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Pat Robertson Adds Canada to 'Naughty Nations' List

Insults Leadership as 'Crazies that are Running Country'

Says America's Neighbor has 'Lost its Collective Mind'

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Virginia Beach, Virginia--TV Preacher Pat Robertson says "Canada has lost its collective mind". It looks like another country won't be getting a Christmas present from the right-wing U.S. televangelist.

Only recently Robertson denounced Scotland as a "dark land" where "homosexuals are riding high" after having business dealings with the Bank of Scotland that turned sour. Now he's turned his sights closer to home with a new addition to his 'naughty nations' list: Canada.

On his daily 700 Club television program Wednesday, Robertson denounced Canada's leaders because of a report that a Canadian commercial printer had been fined under the country's civil rights laws for refusing to print stationery for the Canadian Gay and Lesbian Archives.

Robertson urged his Canadian viewers to "throw out those crazies that are now running the country."

He explained his dismay with a misinterpretation of Canadian law:

"A pastor, speaking out in the pulpit saying 'I believe that God's word says the following: adultery is wrong, child molestation is wrong, incest is wrong' -- if you say that then there will be some coterie of people that say 'well we're the ones who committed the incest, and therefore we're a minority and should be protected.' And that pastor can be put in jail. Now this is very serious! And Canada has lost its collective mind.

"And it seems like to me that the Christians up there and those who believe in family values -- I'm talking about Roman Catholics, I'm talking about traditional Protestants, I'm talking about Evangelicals and I'm talking about Orthodox Jews -- anybody who believes in fundamental moral values should get together and throw out those crazies that are now running the country. It's just that simple. And we should fight here in America for these liberties. They can be taken away quickly."

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"It's a small coterie. It's not a big group. It's a small group of way-out leftists that are pushing this agenda. And they should be stopped."

In the same broadcast, Robertson also warned his viewers that the concept of tolerance for homosexuals and religious minorities was being "pushed all over Europe."

He said:

"This is why it is so terribly important for Christians to get involved in politics in the United States of America. You can't just sit in your pulpits and your pews and think that everything's going to be all right. It's not all right!

"And what's happening is the whole concept that's being pushed all over Europe, particularly, is 'tolerance.'

"It means that you will be intolerant in anything you say against homosexuality, against any kind of sin, against pedophilia, against some Rastafarian that wants to sacrifice a chicken in the middle of the Capitol building or what have you. You speak anything against that, then you're guilty of a hate crime."