I supposed I should be inured to the fact that whenever Pat Robertson opens his mouth, ignorance and hatred is going to come tumbling out like his tongue is falling down the stairs. But today he said something so vile and rancid that it deserves strong pushback.
On his Christian Broadcasting Network Program, the 700 Club, Robertson's toady sidekick, Terry Meeuwsen read a question from a viewer wondering if it was wrong for her church not to inform her that a man she was driving to worship services is dying of AIDS.
UPDATE: CNB has removed this video citing copyright claim. This sad little attempt at damage control will not help.
“What to say if you’re driving an elderly man whose got AIDS? Don’t have sex with them,” Robertson said, “unless there’s a cut or some bodily fluid transmission, I think you’re not going to catch it.”That was ugly enough, but what came next will go down as one of the ugliest charges he has ever made against gay people, and that is saying something.
There are laws now, I think the homosexual community has put these draconian laws on the books that prohibit people from discussing this particular affliction, you can tell somebody you had a heart attack, you can tell them they’ve got high blood pressure, but you can’t tell anybody you’ve got AIDS.In Meeuwsen's defense, you could tell she was trying to save him from himself, but to no avail. The CBN, recognizing just how outrageous this was even for an idiot of Pat's caliber, edited out the offensive moment when they posted the full program on their website.You know what they do 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. Really. It’s that kind of vicious stuff, which would be the equivalent of murder.
Clearly the CBN is ashamed of some of the stuff that Robertson spouts, otherwise they wouldn't have tampered with the evidence. The question is, what does this dangerous bigot have to say that would finally get him fired from the network? From his track record, a doubt there is any line which they won't let him cross, so long as they think they can just edit it out and pretend it never existed. They sure don't seem to know much about how the internet works.
Via Right Wing Watch