Pat Robertson on Sex-Change Operations: 'I Don't Think There's Any Sin Associated With That'

First the pot thing, now this

Pat Robertson turns out to be fairly progressive on the whole transgender thing. The relevant part of the video starts at 2:29:

[Via John Aravosis.]

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[Fist of Etiquette]

All those 2000 pound leg presses have caused a stroke.

[SIV]

Christian shemale weed parties. Sounds downright libertine.

[Free Society]

Rick Santorum's nightmare or ultimate fantasy, but probably a fantasy.

[CampingInYourPark]

I don't know how I would have gone through the day without knowing what Pat Robertson thinks about sex change operations.

[Ted S.]

You won't have to think about it if they publish the AM Links on time.

[some guy]

Wait, is this the same guy who thinks gays attract hurricanes?

[Ted S.]

Name all the hurricanes after men, and they'll never make it past the Virgin Islands.

[RBS]

How long have you been waiting to use that one?

[some guy]

But then the Virgin Islands won't be virgin for long.

[Neoliberal Kochtopus]

But...but...that doesn't conform to the stereotype. How will Jezebel write a "humorous" article about this?!

[Neoliberal Kochtopus]

Ha. I didn't even know this, but it looks like they they can't.

[RBS]

That's not going to stop them from making snarky comments though.

[mr simple]

They actually have a section of that site entitled "Groupthink?" So they advertise what we consider weakness. Weird.

[Heroic Mulatto]

SOLIDARITY!!!!!!!

[Doctor Whom]

Sometimes the mask slips. Sometimes it just ends up in the trash.

[SugarFree]

So he's finally on the same page as Iranian mullahs. Hooray?

[Neoliberal Kochtopus]

Yeah, except for that whole forced surgery thing. NBD.

[SugarFree]

Who knows what sexual orifices Pat Robertson would make you install if he could...

[Neoliberal Kochtopus]

I have sudden visions of the Joozians from South Park. Weird how that came to mind.

[Jose Chung]

So it's cool for a man to have sex with another man as long as he submits to surgical genital mutilation first? Seems Pat would be arguing that people are born particular gender and changing that would be going against "God's Plan," or something.

[Neoliberal Kochtopus]

Yeah, it would seem that way if you don't listen to what he said.

[Zeb]

God works in mysterious ways to confound the wise.

[C. S. P. Schofield]

I'm afraid I have to disagree. There IS a sin involved. It isn't committed by the person undergoing the operation, however. The sinner is the surgeon, or whoever convinced the patient that having surgically damaged genitalia will be better than having functional ones that feel wrong.

Someday, and probably sooner than later, it will be possible to actually change sexes. That will be interesting. In the meantime I have a distaste for vultures who prey on hope.

[Apatheist ?_??]

Someday, and probably sooner than later, it will be possible to actually change sexes. That will be interesting. In the meantime I have a distaste for vultures who prey on hope.

Not likely, the current methods of surgery and hormone therapy will just get better. There may be some gene therapy but they are going to be able to just cut the Y chromosome out.

Still don't see how it possibly could be a sin to perform consensual surgery.

[Apatheist ?_??]

they are not going to be able to just cut them out.

[timepatch]

The surgery for someone to go from male to female is already good enough to the point a doctor doing a cursory examination can't tell the difference, so I would be wary of telling someone they have false about it.

[timepatch]

^false hope about it

also - gender is way more than just the X and the Y. I don't mean social construct nonsense, I mean biologically - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.....d_theories

[Apatheist ?_??]

I'm with you, Schofield has no idea what he is talking about.

[Hey, you!]

"Someday, and probably sooner than later, it will be possible to actually change sexes."

Sweet! I always wanted my own pair of boobs.