Originally posted by redmenace
He is free to say what he wants, purchase the air time to do it, or have stations air his load of ****. Most christians I know don't pay any attention to what he says. The guy is like Jerry Farwell of crack.
Well, what I mean is we simply don't get people like that over here. I know he's not atall representative of the Us or Christians in general, unless there's been a sudden breakdown of mental health over the Atlantic
There's one guy who led a bunch of protests against the Jerry Springer opera being televised, but it was a really rare, very unusual thing to even hear of. So... when the US has elections where religion comes into play (abortion, homosexual marriage, all that stuff), it's barely mentioned over here; we tend to push the other way in fact.
Robertson called Scotland 'a dark land', overrun homosexuals (which is one of the most bizarre things I've ever heard; the Scottish devolved parliament is probably more left-leaning than Westminister, but I'm not sure the people here are particularly tolerant compared to the rest of the UK). And the resulting annoyance at it led to people forcing the Bank of Scotland tosever ties with him (he was to be chairman of some US based offshoot company). I think the consumer protest hit the Banks share prices to the tune of about £400m, incidentally.
Similar way as you won't see British (or Scottish) flags hanging next to ordinary suburban houses as you would see US flags, for example, or the whole 'right to own a gun' thing; just cultural differences.
Anyways, you can see why I think this guys a dick, and I'm wondering if he'd be prosecuted for inciting racial(?) hatred or the like over here. This bbc article -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/359136.stm - has some choice quotes;
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"In Scotland, you can't believe how strong the homosexuals are. It's just simply unbelievable," he told his viewers.
Scotland's religious past was no more, he said. "I don't think it exists any more. And what could happen? It could go right back to the darkness very easily."
"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women, It is about a socialist anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practise witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians"
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Anyways, he's a bigoted dick.
