For context your point could have been better made had the video not ended here. When you listen to the totality of his comments Robertson's point becomes clear and this attack against him is revealed as just another attempt at deflection.
Liberal/progressives do face a dilemma, one they refuse to even acknowledge. One one hand they support LBGT "rights" in all form and fashion, even to the point of
destroying the lives and lively-hoods of American
business owners doing nothing more than attempting to
exercise their First Amendment rights. Yet these same liberal/progressives also grovel at the feet of Islam, a religion the adherents of which actually murder gays for the crime of being gay in gruesome and brutal fashion. Quote:
"Saudi Arabia produces textbooks used inside and outside the kingdom that teach that the punishment for homosexuality is death. One book quotes Ibn Qudamah, who said, “The companions of the Prophet were unanimous on killing, although they differed in the description, that is, in the manner of killing. Some of the companions of the Prophet stated that [a homosexual] is to be burned with fire. It has also been said that he should be stoned, or thrown from a high place.”
"Under Islamic law, homosexuals may be sentenced to death in 12 countries..."
Robertson has a point. Let a Christian attempt to exercise their First Amendment right to the free practice of their religion and the liberal/progressive crowd will instantly begin foaming at the mouth with rage and launch themselves into near-murderous retribution mode. However let adherents to Islam burn gays alive, toss them from rooftops, drown, hang, or simply shoot gays just for being gay, and that same liberal/progressive crowd will say nothing, do nothing.
Except, of course, attempt to blame Christians and/or the Republican Party when another adherent to Islam murders 49 gay people in the name of Allah.
This obvious dichotomy wrapped in typical leftist hypocrisy has been interesting to watch play out. Since the Orlando shootings liberals have been scrambling to find evidence which does not exist, justifications which do not apply, and inane rationalizations which incriminate others all in the attempt to wrap Omar Mateen in a blanket of
sympathy woven from leftist attempts to render him a
victim of the intolerant American religious right. The desperation to attach blame to anything other than the very cause Mateen himself articulated has the left in this country scrambling around like roaches caught in the light.
The reaction to Robertson's comments also, once again, reveals the flawed logic and intellectual bankruptcy of the American left. Robertson employed a metaphor, a concept unfathomable to your average liberal/progressive. The phrase sit back and let them kill themselves does not and did not literally mean we as Christians should sit by and either allow the left to kill themselves or cheer as they do it. It was a metaphor for the fact we as Christians at times have no choice but to let people be themselves.
As a rule American liberal/progressives do not hate radical Islam. They do not hate radical Islamic terrorism or those who put radical Islamic terrorism into brutal practice. American liberal/progressives hate Christians, Conservatives, and Conservative Christianity. They see Conservatives, conservative ideals and the religious right as the true enemy to be destroyed, based on the insane logic and vapid reasoning that whereas adherents to Islam may murder members of the LBGT crowd in vile, demented fashion, Conservatives question,
question, mind, the supposed wisdom of opening up all public bathrooms to anyone who may want to walk into one. To your average liberal/progressive the questioning is the greater threat.
In regard to the dilemma Robertson states the liberal/progressive left has imposed upon themselves, he is correct. The liberal left is attempting to find some logical means to promote a completely illogical, not to mention heartless, position, that of supporting the LGBT community while also groveling before Islam. What the left in general either does not or refuses to realize is that dichotomy in practice does not lead to enlightenment nor support their position of presumed superiority. It leads to events such as 49 gay people lying dead in an Orlando night-club.
I am not defending everything Robertson has ever said. I am saying that in this case he has a point.
