Only "Male Prostitutes" Mr. Robertson?

[kpete]

In the new video, Robertson attempts to rationalize the national outrage his quotes caused, telling the congregation that people were upset because "instead of acknowledging their sin, like you had better do, they railed against me for giving them the truth about their sins. Don't deceive yourselves," he warns.

He continues by paraphrasing a verse from Corinthians, saying, "Neither the sexually immoral, nor the idolators, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexual offenders, nor thieves, nor greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God." Those words are met with applause.

Question, only male prostitutes? Is that to make up for all the other misogynistic crap ya think?

http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/05/23/duck-dynasty-phil-robertson-antigay-sermon-video/

[Wounded Bear]

1. Well, when that was written, female prostitutes were pretty common...

Didn't make much money being against them. Hell, many of the religions ran various versions of temple mistresses.

[antiquie]

2. "nor greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers"

That should keep a good number of Repugs out.

[Scuba]

3. Hey Pat, does "swindlers" include you and your televangelist colleagues? It should.

[Tanuki]

5. Such as his diversion of charity donations as a front for his African diamond mines?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/07/doc-mission-congo-alleges-pat-robertson-exploited-post-genocide-rwandans-for-diamonds.html

....."According to Jessie Potts, who served as Operations Manager for OBI in 1994, the charity stopped sending medical teams to Goma several weeks into the operation. Instead, the film alleges that these resources—the donations, the cargo planes, etc.—were used for the for-profit African Development Company Ltd., a diamond mining operation that was headquartered in Kinshasa, while the mining site itself was located in the remote village of Kamonia. Robertson was the sole shareholder and president of ADC.

In the film, Bill Sizemore, a reporter for The Virginian-Pilot that penned an exposé on Robertson’s activities in Africa, claims that the ADC had a mining license granted to it by Mobutu, then-president of Zaire, who had been sanctioned by the United Nations over alleged human rights violations.

“Pat Robertson, over the course of the next few years, actually lobbied to have the sanctions against Mobutu removed,” Sizemore says in the film.".....

[Scuba]

6. No one could have predicted that.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute

Fred Garvin: Ma'am, you're dealing here with a fully qualified male strumpet. I service the entire quad cities area - Moline, Rock Island, Davenport and Bettendorf. Why don't you give it a whirl? What have you got to lose?



http://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78ofredgarvin.phtml

[packman]

7. Not to divert the thread

But, I like how he clumped thieves (Jesus and his friends on the crosses - one would be in heaven with him that day he promised), the greedy(count your dollars hypocrite), drunkards (Phil is a "reformed" alcoholic), the slanders (look in a mirror), the swindlers (Ex-Preppie guy grows a beard, goes camo makes a fortune from the Redneck crowd).

Oh, forgot sexually immoral and adulterers - Phil cheated on his wife beating her in booze fogged rages big time before he came to Jesus.

http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2013/07/phil-robertson-duck-dynasty-happy/

By the way, already posted earlier yesterday in General discussion

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4992124

[MisterP]

8. some philology to go deeper into the issue (I mean, you can't fight fundamentalism

if you agree that only fundie hermeneutics is the right way, now can you)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_the_New_Testament
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_prostitution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malakia

[xchrom]

9. well done. nt

[MisterP]

10. again it's extremely important to make clear to everyone that the fundies' interpretations and

paradigms are absolutely not the only ones being used, but that furthermore they're unsupported and highly eccentric: that not only cripples the conversation but more importantly cripples the opponents, and soon enough they start saying weird things like that creationism's Catholic, that NICE from "That Hideous Strength" are the good guys, or that Giordano Bruno was a martyr to science

[951-Riverside]

11. The show is dead and on its way to cancellation.

Gay bashing is the only thing that keeps them afloat but even that's getting old.

Sorry but a show about a bunch of old duck callers can only go so far.