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As someone who professes to be a Christian (though I am far from exemplary in my attempts to be one), I find what he said to be destestable.
I will speak up and say I do not agree with it. I will speak up and say I wish he would come out and say how wrong he was to even suggest such a thing. I will say that I am saddened that he is held up as a voice of those who supposedly speak for Christians.
I think the media bestows certain status on willing individuals to become "spokesmen" for "their cause" or "their race". Jesse Jackson. Pat Robertson. Patricia Ireland. They are most often completely out of step with what the majority of who they are supposed to be speaking for believe or want. It is an attempt to quantify into segments various portions of the populace. "All Christians think like this" or "all women want this" or "all black people believe this". It is racism, sexism, and....religion-ism to to a despicable degree.
I reject what Robertson said, as I would suspect a tremendous majority of Christians do. As someone who has been portrayed as speaking for for folks like me, I am afraid that he makes me and everyone else striving to be Christian look like lunatics.
Edited to add: ah, never mind. I can't word it properly.
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