Someone wrote in to the 700 Club and asked Pat Robertson for help because she found out her 16-year old daughter is lesbian. He gives her exactly the kind of terrible advice one would expect, saying that the girl needs counseling — from a preacher, not an actual mental health professional, of course — but then adds one more suggestion: She should move to another town. One without women, apparently.
Apr 12 2012
Robertson Counsels Parent of Lesbian Daughter
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Spanish Inquisitor
April 12, 2012 at 12:10 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The sad thing about this is that there are people who will actually take his advice, including the woman with the lesbian daughter.
AND, they’ll send him a check for it.
{shakes head}
Michael Heath
April 12, 2012 at 12:15 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Pat Robertson:
There’s a bunch of absurdities in this short clip than just this one, but I liked this one. Mr. Robertson seems to be obliviously illustrating how homophobes are disproportionately attracted to the same sex.
tommykey
April 12, 2012 at 12:25 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I say we all start writing to Pat with made up problems about religion and sexuality that push all the right buttons to see if he reads them on the air.
MikeMa
April 12, 2012 at 12:42 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@tommykey,
What makes you believe that isn’t happening already?
holytape
April 12, 2012 at 12:42 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Anyone seeking Pat “God’s-gonna-nuke-us-in-2008″ Robertson needs serious consoling. The only thing that Pat gets right is that the family needs professional help.
richardelguru
April 12, 2012 at 12:45 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
tommykey Only problem is some poor sod would have to watch the bloody programme to see if he does.
marcus
April 12, 2012 at 12:45 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Oh that poor girl. It’s hard to think of anything more horrifying than having your mom (obvious christofanatic) consulting Pat-fucking-Robertson about your sexual identity and advice on a cure for your sexual orientation. Ewww! Just ewwww!
interrobang
April 12, 2012 at 12:45 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
. . . teenagers aren’t quite sure of their sexual identity.
I think that should be fixed as young bisexuals are often not quite sure of their sexual identity. Most people who are either straight or gay don’t seem to have much of a problem figuring out which they are by puberty or so, despite what liars like Robinson would have us believe, not to mention the Christian homophobe contingent who have to “work at” being straight.
Markita Lynda—it's Spring after the Winter that wasn't
April 12, 2012 at 12:55 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
J. T. Eberhard mentioned a program to help people find secular counsellors. Maybe the daughter could find one in her town and insist on going to that one if anyone.
eric
April 12, 2012 at 1:03 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
but then adds one more suggestion: She should move to another town.
Ironically not a bad suggestion, albeit a year or two premature. The young woman will, more likely than not, benefit from going to a college outside of her parent’s community.
baal
April 12, 2012 at 1:21 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I don’t call him ‘evil uncle chuckles’ for nothing. Ed’s selections aside, I can’t recall ever finding anything he’s said on that show worth the time it took to hear it (even for a few seconds).
Modusoperandi
April 12, 2012 at 1:53 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Dear Sir,
Thank you for the advice. My daughter tells me that she is no longer a gay homosexual lesbian, and that she plans to go far, far away to college in the Fall.
Now the problem is our female dog. While our daughter is thoroughly (and chastely) heterosexual, our dog is having a serious and, I must say, committed relationship with my leg.
What ever shall I do? I would ask my husband, but he’s readying a float for a parade of some kind. “Heroes of the Construction Industry” is the theme, going by his costume.
God bless,
Kat
petermountain
April 12, 2012 at 2:14 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Counselling, moving away…meh
Why not just pray and if the relationship persists then it must be Gawd’s will.
lofgren
April 12, 2012 at 2:20 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Often teenagers are not entirely confident in their sexual identity. But that doesn’t matter. This is coming from somebody who denies the existence of a sexual identity. A girl who thinks she is a lesbian isn’t “unsure of her sexual identity,” she is committing a vile sin against god in defiance of all that is natural. For Pat to even acknowledge that a sexual identity is something that might be different for different people is a colossal slip-up on his part.
This is like when Sarah Palin had the gall to say that whatever Bristol “chose” to do about her pregnancy would be a family matter and the media should stay out of it. She wants to take away everybody else’s right to choose, stick her witchy nose in all of our business, but when it’s her family it’s a “personal choice.”
Pat Robertson cannot ask “Is she really a lesbian?” Pat Robertson does not believe that lesbians exist.
d cwilson
April 12, 2012 at 2:39 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Asking Pat Robertson for advice on human sexuality is like asking Jeffery Dahlmer for recipe tips or Newt Gingrich about fidelity.
cag
April 12, 2012 at 4:57 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
tommykey #3, the problem with your suggestion is that in order to be read, there has to be a substantial financial incentive attached. Pat won’t do squat for nothing.
democommie
April 12, 2012 at 6:39 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“She should move to another town. One without women, apparently.”
Well, I’m guessin’ that town would not be in Kansas.
teawithbertrand
April 12, 2012 at 7:25 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Man…Does ol’ Pat ever say anything that isn’t fuck-you worthy?
Taz
April 12, 2012 at 9:33 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Now this is pretty funny:
CCOKC – Child Celebrities Opposing Kirk Cameron
jasmyn
April 13, 2012 at 8:50 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hold on…a same-sex relationship is easy? Her parents are clearly bible beating religious nuts. How would that be easier than getting a boyfriend?
I hope this poor girl gets far away from her parents.
howdini
April 13, 2012 at 10:43 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The best part of this post was that it was accompanied in Google Reader by an ad for Liberty Univ. Online.