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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Dec 13, 2013, 09:44 AM Dec 2013

Pat Robertson: Letting lesbians in your house might turn your kids gay


By David Edwards
Thursday, December 12, 2013 12:33 EST

Televangelist Pat Robertson warned a viewer on Thursday that she should be careful when allowing lesbian friends into her home because “you don’t want your children to grow up as lesbians.”

A viewer named Catherine told the TV preacher that she had recently reconnected with a childhood friend, who was a lesbian. She invited the friend to meet her children but became concerned when she asked to bring her same sex partner.

“I don’t want her to think that I’m okay with her ways,” the viewer explained. “And I don’t feel comfortable having her around my children.”


Robertson advised the woman not to “shun” her friend, “but at the same time, you don’t want your children to grow up as lesbians.”

“That’s what you’re talking about,” he said. “You don’t want to show them that that’s an acceptable lifestyle for your family.”

“It doesn’t hurt to tell somebody, ‘Look, I love you and we’re going to do what we can to be friends if we can, but I have my lifestyle, it’s Christian. And you have yours, it’s not. And so, I’m sorry, we can’t indulge in certain things together.’”

Robertson predicted that the woman’s friend would “respect” her honesty.

Watch this video from the CBN’s The 700 Club, broadcast Dec. 12, 2013.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/12/pat-robertson-letting-lesbians-in-your-house-might-turn-your-kids-gay/
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Pat Robertson: Letting lesbians in your house might turn your kids gay (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2013 OP
Idiot: "I have my lifestyle, it’s Christian. And you have yours, it’s not." So you cannot be... CurtEastPoint Dec 2013 #1
But it plays good to the Religious Right...We will hear this a lot more sorry to say Tippy Dec 2013 #2
It's like letting your kids associate with Yankee fans hack89 Dec 2013 #3
And once again, Pat Robertson proves that he is a moron. MineralMan Dec 2013 #4
OMG, what if her little sons turn into lesbians? DetlefK Dec 2013 #5
Not letting lesbians into your house might turn your kids into gollygee Dec 2013 #6
letting pat robertson in your house might make you an asshole. spanone Dec 2013 #7
So letting heterosexuals into your home Ilsa Dec 2013 #8
So it should follow that letting straight people in your home would make your kids straight .... Lil Missy Dec 2013 #9
It's a bit like the argument that gay people shouldn't be parents gollygee Dec 2013 #10
What if the EMT is a lesbian and you're having a heart attack in your house? Yavin4 Dec 2013 #11
Must be those pesky lesbian pheromones at play... MrScorpio Dec 2013 #12
Robertson then went on to inform the woman that if her lesbian friend entered her home ... 11 Bravo Dec 2013 #13
Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. Johonny Dec 2013 #14
+ a zillion narnian60 Dec 2013 #15
what happens when you allow bigoted assholes into your home? frylock Dec 2013 #16
I have no problem with having Skidmore Dec 2013 #17

CurtEastPoint

(18,642 posts)
1. Idiot: "I have my lifestyle, it’s Christian. And you have yours, it’s not." So you cannot be...
Fri Dec 13, 2013, 09:46 AM
Dec 2013

gay and a Christian, right? What a fucking asshole.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
3. It's like letting your kids associate with Yankee fans
Fri Dec 13, 2013, 10:00 AM
Dec 2013

they look normal and harmless but the consequences do your kids could last a lifetime.

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
6. Not letting lesbians into your house might turn your kids into
Fri Dec 13, 2013, 10:05 AM
Dec 2013

intolerant jerks.

I'd pick the gay over the jerk any day.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
8. So letting heterosexuals into your home
Fri Dec 13, 2013, 10:16 AM
Dec 2013

might turn your LGBT kids straight, leading them to a lifetime of confusion, frustration, anger, etc.

Lil Missy

(17,865 posts)
9. So it should follow that letting straight people in your home would make your kids straight ....
Fri Dec 13, 2013, 10:48 AM
Dec 2013

Right?

Wait .... wut?

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
10. It's a bit like the argument that gay people shouldn't be parents
Fri Dec 13, 2013, 10:57 AM
Dec 2013

because their kids will end up being gay, completely ignoring the obvious fact that the vast majority of gay people have straight parents.

11 Bravo

(23,926 posts)
13. Robertson then went on to inform the woman that if her lesbian friend entered her home ...
Fri Dec 13, 2013, 11:05 AM
Dec 2013

the domicile would be destroyed by either a catastrophic storm or a plane hi-jacked by religious fanatics.

Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
17. I have no problem with having
Fri Dec 13, 2013, 05:35 PM
Dec 2013

people from the LGBT community around my young ones. I would have a problem with having them in close proximity to Robertson or any of his ardent cultists.

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