Surprise! Pat Robertson Is Not Happy About Hate Crimes Bill
Yesterday on the Christian Broadcasting Network, televangelist Pat Robertson aired a segment slamming President Obama for signing the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law. Extending hate crimes protection to the gay and transgendered community, Robertson argued, was a targeted attack on homophobic Christians like himself. Robertson said the new law is the latest example of a “noose” tightening around “the necks of Christians.”
Apparently, Robertson’s definition of freedom is the ability to physically attack and injure gay and lesbian persons:
Assuming that people who believe Pat Robertson have the capacity to read, here is the actual language from the statute that addresses “hate crimes” committed on the basis of sexual orientation (and other categories):
Whoever . . . willfully causes bodily injury to any person or, through the use of fire, a firearm, a dangerous weapon, or an explosive or incendiary device, attempts to cause bodily injury to any person, because of the actual or perceived religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of any person. . . [shall be liable for criminal penalties stated in this legislation].
So, in order to believe Robertson, one must also believe that Christians, by definition, want to “willfully” cause “bodily injury” to people in the listed categories. Robertson’s grotesque logic also requires the listener to ignore the fact that the law also protects Christians — and everyone else — from religion-based violence.
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ruminatus
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Hey S-76 I called a xtian friend today just to talk and said, "you need to go vote after work.
The response was "I ain't votin f/nobody". Well I guess jesus is going to save her cause
she doesn't have the will to work in her own defense. I'm just frustrated and at a lost for words today. - 3 years ago
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Seraphina76
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It always strikes me as funny that the loudest evangelical Christian voices, are the ones with the least understanding of divine wisdom.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. -Anais Nin
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Seraphina76
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ruminatus
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Thank u like minded humans lets live and let live as for those that think their losing their rights put down the coffee drink more water. The pat rob's would have returning to
inquisitions and witch hunts. - 3 years ago
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Seraphina76
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I think in his next life, he shall be a cockroach
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chasingame
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Just another nut job in a giant sea of nut jobs complaining that he is losing his freedom to hate and discriminate.
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slarabee:
An insult to douches everywhere. Though I am not personally an accredited douche,I forgive you.
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Toughth
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I personaly don't agree witth the gay lifestyle but it is none of my buisness how they want to live their life. I don't want to be approached or propositioned by this community. On the converse side, the christian coalition, should have the same good manners not to insist on me beleiving the way they do. I have my own opinions and will fight to the hilt to allow others to their opinion, but to cause harm for that opinion is just plain wrong. That is what the hate crime bill is about. Live and let live should be the mantra of freedom. Many of our most conservitive leaders want to totaly control the people and this means a theocracy dictatorship like the Saudies have. REMEMBER WHAT THE NAZI PARTY DID TO ONE WHOLE SECTION OF THEIR SOCIETY BECAUSE OF INTOLERANCE.
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Toughth
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artemis6
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Better idea , lets US build spaceship jesus and send them off ... They have been talking so much they just can't hear Jesus radio signals ...
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bobbatt
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Wow! What's not to like here? This guy is hilarious, funnier even than Rush the Hutt. The only guy better is Glen Beck. He's the only 1 who really has it figured out you know. We are working toward planetary take over, Socialism, Fascism, Nazism and Green Peace all wrapped into 1 Christian hating coalition that will finally rid the world of any and all fat white rich people.
btw, what makes you think he actually read the bill? Also would it be legal to say God hates Homos and will probably reward any Homo Torturers in Heaven with the gift of 72 Virgin Boys, while also abhorring violence? - 3 years ago
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bobbatt
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GavinTheMother
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Pat Robertson is a political activist pretending to be a religious leader. He preys on the gullible, who would kill Jesus all over again if it would result in reviving Ronald Reagan.
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unimatrix0
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Robertson and other Christians who use their religious superstitions to justify hate and discrimination deserve only contempt and scorn.
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maxjunk
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I really hope there comes a day where we can legally lock up these assholes..
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rwahrens
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And another bonus goodie:
Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network Warns Americans Of ‘Demonic’ Halloween Candy:
http://www.au.org/media/press-releases/archives/2009/10/pat-robertsons-christian...
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rwahrens
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One would like to hope that when the Rapture comes it does not come for those who believe in Jesus but those who followed his teaching, to turn the other cheek. And, the commandment issued by God, "Love your neighbor as you do yourself."
Pat Robertson and his believers folow only in the book, they base their lives on, which fits into their little bigoted brain.
I believe that people that profess hate towards homosexuals don't hate them, but hate themselves for having the same feelings but too ashamed to act on them. - 3 years ago
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desertcat:
Bingo on that last line.
As for the rapture, it is not going to happen anyway. It's not even found in the Bible but a modern construct of contemporary American evangelicals. - 3 years ago
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artemis6
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desertcat:
I think they should stop talking and build spaceship jesus already .
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ruminatus
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Seems to me that some xtians believe their acceptance of a relgiuos endoctrination gives
them the right to condemn any other religion. aND F/THAT MATTER ANYone that isn't of that ilk. Theose xtians need to judge themselves before anyone else. Sunday their xtians
by friday they're bootyshaken, saturday stumbling thru hangover remorse and sunday
feeling like their saviour will forgive them for anything. If they didn't spend so time going
from the club to the church they could possibly just relax and be human and not allow
their gulit to cloud their judgement.NOW WHAT!!! - 3 years ago
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Top ten stupid Pat Robertson quotes**INCLUDES FREE BONUS QUOTE!!**
10) "Over 100 years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that’s held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings." –Pat Robertson, on the dangers of judicial activism
9) "Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court." –Pat Robertson
8) "Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history." –Pat Robertson
7) "I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if I were you, This is not a message of hate -- this is a message of redemption. But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor." –Pat Robertson, on "gay days" at Disneyworld
6) "(T)he feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." –Pat Robertson
5) "I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period." –Pat Robertson
4) "I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected him from your city. And don't wonder why he hasn't helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I'm not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that's the case, don't ask for his help because he might not be there." --Pat Robertson, after the city of Dover, Pennsylvania voted to boot the current school board, which instituted an intelligent design policy that led to a federal trial
3) "God considers this land to be his. You read the Bible and he says 'This is my land,' and for any prime minister of Israel who decides he is going to carve it up and give it away, God says, 'No, this is mine.' ... He was dividing God's land. And I would say, 'Woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the E.U., the United Nations, or the United States of America.' God says, 'This land belongs to me. You better leave it alone.'" --Pat Robertson, on why Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke
2) "Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up" –Pat Robertson, on nuking the State Department
1) "You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with." –Pat Robertson, calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo ChavezBonus Stupid Quote:
"Wait a minute, I didn't say 'assassination.' I said our special forces should 'take him out,' and 'take him out' can be a number of things, including kidnapping." –Pat Robertson, clarifying his call to assassinate Hugo Chavez - 3 years ago
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RFIDemocracy:
Extra Bonus Stupid Quote:
"Is it right to call for assassination? No, and I apologize for that statement. I spoke in frustration that we should accommodate the man who thinks the U.S. is out to kill him." –Pat Robertson
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RFIDemocracy:
My night has been partially ruined knowing that there is anyone out there who can remotely agree with any or all of those quoted remarks of disgrace.
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RFIDemocracy:
funniest thing i've read in ages.
particularly absurd/my fav quote of idiocy: "(T)he feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Progresshiv:
Profoundly so.
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