Pat Robertson, the host of the
Christian Broadcasting Network's (CBN) The 700 Club, last year
claimed that the Supreme Court's marriage equality ruling makes it
harder to fight the “forces of secularism trying to destroy us.”
The high court on June 26 of last year
found that gay and lesbian couples have a constitutional right to
marry.
Robertson criticized the decision in a
podcast with Steve Strang, the founder of the Pentecostal magazine
Charisma.
The televangelist warned that “the
homosexuals don't want equality. They don't want equal treatment.
What they want is to destroy everybody who disagrees with them.”
He added that a “vendetta” would be exacted on “any
organization that disagrees with homosexuality.”
“The Supreme Court, to think that
we've got five men and women, five unelected people who are
controlling of the moral destiny of this nation and they're stripping
us of the defenses that we have to have against radical Islam and the
other forces of secularism trying to destroy us,” Robertson
told Strang. “The Supreme Court is making it more and more
difficult to assert these foundational values.”