Televangelist Pat Robertson's latest anti-gay comments have landed
him on Anderson Cooper's “Ridiculist.”
In a Tuesday 700 Club segment, Robertson claimed that gay
men in San Francisco are deliberately spreading HIV, the virus that
causes AIDS, with special rings that cut others when shaking hands.
“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,” Robertson
said. “Really. It's that kind of vicious stuff, which would be
the equivalent of murder.”
(Related: Pat
Robertson: “Vicious” gay people deliberately spread HIV with
special rings.)
Cooper said the comment put Robertson over the top and onto his
regular “The Ridiculist” segment.
“Really? A ring that somehow gives you AIDS. I've never seen
that particular section at Zales, have you?” Cooper rhetorically
asked his Anderson Cooper 360 viewers. “I totally get why
Pat Roberson is against same-sex marriage. He just doesn't want to
give gay men a reason to wear rings.” (The video is embedded on
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