Robertson: Gay People Deliberately Spread HIV/AIDS By Cutting People With Special Rings

[KamaAina]

Your daily dose o' derp.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-gay-people-deliberately-spread-hivaids-cutting-people-special-rings

Today on the 700 Club, Pat Robertson told co-host Terry Meeuwsen that gay men in cities like San Francisco attempt to spread HIV/AIDS to others by cutting them with a special ring when shaking hands. However, one could not hear Robertson make the remarks on the episode his Christian Broadcasting Network posted online, as the company once again appears to have edited Robertson’s comments after they aired.

While responding to a question from a woman who wondered if it was wrong for the church not to inform her that a man she was driving to worship services is “dying of AIDS,” Robertson admitted that he “used to think it was transmitted by saliva and other things, now they say it may be sexual contact.”...

“There are laws now, I think the homosexual community has put these draconian laws on the books that prohibit people from discussing this particular affliction, you can tell somebody you had a heart attack, you can tell them they’ve got high blood pressure, but you can’t tell anybody you’ve got AIDS,” he continued.

“You know what they do in San Francisco, some in the gay community there they want to get people so if they got the stuff they’ll have a ring, you shake hands, and the ring’s got a little thing where you cut your finger,” Robertson said. “Really. It’s that kind of vicious stuff, which would be the equivalent of murder.”

[hrmjustin]

1. This is a WTF moment in a long line of WTF moments.

[KamaAina]

2. I've been past the shop on Castro where they sell the rings.

It's called "Blood Brothers".

[hrmjustin]

6. I wonder how he dreamed this one up.

[Blue_Tires]

24. Pat's journalistic source for the ring-wielding fairies and bulldykes:

[TDale313]

28. He's vicious and insane...

And the idea that gay people are running around with special rings they use to cut and infect people with is just vile. If you're interested in where this fevered idea may have come from, however, check out the history of the poison ring, which dates back centuries. Some of them did have a little spring loaded needle which was used to inject the victim. Some had a little compartment to hold a pill or small amount of liquid.

[olddots]

3. hey Pat

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. Talk about vicious stuff.

[Zorra]

5. What's really scary is how many people take this liar seriously. nt

[Puzzledtraveller]

7. Wow, that is c-raz-y!

[joeybee12]

8. Your jaw isn't dropping far enough...

That is an amazing amount of stupid!

[LeftofObama]

9. What in the all living land of f*ck!

Where do these dingbats come up with this nonsense?!

[KamaAina]

10. Don't bogart that joint, Rev

[WCLinolVir]

11. Uh, the one trying to transfer disease has to also have some sort of body fluid to share.

After all, it is a bloodborne illness. Ahh, that explains the custom of hand kissing and licking among gay strangers. NOT.
Oh wait, that's why they kiss the pope's ring?

[KamaAina]

12. Stop making sense.

You're making my head hurt.

[Chan790]

13. Pat Robertson is a truly despicable piece of shit. n/t

[TrogL]

14. Pat Robertson's followers know he is lying

Authoritarian followers know they're living in a bullshit world. They want to live in the bullshit world because they cannot deal with reality. Many of them are also remarkably uncreative, hence they need an authoritarian leader like Robertson to make up their bullshit for them so they have something to think and say.

It's OK that it doesn't make any sense. They don't care.

It's OK that it defies all laws of science and principals of medicine. They don't care.

As long as it's something, anything to reinforce their weird warped world, it's exactly what they want and they'll pay good money to get it.

[closeupready]

16. This is the brilliant shining light of truth about Xtian Fundies.

Thank you. He could say anything and everything, and his followers would say, "I know it sounds crazy, but the good Rev. Robertson says that's how it is, so who am I..." yadda yadda.

[closeupready]

15. Do all his viewers need external validation of self-worth,

that they can't see how full of shit he is? Or just plain demeneted in his old age?

Really, he says that most "oh, don't listen to him; that's just grampa talking" things, I find it hard to believe anyone watching this pile of crap does anything much worse than maybe giggle.

[WCLinolVir]

19. Put some more vaseline on that lens.

[spanone]

17. pat, you ignorant asshole....

[City Lights]

18. He's a full-blown kook.

[bigtree]

20. at least that's what his buddy told his wife when he got that STD

[Warpy]

21. Robertson is senile.

He needs to retire to a mink lined nursing home where he can mumble this trash into his pureed peas and no one will ever pay attention to him again.

I can't believe how sick these people are getting.

I was a nurse through the worst of the AIDS epidemic in Boston and have the PTSD to prove it. I just want to grab him around the throat with one hand and slap him with the other until he promises to keep his spiteful, hateful mouth shut.

[EC]

22. He belongs in a home.

he's nuts

[Initech]

23. I think even Jesus would facepalm at this one!

WTF is Pat Robertson smoking and where might I obtain some?

[Bluenorthwest]

25. Instead of castigating him, the religious folks say 'oh, he's old and senility is showing'

-as if he did not blame gay people for 9-11 and everything since the first day of his hate career....they lie to help him.

[BeyondGeography]

26. So the ring has the virus?

Just trying to keep up.

[Initech]

27. Pat just wants to get his hands on the precious.

[Hekate]

29. Senile dementia would be my guess about now. Everything stripped away but the viciousness. nt