Pat Robertson has questioned the
Democratic Party's support for gay marriage in its platform, saying
it is tantamount to a “death wish.”
Over the weekend, the Democratic
Party's platform drafting committee unanimously approved adding
language in support of gay nuptials to the 2012 Democratic Platform.
If approved by the full committee in two weeks, Democrats meeting in
Charlotte will vote on whether the plank should be included on
September 3.
(Related: Support
for gay marriage among Democrats jumps 15 percent in 4 years.)
Robertson railed against the move on
the 700 Club.
“About 2 percent of the population
are homosexual, 1 percent of the population is lesbian. That's a
tiny group and every time this initiative has been brought to the
ballot where the people have a chance to vote they vote
overwhelmingly in favor of traditional marriage,” Robertson
told viewers. “For the Democrats to go out on that limb, it
just seems like to me that they are further alienating themselves
from the mainstream of America. If that's what they want to do,
fine, but it will mean the death knell of their party, it seems like
to me, and of course that's what they're doing but maybe they have a
death wish.” (The video is embedded in the right panel of this
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(Related: NOM's
Brian Brown: Gay marriage in Democratic platform would kill
marriage.)