Pat Robertson: Donating money to take away someone's rights isn't bigotry

Pat Robertson stepped into the debacle revolving around the recent departure of former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich over a donation to the 2008 Proposition 8 campaign, which successfully (for a time) took away the freedom to marry from gays and lesbians in California.

This was Pat's (inaccurate) take on the situation:

“Here this man at Mozilla, Eich, had given $1,000 about six or seven years ago — $1,000 — to a proposition,” Robertson explained. “And somebody came around and said, ‘Will you contribute?’ And he said, ‘Here’s a grand, get off my back.’ I mean, that’s probably all that it amounted to.”

“But instead of that, he’s being forced out by gay activists, who said that was hate speech to say that the union between a man and a woman is marriage — that’s hate speech.”

“Well then, the Bible then is full of hate. If that the way it is, then God almighty is a hater. If that’s the way they want to define it. And I, of course, don’t agree.”

To hear Pat tell it, Eich's donation was a casual kind of thing. Because, you know, donating money to take away folks' rights is "casual."

Plus, Pat's version of events was Eich was "forced" out. In truth, Eich was the CEO - the face of the company - and information was made public about his political views which stood in direct opposition to the mission statement of Mozilla.



(via RawStory)