Televangelist Pat Robertson on Tuesday
expressed outrage that the National Football League (NFL) would back
LGBT rights.
In announcing earlier this month its
opposition to a Georgia bill approved by lawmakers but rejected by
Governor Nathan Deal that sought to protect opponents of marriage
equality, the NFL said that such policies may be used in determining
future Super Bowl host sites.
(Related: Georgia
Gov. Nathan Deal vetoes anti-gay bill.)
“The whole thing is absolutely
ludicrous,” Robertson
told his 700
Club
viewers. “This is the greatest nation on Earth. We have
degenerated beyond measure. And what are we fighting about? These
things about transgender and so forth? I mean, who cares? This kind
of thing is just absurd and we're making a big civil rights thing.”
Robertson described the NFL as a
“supposed bunch of man-sized warriors” who are saying that they
want gays to be their “heroes” and “won't go wherever the law
says that Christians have a right to speak out.”
“The whole thing is absolutely absurd
and it makes me sick to my stomach,” he added.