Televangelist Pat Robertson on Tuesday
claimed that gay rights were destroying the Boy Scouts of American
(BSA), marriage and society.
On the 700 Club, Robertson
called the BSA's recent decision to allow openly gay scouts, but not
adults, in its program a “terrible shame.”
“It's a terrible shame when the
people who are homosexual amount to a maximum 2 percent of the
population, those who are lesbian about 1 percent, it's a tiny
minority. But they are willing to rip apart the framework of
traditional marriage, to rip apart an organization that has done so
much good for young people, the Boy Scouts, to rip apart certain of
these other things that we have counted as important in our society.
All for one thing: that the way they do sex will be accepted in the
mainstream of society. Two percent deciding what the rest of us does
and they are willing to destroy it.”
“Hollywood and the so-called liberal
media has jumped on board that this is the new civil rights. Well, I
don't think so,” Robertson
said.
“But in any event, it breaks your
heart to see the Boy Scouts … torn up in order to accommodate a few
kids that want to do sex with each other. It just boggles the mind.”
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