In advising an Idaho couple who do not
wish to marry gay couples, televangelist Pat Robertson accused the
Supreme Court of forcing an “onslaught of homosexual behavior.”
Donald and Evelyn Knapp, ordained
ministers with the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, run
The Hitching Post, a for-profit wedding chapel in Coeur d'Alene. The
Knapps on Friday filed a lawsuit against the city claiming that its
leaders are forcing them to violate their religious beliefs by
performing weddings for gay couples. City attorney Warren Wilson
told a paper in May that the city's gay-inclusive non-discrimination
ordinance would apply to the Knapps' business should marriage
equality become legal in the state, which happened last week.
(Related: Idaho
wedding chapel sues city after declining to marry gay couple.)
“[T]his onslaught of homosexual
behavior that is being forced on us by the Supreme Court of the
United States is having deadly consequences,” Robertson
told his The
700 Club
viewers.
Robertson advised the Knapps to “leave
Idaho.”
“I think those guys in Idaho had
better get out of dodge now before it gets any worse,” Robertson
said. (The video is embedded on this page. Visit
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But the Knapps won't be joining
Robertson in Virginia, where same-sex nuptials were legalized earlier
this month.