Kirk Cameron has said that his anti-gay
comments got him “stoned, so to speak,” media watchdog
RightWingWatch.org
reported.
During an appearance on The 700 Club
to pitch his documentary film on America's moral downfall,
Monumental: In Search of America's National Treasure, Cameron
addressed the firestorm of controversy he created earlier this month
when he appeared on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight and said that
being gay is “unnatural” and “detrimental, and ultimately
destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization” and that
he would not be supportive if one of his six sons told him he was
gay.
The backlash is “perfectly making the
point of Monumental, which is that societies will eventually
come to the place where political correctness becomes so important
that if you don't bend your beliefs to the moral standards of the
politically correct, those in charge, you will be drug out to the
public square and stoned, so to speak, for holding your beliefs, or
you can hold them as long as you're silent,” Cameron said.
In commenting on the interview,
televangelist Pat Robertson applauded Cameron's opposition to gay
rights, which he described as an attack on marriage and procreation
from Satan. (The video is embedded in the right panel of this page.
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(Related: John
Stamos pokes fun at Kirk Cameron; proud to be considered honorary gay
man.)