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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCBN Covers Up Pat Robertson's Claim That Gays Spread AIDS on Purpose
These were his exact words to co-host Terry Meeuwsen, made during today's episode of the 700 Club:
You know what they do in San Francisco, some in the gay community there they want to get people so if they got (AIDS) theyll have a ring, you shake hands, and the rings got a little thing where you cut your finger. Really. Its that kind of vicious stuff, which would be the equivalent of murder.
http://gawker.com/cbn-covers-up-pat-robertons-claim-that-gays-spread-hiv-1209996528
UPDATE: CBN has also removed the YouTube video of the exchange.
UPDATE II: Robertson issued a non-apology to The Atlantic, saying that he "regret[s] that my remarks had been misunderstood, but this often happens because people do not listen to the context of remarks which are being said."
Of course, unlike CBN, we provided the entire exchange:
I was asked by a viewer whether she had a right to leave her church because she had been asked to transport an elderly man who had AIDS and about whose condition she had not been informed. My advice was that the risk of contagion in those circumstances was quite low and that she should continue to attend the church and not worry about the incident.
In my own experience, our organization sponsored a meeting years ago in San Francisco where trained security officers warned me about shaking hands because, in those days, certain AIDS-infected activists were deliberately trying to infect people like me by virtue of rings which would cut fingers and transfer blood.
I regret that my remarks had been misunderstood, but this often happens because people do not listen to the context of remarks which are being said. In no wise (sic) were my remarks meant as an indictment of the homosexual community or, for that fact, to those infected with this dreadful disease.
In my own experience, our organization sponsored a meeting years ago in San Francisco where trained security officers warned me about shaking hands because, in those days, certain AIDS-infected activists were deliberately trying to infect people like me by virtue of rings which would cut fingers and transfer blood.
I regret that my remarks had been misunderstood, but this often happens because people do not listen to the context of remarks which are being said. In no wise (sic) were my remarks meant as an indictment of the homosexual community or, for that fact, to those infected with this dreadful disease.
- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-gay-people-deliberately-spread-hivaids-cutting-people-special-rings#sthash.3X4Dkphf.dpuf
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-gay-people-deliberately-spread-hivaids-cutting-people-special-rings
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CBN Covers Up Pat Robertson's Claim That Gays Spread AIDS on Purpose (Original Post)
kpete
Aug 2013
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LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)1. F*ck pat robertson!
That is all.
Just Saying
(1,799 posts)2. There's got to be a special place in hell
For someone who claims to be a man of God and then spews such ignorant hate.
JeffHead
(1,186 posts)3. CBN may be starting to figure out Pat Robertson is a senile old coot....
and it might be about time to transition him into retirement. If they are tying to 'disappear' the stupid shit he says (and he has a long list) this example must be way beyond stupid, even for them. One can only hope the handwriting is on the wall for his exit. But, I'm sure they'll find an even crazier freak to replace him.