Televangelist Pat Robertson on
Wednesday laughed off a viewer's question about whether Christians
must obey Levitical laws about menstruation.
“I was wondering if you could explain
to me the difference in the Ten Commandments given by God versus the
laws given in Leviticus,” an unnamed viewer wrote. “A coworker
told me the other day that people can't consider themselves
Christians if they don't obey ALL of the laws in the Bible. For
example, in Leviticus, the Bible says that a husband cannot be in the
same room with his wife on her period. Why don't we keep the
Leviticus laws anymore? As Christians, is it okay to only follow the
written law and not the Levitical law? I think this is also a major
reason why Christians are called hypocrites all the time. What do
you think?”
“I'm not sure where you found that
either but nevertheless wherever you found it you don't have to worry
about it,” Robertson said with a laugh, “because what you do is
love each other. That you have love for one another. This is the
commandment I give you. All the rest of it – love God, love your
neighbors, yourself.”
But as recently as Monday, Robertson,
the host of CBN's The 700 Club, held up the Book of Leviticus
as proof that homosexuality is a sin.
“The Bible is very explicit about
[homosexuality],” Robertson said. “In the Old Testament it's
called an abomination. It's abomination for a man to lie with a man
as with a woman. An abomination.”
Right
Wing Watch notes that Robertson has previously explained away the
Old Testament's dictates on violence, slavery and polygamy.