Televangelist Pat Robertson on
Wednesday claimed that gays will die out “because they don't
reproduce.”
Robertson, an ardent opponent of gay
rights, made his remarks during The 700 Club's Bring It
On-Line segment, in which he answers viewers' questions.
“I've been in church all my life with
my family,” a viewer named Crystal wrote. “We are not allowed to
date. The only ones in my church that are married already knew their
partners before coming in to church. It is treated as a sin to show
interest or to have a mutual understanding in church with the
opposite sex. Most of the people in the church are frustrated
because we're getting older and no one is getting married. We pray
about the issue but it seems like it is bouncing back. What should I
do?”
Robertson criticized the policy, saying
that the church was “doomed.”
“Those who are homosexual will die
out because they don't reproduce,” Robertson
said. “You have to have heterosexual sex to reproduce. Same
thing with that church, it's doomed. It is going to die out, because
this is the most nonsensical thing I have heard in a long time.”
“This is absurd. God has made us to
be in families. God has created a desire of men and women to have
attraction to the opposite sex so that they will reproduce and have
children,” he added.
Robertson advised the woman to “run”
away from her church. (The video is embedded on this page. Visit
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