Televangelist Pat Robertson on Tuesday
decried anti-gay bullying as wrong.
Robertson made his remarks during a The
700 Club segment in which he answered viewers' questions.
Co-host Terry Meeuwsen read the
viewer's question.
“What would you say to a school that
has gay and LGBT students being bullied by the Christian kids?”
“Well I think that's terrible,”
Robertson answered, “and Christians shouldn't do that. I mean,
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, blah, blah, blah. You know,
Christians shouldn't do that. They ought to act in love. You might
disagree, you may think that these practices are an abomination, you
can think all sorts of things, but you need to love. And you need to
reach out to these kids in love.”
“Absolutely,” Meeuwsen said in
agreement. “Bullying is wrong, period.”
“Amen,” Robertson added. “Schools
shouldn't permit that either.” (Watch
the segment at EqualityMatters.org.)
Robertson's remarks come just days
after the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network's (GLSEN)
annual Day of Silence, in which students across the country take a
vow of silence in opposition to anti-gay bullying and harassment.
A counter protest, the so-called Day of
Dialogue, organized by the Christian conservative group Focus on the
Family, encourages students to “express their Biblical viewpoint in
a loving Christ-centered way – especially when sensitive issues,
like bullying and sexual identity, are addressed in their schools.”
(Related: Pat
Robertson advises woman to use Bible to reverse daughter's
homosexuality.)