Televangelist Pat Robertson on
Wednesday argued that Jesus would not have baked a wedding cake for a
gay couple.
After a 700 Club segment on a
Colorado baker who refused to serve a gay couple based on his
religious faith and who has since been ordered to serve customers
equally regardless of sexual orientation or face fines, Robertson
blamed Satan for homosexuality.
“I think you got to remember from the
Bible, if you look carefully at the Bible what would have happened in
Jesus’ time if two men decided they wanted to cohabit together,
they would have been stoned to death,” Robertson
said. “So Jesus would not have baked them a wedding cake nor
would he have made them a bed to sleep in because they wouldn’t
have been there. But we don’t have that in this country here so
that’s the way it is.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, I think we
have to recognize what I said a few years ago. At that point
homosexual marriage was condemned, homosexuality itself was
considered a pathology and now those that are practicing that
activity have turned and become the oppressors of those who hold
deeply-held religious points of view, the tables have turned.”
Robertson compared being gay with
abortion: “Both of them deny the reproduction of human species.”
“The Devil is trying to say, 'I'm
going to destroy your progeny any way I can. If you will kill your
babies, that’s fine, I’m with you; if you will deny the chance of
having babies, that’s fine too. But I want to destroy your
opportunities to reproduce,’” Robertson said. “It’s a very
serious thing and we’re not talking about it, and we need to as a
society, we have to realize where the attack is coming because it is
definitely an attack.”
Co-host Wendy Griffith applauded
Robertson: “The devil wants to steal, kill and destroy. Well said,
Pat.”