In the course of answering a The 700
Club viewer's question, Pat Robertson jumped into a rant against
gay men, claiming that they “come after” young men.
“My son is gay,” a woman named
Nancy wrote. “He is in a relationship with a man who is married
and has 2 grown daughters. They are very active in our church, but
no one is aware of this situation. His wife has no idea. My son
lives with me. What would the Lord want me to do? I pray about his
situation constantly. I am a widow.”
Robertson assumed that the woman's son
was a minor, claiming that the married man was “a pedophile,”
then launched into a broader rant in which he accused gay men of
recruiting children into homosexuality.
“I'd go to the pastor, I'd go to the
elders and say, 'Listen, this guy is hitting on my son and it's a
relationship that's outrageous. He's married, got children, and now
he's taking up with my son,'” Robertson
advised. “He's a pedophile.”
“Her son right now doesn't know what
he wants and he doesn't know whether he's a homosexual or not a
homosexual, but this guy is trying to talk him into that,”
Robertson said. “There's so many young people, impressionable, some
coach comes after them, some adult comes after them, some older
sibling comes after them, and they somehow think, 'Because they did
this I must be gay.' Well, he doesn't know that for sure. He
doesn't know what sexual identity he's got.”