Pat'
Robertson:
Smiling
in the Face of Destruction
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700 Club Host’s Terrorist
Bomber Prophecy: A Veiled Threat
Southern Baptists Issue Bizarre
Anti-Gay/Anti-Woman Resolutions
By Badpuppy’s GayToday
From HRC Reports
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A major lesbian and gay organization
issued a warning Thursday to religious political broadcaster Pat Robertson
that remarks he’d made earlier this week about Orlando, Florida expose
him and his media empire to civil and criminal charges should the city
experience a terrorist attack.
Robertson said that Orlando
could suffer from terrorist bombs, hurricanes, earthquakes and even a meteor
for allowing gay pride flags to be flown along city streets. His remarks
were made Monday on the Christian Broadcasting Network's 700 Club following
a news report on Gay Days at Walt Disney World, which took place Saturday,
June 6.
"Pat Robertson practically
invited a terrorist attack on the city of Orlando." said David M. Smith,
the Human Rights Campaign's communications director and senior strategist.
"In the wake of last year's
bombings at Olympic Park, the Atlanta gay nightclub, and a number of attacks
on women's reproductive health care facilities, his remarks are an outrageous
act of irresponsibility that have the potential to incite more violence."
"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," Robertson said.
"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 has exposed
himself and the Christian Broadcasting Network to significant legal action
should such a terrorist attack take place," said Tony Varona, HRC's chief
counsel.
"These remarks clearly indicate
a reckless disregard for the safety and well-being of the people of Orlando."
Despite these irresponsible
remarks, three days later Pat Robertson was granted a meeting with House
Republican leadership to discuss issues of concern to the Christian Coaltion,
the religious political organization he founded.
Robertson and Christian Coalition
Executive Director Randy Tate met with House Majority Leader Dick Armey,
R-Texas, and Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas late Wednesday according
to news reports.
Southern Baptists Issue Bizarre
Anti-Gay/ Anti-Woman Resolutions
Yet another anti-gay resolution
was passed Thursday by the Southern Baptist Convention, meeting in Salt
Lake City. The resolution, shamelessly, called on Congress to rescind President
Clinton's executive order banning workplace discrimination against lesbian
and gay federal employees.
"This group seems to be obsessed
with attacking lesbian and gay Americans by resolution," observes the Human
Rights Campaign's senior strategist. "While differences of opinion on religious
matters is to be expected, religious disagreements never justify discrimination."
Earlier this week, the group
passed resolutions opposing same-gender marriage and urging wives to submit
to their husbands. Last year, the group called for a boycott of the Walt
Disney Company because of its policies extending health insurance to the
domestic partners of gay and lesbian employees and allowing Ellen DeGeneres'
character to come out as a lesbian on ABC's Ellen. The boycott failed as
Disney's stock and earnings soared. |
