Televangelist Pat Robertson came to Kim
Davis' defense Thursday by saying that gay rights activists want all
opponents of gay rights jailed.
Davis, the elected clerk of Rowan
County, Kentucky, was jailed Thursday for refusing to comply with a
judge's ruling ordering her to issue marriage licenses to all
qualified couples.
Davis argues that issuing licenses to
gay and lesbian couples would be a violation of her religious
beliefs.
(Related: KY
clerk Kim Davis ordered jailed for refusing to issue marriage
licenses to gay couples.)
On Thursday's 700 Club,
Robertson claimed that judicial decisions are not laws and therefore
Davis was not obligated to follow the Supreme Court's June ruling
striking down gay marriage bans in all 50 states.
“The Constitution says the supreme
law of the land is the Constitution, duly ratified treaties and laws
passed by the Congress and signed into law by the president. That’s
the law,” Robertson
told his viewers. “Judicial decisions do not constitute the
law. You’re not obligated to do that.”
“So this whole thing is – putting
her in jail and so forth – is nonsense.”
“But it will happen and it’s just
the beginning. It’s the warm-up of this battle. And I want you to
know right now, you've heard it here, the gays do not just want to be
recognized. They do not want to be accepted. They do not want to
have just freedom. They want everybody to agree with them and
everybody who doesn't agree with them and does not comport with their
way of thinking, they want to be punished, put in jail, or fined.
That’s the way they want it and you might as well get used to it,”
he added.