Televangelist Pat Robertson on
Wednesday advised a woman to pray for her gay nephew to turn
straight.
Robertson answers 700 Club
viewers' questions during the show's Bring It On segment.
“My 30-year-old nephew just told the
family that he's gay,” Teresa wrote. “I want to pray for him,
but does he need to pray for himself in order to be helped?”
“The psychiatrists, psychologists
used to say that homosexuality was a mental illness,” Robertson
answered. “Now, the Supreme Court has said that it's a protected
right. So, what's he going to pray about? Is he going to say
something's wrong? Unless he's unhappy, and if he's unhappy, and he
realizes he's doing something that makes him miserable you might help
him.”
“It's a very delicate situation but
they need to be shown the Bible. What does the Bible say about this?
The Bible is explicit about it.”
“Now, I understand and I've mentioned
on this program, people that need a sex change operation, in other
words it's a woman trapped in a man's body, a man trapped in a
woman's body, and they really need some hormones and surgery to get
thing lined up, that's one thing. But this other, many, many people
are into this lifestyle because they have been abused as a child and
so forth.”
“I don't know why he's there … but
I think, you say he's got to pray for himself. Yeah, but you can
pray that the Lord will show him his love and his truth and out of
that he will find an acceptance to where God has for him.” (The
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