong.

    Well at least we agree on this point.

    And what the heck is polyandry? Drying mulitple things at the same time? Religion is sooo confusing.


  81. pete says:

    Tracy__5 Says
    Not any more that any other group although if you are going to allow gay marriage you almost certainly have to allow polygamy.

    Why? And you seem to be confusing polygamy and bigamy.


  82. barfly says:

    Polyandry is more than one husband. Polygamy is more than one wife.


  83. Buckie Boy says:

    “the legalization of polygamy, bestiality, child molestation and pedophilia.”

    Well then, I guess we won’t have as many conservative perverts in jail for these crimes, would we…

    …Rush goes off shore for his little vigra underage prostitute thrills, now he can just stay home.


  84. Bilbo Hussein Baggins says:

    I wonder if Pat Robertson knows that most child molesters are straight men, most of whom are married.


  85. Bilbo Hussein Baggins says:

    Tracy__5 Says:
    The only one remotely serious would be the polygamy one.

    And it is already happening albeit not legally.

    Overall in Utah today, those living in polygamist families number about 40,000 people, or about 2 percent of the population[14]. Polygamists are difficult to prosecute because many only seek marriage licenses for their first marriage, while the other marriages are secretly conducted in private ceremonies. Thereafter, secondary wives attempt to be seen in public as single women with children.[15]

    Also, I really don’t have a problem with polygamy as long as it is between consenting adults, but NOT with old men taking on 12 year old girls as another wife.


  86. joe cantwell says:

    from the time article on the shrinking republican party:

    Hispanics, Asians and blacks are on track to be the majority in three decades; metropolitan voters and young voters who skew Democratic are also on the rise. This is why Rogers recently decided to quit being a talking head: “I had a meeting with myself, and I said, Do we really need more white lobbyists with gray hair on TV?” But it’s not clear that more diverse spokesmen or better tweets can woo a new generation to the GOP; support for gay rights is soaring, and polls show that voters prefer Democratic approaches to health care, education and the economy. “The outlook for Republicans is even worse than people think,” says Ruy Teixeira, author of The Emerging Democratic Majority. “Their biggest problem is that they really believe what they believe.”

    ***
    devastating.

    oh well,

    maybe pat roberston can lead them

    through the wilderness for forty years.

    :)


  87. realpatriot says:

    May Pat Robertson rest in peace…soon.


  88. Xisithrus says:

    The John Jay Report commissioned by the U.S. Conference of

    Catholic Bishops was based on surveys completed by the Roman Catholic dioceses in the United States. The surveys provided information from diocesan files on each priest accused of sexual abuse and on each of the priest’s victims. That information was filtered, so that the research team did not have access to the names of the accused priests or the dioceses where they worked. The report presented aggregate findings. The dioceses were encouraged to issue reports of their own based on the surveys that they had completed. The Report found accusations against 4,392 priests in the USA, about 4% of all priests.


  89. Winski says:

    WHY is anyone paying any attention to this lunatic??

    He’s been discredited so many times over the last 20 years and has so many battle-lost scares on him I’m amazed he can look in the mirrors??

    This man belongs in Tulsa as a helper holding up the praying hands at the entrance to god college where the next tornado can just take him away !

    pleazzzzzz….


  90. celtic cynic says:

    “On the Christian Broadcasting Network today, Pat Robertson responded by claiming that the “ultimate conclusion” of legalizing same-sex marriage would be the legalization of polygamy, bestiality, child molestation and pedophilia. “You mark my words, this is just the beginning in a long downward slide in relation to all the things that we consider to be abhorrent,” said Robertson.”

    That means that robertson and his corrupt friends will be so happy – now that it’s legal.


  91. grf67 says:

    Robertson is one very sick man.


  92. pastcaring says:

    What a sanctimonious B@stard…Hey evil uncle chuckles, did you loose sight of your own sin or did you forget about your deal with Charles Taylor ya bastad?!

    In 1999, Taylor signed a mineral development agreement with Freedom Gold Ltd., a for-profit company chartered in the Cayman Islands, granting it exploration and mining rights in the Bukon Jedeh region of southeastern Liberia, which is believed to have substantial gold reserves. Robertson is the company’s president and sole director. If and when Freedom Gold begins to turn a profit, the Liberian government is guaranteed a 10 percent equity interest in the company.

    Source


  93. Burkhart21 says:

    Pat Robertson says the following, “Well, polygamy was outlawed because it was considered immoral according to biblical standards.” HAS PAT ROBERTSON EVEN READ THE BIBLE???
    I’m not for Polygamy but I also not for the Bible being misused to say things it doesn’t.

    There’s a lot of Biblical figures that had multiple wives. Take David for example:

    From the website: BiblicalPolygamy.com
    Sometimes, people are indeed honest enough to admit that the Bible really does not prohibit polygamy (polygyny). However, as a hedge against that admission, such ones may then resort to saying one of the following assertions:

    “Yes, but God never condoned polygamy.”
    “Yes, God allowed it, but He was against polygamy.”
    “Polygamy was only man’s idea, not God’s”.
    “Yes, but God never approved of polygamy.”

    The passage involving 2 Samuel 12:8 rather clearly reveals otherwise.

    “And I gave thee thy master’s house, and thy master’s wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.”
    2 Samuel 12:8.

    The context of the verse is that of God, speaking through a prophet (Nathan), calling out David for David’s sin of taking another man’s wife (Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite), which is adultery indeed, and for setting up the death of Uriah the Hittite to try to hide David’s sin.

    Also, at the point in time of this situation, David had already been married to at least seven known-named wives. (1_Samuel 18:27, 25:42-43, 2_Samuel 3:2-5.)

    But, in this verse 12 (above), God was not condemning David for all his wives! In fact, this verse 12 shows God Himself actually saying that HE was the One Who had GIVEN David His wives.

    If God was against David’s polygamy, He certainly would not have said that He had GIVEN David his wives.

    But the LORD did not stop there. That verse 12 shows that the Lord took it even one step further than that! The LORD God even went on further to say that if David had wanted more wives, the Lord Himself said that He would have given David even more!

    It was only because David had sinned, in committing adultery by taking another man’s wife, and then causing that man’s death to try to hide David’s sin, that the Lord was calling him out through the prophet Nathan. There was no sin in the polygamy at all.

    This is later confirmed that this was the only matter by 1 Kings 15:5, which says the following:

    “Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. ”
    1 Kings 15:5.

    Two verses before that, in 1 Kings 15:3, the Bible says that David’s heart was perfect with the LORD God.

    Very clearly, therefore, what all this shows is that God is the One Who gives wives, even when more than one wife.

    This is, of course, confirmed by 1_Corinthians 7:17.

    “But as God hath distributed to every man,
    as the Lord hath called every one,
    so let him walk.
    And so ordain I in all churches.”
    1 Corinthians 7:17.

    Be it
    NO wife,
    ONE wife, or
    MORE THAN ONE wife,
    it is only has God calls and gives.

    As such, it is clear that the Bible does, in fact, explicitly show

    “Yes, God did condone polygamy.”
    “Yes, God allowed it, and He was not against polygamy.”
    “Polygamy is not a man’s idea, but God’s”.
    “Yes, God did approve of polygamy.”

    In 2 Samuel 12:8, He Himself said so!


  94. tombaker says:

    Pat better watch out, ’cause I wanna molest him.

    Kids are boring – old preacher-men, on the other hand…..


  95. pastcaring says:

    But I suppose in Patty Pats world choosing money over love would amount to “nothing more than choosing steak over apple pie in a restaurant.”

    Hypocrite. I hope there is a hell so Robertson can burn in it.


  96. rightwing-leftwing says:

    Every time a bell rings, an angle gets it wings.

    Every time a gay marries, someone dies or gets molested.


  97. Libellula saturata Annie says:

    Pat Robertson, I sincerely hope that God (if there is a god) smites your lying, ugly bigoted azz.


  98. AlexLawyer says:

    Well, Pat, hasn’t it ever occurred to you that Jesus, if not you and your ilk, would find abhorrent wars of aggression, wholesale slaughter of innocent civilians, including children, in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gaza, torture, our stinginess towards the world’s poorest, our massive military spending and our rapacious financial institutions? And while we’re at it, how about multimillionaire televangelists who support all of the above and stir hatred?


  99. glogrrl says:

    Oh, STFU, Pat. Go hang out with all the pediphiles and sexual perverts in the Republican Party and then come back and pass judgement on ordinary Americans just trying to love each other and have a life.


  100. lespool says:

    Is Pat Robertson’s libido so easily titillated that the mere thought of same sex marriage drives him mad with carnal desires for men, animals, and children?


  101. Bozo The Neocootiebug says:

    hey what gives? the bible thumper is against polygamy which is supported in the good book, also known as the word of god?


  102. dasm says:

    Pat Robertson & others like him are ignorant, lying idiots. The vast majority of child abuse victims are female, and are abused by opposite-sex (Miss California take note!) persons, usually relatives or close friends. A person who sexually abuses a child is NOT gay, NOT straight– the person is a pedaphile, a category on its own, thank God. Using Robertson’s stupid “logic”, we can say the majority of child molesters are straight white males – statistics prove it. Does that work for you, Robertson?


  103. Levi the Dungbeetle says:

    Two hundred years ago, it was commonplace for adult men to marry adolescent girls. A few thousand years ago it was commonplace for Roman citizens to have adolescent boys as their consorts.

    Pat Robertson is making a moral judgement on sexuality and he does not know what the future will bring. He could be correct that in the future adult men may once again marry adolescent girls or adolescent boys but he fails to support his supposition with any rational evidence.

    Religious fundamentalists are the most dangerous people on Earth, and it doesn’t matter which religion they are from. Robertson represents Christian religious fundamentalism, and he is as great a threat to America as any Muslim cleric.


  104. PFWoody488 says:

    Pat.
    Why don’t you go talk to your vengeful imaginary sky daddy for a while.
    The grownups want to talk.


  105. Jackie Morgan says:

    I think Pat meant to say that Republicanism is the beginning in a long downward slide to legalized child molestation.

    http://www.armchairsubversive.org/


  106. cinesimon says:

    In today’s modern and slightly more progressive society(To which Pat communicates via satellite from another dimension) Polygamy isn’t wrong based on biblical standards, but because of the power issue. Such relationships are by nature emotionally abusive – and that is why they would not be legalized in today’s world. The bible has nothing to do with it.


  107. JohnnyKay says:

    Isn’t it enough the United States suffered through Falwell, the biggest closet case until Haggard threw himself out? Isn’t it enough our beloved country has been morally decimated by false religions masquerading as Christian? Isn’t it time to tell the truth, even if religions fall in the process?

    This is Pauline ‘christianity’ which has nothing to do with Jesus the Therapeutae of two thousand years ago. Nor does it have anything to do with thefact early Christian ’saints’ were gay and there was a same sex ceremony as far back as the first century AD.

    Christianity began in Egypt, not Jerusalem, and nothing about it remains in the United States, but the American Taliban headed by cretins like Robertson and the very late Jerry Falwell waiting patiently for his next companion, Pat.

    It’s time to say goodbye to these horrors and embrace functionality in the American psyche, while discarding the offal as soon as can be done.


  108. Bad Eye says:

    I wonder if Pat witnessed on TV Barbara Bush and Hillary Clinton holding hands as they walked into the White House, when Hillary visited after Bill won the ‘92 election?

    We all know that the very next day that dogs petitioned Congress for permission to marry cats.


  109. Bad Eye says:

    What does Pat say about God creating homosexual activity in the animal kingdom? I guess those animals choose to be gay.


  110. louis123 says:

    We thought Stalin, Hugo Chavez, and Castro were pretty good at getting a 90-95% approval rate. Those against Pat Robertson got a 100% approval. Not one dissenter among 115-odd listed, naturally. Amazing.!


  111. reluctant leader says:

    Empty heads who can’t think for themselves feed off of this kind of rhetoric. It makes perfect sense to them.

    I, for one, am glad buffoons like Robertson keep this garbage up. It shows the majority of us why we can’t stand the religious haters and why we reject the party that refuses to reject them.

    The odd thing about Robertson is, he believes in hell, but thinks his behavior will keep him from ending up there.


  112. Bad Eye says:

    Oh, get this: while searching CBN’s web site for contact info to send Pat an e-mail, I ran across a link entitled:

    “Bring it on: Ask Pat a question.”

    Bring it on. Indeed.


  113. Zooey says:

    I think Pat is jacking off when he speaks about bestiality.

    I find that abhorrent…


  114. mauro7inf says:

    Polygamy is immoral according to *Biblical* moral standards? WTF? *Someone* has never read the Bible! Abraham and Jacob both had children by plural women, and David had plenty of children by plenty of wives and concubines, to say nothing of EVERYONE ELSE IN THE BIBLE. Nice try, Robertson.


  115. southrnbelle says:

    Pat Robertson is an paranoid egomaniac with delusions of grandure.

    His opinion is meaningless.


  116. Max Anax junius -1 says:

    .

    CORRECTION:

    Pat Robertson is just the beginning in a long downward slide in relation to all the things that we consider to be abhorrent.

    .



  117. Max Anax junius -1 says:

    .

    GOP governor eyeing Senate run to be outed in film tomorrow
    By John Byrne
    Published: May 7, 2009

    http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/07/gop-governor-eyeing-senate-run-to-be-outed-in-film/

    “The usual suspects are all there: Craig, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, former New York mayor Ed Koch, former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey, former Rep. Ed Schrock, even dusty McCarthy relic Roy Cohn. Again, if you’re reading this review, then you’re likely no stranger to gay media, particularly gay online media (which is credited in the film as being one of the few places where these scandals are openly discussed) and none of these men is an unfamiliar candidate for speculation.”
    (continued)

    … Really Daryyl, you need to control you boyfriends much better.

    .


  118. Max Anax junius -1 says:

    .

    Polygamy…
    … Why is it that men get several wives yet the wives, one man?

    .


  119. Zooey says:

    How weird, Max. I though Gov Crist was already out.

    I guess I shouldn’t have assumed…


  120. Robt says:

    The long downward slope was ventured when evangelical pastors as Robertson took all the church donations and created GOD’s corporation. Selling God and snake oil.

    Living pretty high there aren’t you Patty?


  121. kapauldo says:

    (linkback) Believe or Doubt? Gay marriage is ‘the beginning in a long downward slide’ [VOTE] – http://www.pikk.com/1dbb7


  122. wewillsee says:

    Wow question someone morality, and look at the accusation flies false prophet, senile, conservative nut. Pat Robertson is no saint and has made mistakes, but to dismiss what his says because it makes your lifestyle inconvenient. I do not have the time or space to debate the “gay” lifestyle. You have freewill to do a you choose but that doesn’t mean to those of us the believe you are wrong, that we have to keep our minds and mouths shut. Freedom of speech is a right so say your peace and we will say ours. In the end when everyone will have to answer to God there will be a lot of excuses made by those who are wrong in what the believe. I am not your judges but I have the right to disagree, and I disagree with the “gay” agenda from a simple perspective “equal rights” are not what the gay community wants it is “special protective rights”.


  123. Derek Nettles says:

    What happened to post #1 Tryddity from that claimed that “abstinence does not work”? That was classsic!! I see that it has been removed, as has my subsequent remarks.

    It’s a real shame that logical, reasoned dissent is no longer welcome here. Best I get in lock-step witht the holier-than -thou- majority here. The editors here have proven themselves to be cowardly.


  124. wildwilly1111 says:

    Isn’t this the same guy who fully concurred with Jerry Falwell when he blamed 9/11 on pagans, gays, lesbians, abortionists, feminists, the federal court system and the ACLU?

    Yeah, thought so…


  125. swordsbane says:

    It’s not same-sex marriage that gets these people upset. It’s the fact that if we legalize same-sex marriage, we will be tacitly condoning gay sex itself and THAT is what they feel threatened by.

    I say: give them marriage. They can have it. No religious ritual should carry legal weight with the state, though. Marriage should begin and end inside the Church. For the rest of us, let’s put all those legal benefits of marriage in a place where they belong: with the family. You can bring anyone you want into your family, man woman, child adoptions. It’s not about who gets to screw who anyway. Last I heard, it wasn’t illegal to have sex with a different partner every night or with men AND women at the same time (oaky.. maybe in some states), so who really gives a sh*t? I mean besides the RR?


  126. thayes9217 says:

    The love of my life died 5/2/09 at the age of 95. You probably didn’t know him. Truly, truly that was your loss!

    He was the kindest, gentlest, most loving person I have ever known. All who knew him loved and respected him for who and what he was. As for me, my life is a thing of greater beauty and purpose simply because he was a part of it. In all our years together I was truly able to say every day, “I love him more today than I did yesterday.”

    He was one of that rapidly diminishing group of veterans of World War II. He served in the U.S. Navy for four years. Fortunately, he never had to kill anyone. He was a great lover of all life. And, oh, how he loved animals and generously supported those organizations whose purpose was their protection!

    He supported the community in many ways both culturally and socially. He supported organizations that were developed to advocate for the disenfranchised, the minority, and the poor. He never was in trouble with the law and never shunned his responsibility as a tax-paying citizen nor did he ever shirk any other responsibility expected of the citizens of our country.

    A truly model citizen you might say? Indeed! Yet, many who never met him nor ever came in contact with him – mostly people who identified as Christian — demanded that he be both condemned socially and be denied equality of citizenship. Some even clamored for his death! Why? It was simply because he was gay.

    He was not raised in a home where he was exposed to any religion. But I will tell you one thing: I saw in him a person much more like Jesus than many, many of those who sought to condemn him in the name of Jesus.

    We were life partners for decades and there is a great void in my life because he is gone. Although known as a loving person, I never knew I could either love or be loved as deeply and completely as I experienced with him. As we prepared for his death, we talked about many things. One that broke his heart more than any other was the “Christian” attitude toward us. He never hurt one of them — ever! So he could not understand why those “godly” people so despised us and demanded that we be relegated to no better than second-class status in the country of our births. He never could grasp how our being married would have harmed another’s marriage in the slightest, especially since many of those who condemned us experienced three or more spouses during the time we were a loving, monogamous couple. And so we were separated without our loving relationship ever having been recognized legally as a family.

    A democracy is defined as the “practice or principles of social equality.” That he, who loved, was loyal to and served his country — allegedly a democracy — was not granted equality during his lifetime, is an indictment against that claim. I will never forgive my country for that!

    Shame on you, America! More than that; shame on you Pat Robertson.


  127. jerseyboyblue says:

    Why the hell does anyone still listen to what this hateful, insane “cleric” have to say?


  128. CitizenE says:

    Gay Marriage is the last step before bad pizza. It will cause baseball players who need a little extra, you know to enhance their performance, to ingest female fertility drugs. Sanctioned homosexual marriage is bound to lead to lame sitcoms on NBC. Worst of all, legalized lesbian conjugality will inevitably lead to garish shades of lipstick, forever condemning political candidates such as Sarah Palin to be subject to endless scrutiny about what exactly it is that she does with wolves in helicopters.


  129. Pat_Riot says:

    Homosexual marriage is the first step on the short climb to bestiality? Methinks Mr. Robertson is a little confused about the meaning of a “stable” relationship. ;)


  130. lurkmode says:

    Would it be terrible to wish this guy would just die already?


  131. teri3157 says:

    Wewillsee says that those who are “pro-gay” (easiest label for now) have no “right” telling those who disagree with Robertson that they “keep our minds shut and our mouth closed”; you missed the point of the discussion. You turned, changed the plot to Wewillsee’s civil rights…it ain’t about you, buddy…you already have your civil right to say your “peace”, which I found as an interesting choice instead of “piece” proper. Your point that this about a “simple disagreement” or a “simple perspective” dismisses the fact that Robertson wants gay civil rights denied or heinous acts against humanity will rule society.

    This is about Robertson intimidating, with hate and lies, on a minority that he does not want to see approved in our society. He isn’t saying his “peace”; he’s attacking. He isn’t giving a “simple perspective” to a simple disagreement. Robertson is prophesying the future of which he knows nothing. He is making statements that have been proven untrue because the facts bare the truth that most of the “issues” he states are committed by heterosexuals, not homosexuals. There is no simple perspective or disagreement in his mind; he’s judge others on behavior using false statements and condemns the entire society to a future he can’t predict.

    Yeah, he should go in “time out” until he can act like a human being, discontinuing his “bad behavior” of telling lies and bullying minorities.


  132. thayes9217 says:

    Tracy__5

    Sorry, I guess I didn’t get the memo that all entries had to have your prior approval.


  133. lgarcia80 says:

    You mark my words you false prophet, the Church will do what it’s always done, that’s whatever is culturally acceptable. It’s cool to be a millionaire while people starve? Excellent, we’ll create a theology of wealth. The state wants to declare war? Awesome, let’s waive the flag and shout about family values, thou SHALT kill when the government says to kill. I support gay marriage 100% and I’m a Chrisitan, and this is the one issue I can’t wait to see these old, crusty rich serpents start to mumble about how great America is because we allow homosexual marraige…and they’ll likely try to take credit for it.


  134. susanthe says:

    Apparently Pat hasn’t read the Old Testament. It’s full of Christian polygamy. Holy Moley, Pat – if you’re going to use Leviticus, you have to use the whole Old Testament. Darned inconvenient for you cafeteria style Christians, isn’t it?


  135. Cattycat says:

    Must be another sign of the times – (Matthew 24:11 “Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many”) If there is one thing ironic about this apocalypse thing is that “Christians” are fulfilling the prophecy themselves.


  136. slounsbury says:

    I never cease to be amazed by this man’s ignorance. How in the world does one get from two consenting adults marrying to animals, more than two adults and children? There is no correlation. Apparently given that there is no reasonable or factual argument against the topic he’s seen fit to manufacture one. All he’s actually succeeded in doing however is to make a fool of himself (again). Sad, very sad.


  137. noneedforaname says:

    So exactly how long should it be until we have horse-human marriages legalized Pastor Roberts? The Heretics are dying to know!!


  138. curious says:

    Isn’t this man dead yet? This abysmal liar. He still has an audience? This crack pot who calls for assassinations. This man in his run for the Presidency lied about his war record. This mental midget. This man who made a good deal of his money with slave labor in Africa mining.

    Every time one of his kind speaks, I always feel my mind needs a good airing. He makes my skin crawl. His mind must be a catch all for obscenities of all kinds. Hurry, hurry folks get your first look at the mind of a born again dump heap. Right this way. You don’t need a ticket, just open your eyes and ears and listen.


  139. pdizil says:

    Good Job Pat!! He has it right somewhat. I think Congress wants thinks child molestors are the victims and should be nurtured.. Soon if Congress gets its way the age of consent will be 10 years old to protect all these piles of scum.. You people are NUTS!!


  140. Powkat says:

    Pat IS one of the things I consider abhorrent.


  141. cbcolquitt says:

    For sure, Pat’s kids are way too ugly to ever get molested. Sorry, Pat! You’ll just have to keep on taking care of that task yourself.


  142. aqualung says:

    Pat Robertson’s Gay





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