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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPat Robertson: ‘Love’ Your Lesbian Family Member By Refusing To Accept Her
On Thursday, televangelist Pat Robertson counseled a 700 Club viewer that the most Christian way for her to behave toward a lesbian in her family is to refuse to be her nieces enabler, and to refuse to give her blessing to her nieces relationships because they are un-Christian. My niece just graduated from a Catholic university and has now come out as a homosexual, wrote a viewer named Carol. How should I, as a Christian, respond to the situation if and when I meet her partner at family functions and at holidays?
Well, said Robertson, the last thing you want to be is judgmental and at the same time you want to be loving and warm and let them know that you love them, but you cannot accept it. You cannot be an enabler, he continued. If theyre living together as a homosexual [sic] and youre a Christian, you cannot say, I accept this lifestyle.
Do we accept adultery? he asked. Do we accept fornication? Do we accept immorality? I dont think we ought to be accepting of it.
You need to always have love, he said. You know, there are some homosexuals who have an enormous capacity for artistic expression. You find a lot of this in the homosexual community, and very talented people, but when its all said and done, we cannot say were gonna put the imprimatur of the Christian church over something that God himself calls a sin. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/15/pat-robertson-love-your-lesbian-family-member-by-refusing-to-accept-her/
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)This guy. Fooey!
mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)He's what? 150 now?
Initech
(100,081 posts)undeterred
(34,658 posts)Listening to him just encourages more idiocy.
Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)That would have been embarrassing.
MoreGOPoop
(417 posts)Blood Diamonds, Pat?
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)Initech
(100,081 posts)jmowreader
(50,560 posts)There is a very long list of fundagelicals and Republican politicians who were caught screwing other men's wives, and were accepted back into the fold after asking Jesus for forgiveness.
It's just guys loving other guys that Liquor Officer Pat can't accept.