Evangelist Pat Robertson

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"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 (rainbow) flags in God's face if I were you.'' 

Robertson was predicting a series of possible plagues after the Orlando City Council allowed the placement of rainbow flags on downtown streets, thus marking June as Gay Pride Month. Robertson also objected to The City Beautiful’s welcoming of gay men and lesbians during GayDays at Disney World. 

Same-sex love is so heinous, according to the tax-exempt televangelist/billionaire, that its mere presence in Orlando “will,” he says, “ bring about terrorist bombs, it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor.'' 

This commentary is his “message of redemption,'' insists Robertson, “not hate.” 

Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State (see GayToday’s current Interview) suggested that: "Politicians who take their marching orders from Pat Robertson ought to consider finding a new meteorologist.'' 

Similtaneously, in Salt Lake City, the Southern Baptist Convention, conducting a boycott against the Walt Disney Company for treating of same-sex love and affection with plain decency, has, among Baptist adherents, declared un-equal treatment and status for women --Baptist husbands must dominate submissive Baptist wives--as an official God-given doctrine. 

The Baptist Convention’s espousal of the doctrine of sexual inequality has been drawn, say its theologians, from the New Testament’s book of Ephesians 5:22-24 which demands of married women that they submit to their male spouses: 

22.  Wives, submit yourself unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 

23.  For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body. 

24.  Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 

The officially amended statement of Southern Baptist belief, approved in Salt Lake City,  reads:  

The husband and wife are of equal worth before God. Both bear God’s image but each in differing ways. The marriage relationship models the way God relates to His people. A husband is to love his wife as Christ loves the church. He has the God-given responsibility to provide for, to protect and to lead his family. A wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.  She, being “in the image of God” as is her husband, and thus equal to him, has the God-given responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his “helper” in managing their household and nurturing the next generation.