Pat Robertson’s homophobic history of spewing hate
09.06.2023 - 19:39
/ qvoicenews.com
One of the chief things for which televangelist Pat Robertson will be remembered is his long record of anti-LGBTQ+ statements.
Robertson, who died Thursday at age 93, was the founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and host of its long-running program “The 700 Club,” which he used to spew homophobia and transphobia.
Pat Robertson also founded the Christian Coalition, representing religious conservative viewpoints in politics, and sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1988.
He played a large role in turning the Republican Party rightward.
One of his most infamous comments was that LGBTQ+ people and supporters of abortion rights were to blame for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — something he had to backtrack.
But he made many other outrageous remarks, such as saying feminism turns women into lesbians and that gay men wear special rings to transmit HIV.
Here’s a roundup of Pat Robertson’s worst.
Nazis were gay
In 1990, Pat Robertson claimed that many of the supporters of Adolf Hitler were gay, when in fact Hitler and his Nazi government persecuted LGBTQ+ people, especially gay men, sending many to concentration camps. On “The 700 Club,” he said homosexuality “is a pathology,” and he continued, “It is a sickness, and it needs to be treated. … Many of those people involved with Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals. The two things seem to go together.”
A fundraising letter sent out under his signature in 1992 included this language: “The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.” Some