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Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Pat Robertson: Leftists Use Abortion to Make Straight Women Equal With Lesbians

Author:     ERIC W. DOLAN
Source:     The Raw Story
Publication Date:     Monday, April 25th, 2011 -- 9:05 pm
 Link: Pat Robertson: Leftists Use Abortion to Make Straight Women Equal With Lesbians
Stephan:   If I were writing a novel I would hesitate to write this kind of stuff. Yet it is business as usual to the Far Right, which I know sounds partisan but is, in fact, just a factual observation. I have met Robertson several times. His father -- who was the junior senator from Virginia, under the towering presence of Harry Byrd -- and my father were acquainted, and we met several times years ago. I met him a couple of times later living in Virginia Beach. He is a powerful presence, and lives like a prince in a kind of evangelical conservative fantasy. That he said these things is not surprising. He routinely says things your crazy uncle at the wedding would scruple to pronouce. That people listen to him and accept what he says is what I find concerning. No one wants to talk about it, but we need to have a public conversation about how craziness became normal.

Television evangelist Pat Robertson said Monday on ABC Family’s The 700 Club that progressives support legal access to abortion because they want to make straight women equal with lesbians.

While discussing why President Barack Obama supported the funding of Planned Parenthood, Robertson said the far left supported a ‘culture of death’ that was ‘livid about killing babies.’

‘If a woman is a lesbian, what advantage does she have over a married woman? Or what deficiency does she have?’ he asked his co-host, Terry Meeuwsen.

‘Well, she can’t have children,’ Meeuwsen answered.

‘That’s exactly right,’ he said. ‘And so if these married women don’t have children, if they abort their babies, then that kind of puts them on a level playing field. And you say, nobody’s there to express that? Isn’t that shocking? Well, think about it a little bit ladies and gentlemen.’

Robertson is a cornerstone figure in America’s Christian right movement. He is the founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network, the Christian Coalition, International Family Entertainment Inc., Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation, and Regent University.

In recent years Robertson has come under fire for calling for the assassinations of foreign leaders, blaming gay people for Hurricane Katrina and claiming a ‘pact with the […]

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