| 13 May 1971 |
President Richard M. Nixon: "I don't want to see this country to go that way. You know what happened to the Greeks. Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo, we all know that, so was Socrates. [...] Do you know what happened to the Romans? The last six Roman emperors were fags. [...] You know what happened to the popes? It's all right that popes were laying the nuns. That's been going on for years -- centuries. But when the popes, when the Catholic Church went to hell in -- I don't know, three or four centuries ago -- it was homosexual, and it had to be cleaned out. Now, that's what happened to Britain; it happened earlier to France." |
| 25 Apr 1977 |
McDonald's Corporation requests an injunction forbidding former Ronald and recently outed queer Bob Brandon from dressing as Ronald McDonald or implying in any way that the spokesclown is homosexual. |
| 20 Jun 1990 |
On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "Many observers say that AIDS is the hammer and gun of the homosexual movement, an effective vehicle to propel the homosexual agenda throughout every phase of our society." |
| 17 Sep 1992 |
On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "It's one thing to say, 'We have rights to jobs... we have rights to be left alone in out little corner of the world to do our thing.' It's an entirely different thing to say, 'Well, we're not only going to go into the schools and we're going to take your children and your grandchildren and turn them into homosexuals.' Now that's wrong." |
| 1993 |
In an interview with Molly Ivins, Pat Robertson declares: "Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history." |
| 21 Jan 1993 |
On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "Many of those people involved with Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals -- the two things seem to go together." |
| 14 Sep 1993 |
Televangelist Pat Robertson tells the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media, and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians." |
| 18 Jan 1995 |
On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "[Homosexuals] want to come into churches and disrupt church services and throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the face of ministers." |
| 6 Jun 1997 |
The San Francisco Chronicle quotes the Dalai Lama as saying: "Homosexuality, whether it is between men or between women, is
not improper in itself. What is improper is the use of organs [such as] the mouth or the anus... already defined as inappropriate for sexual contact." |
| 8 Nov 1997 |
President Bill Clinton speaks at a dinner sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay rights organization. It is the first time an American president has so addressed a gathering of sodomites. |
| 18 May 1999 |
On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything. Homosexuals are riding high in the media. For example, in the Cayman Islands, which is a British colony or whatever they call it now -- it's an independent thing -- in order to establish full relationships with England, England is insisting that they recognize homosexuals and the Cayman Islands are saying: 'We're Christians and we'd rather not do it.' And in Scotland you can't believe how strong the homosexuals are. It's just simply unbelievable. And so as far as the vestiges of John Knox and some of these heroes, I don't think it exists any more. And what could happen? It could go right back to the darkness very easily." |
| 1 Jan 2002 |
In the mountain resort town of Abha, three Saudis are publicly beheaded with a sword because they "committed acts of sodomy, married each other, seduced young men, and attacked those who rebuked them." |
| 14 Oct 2003 |
On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "Every society which has embraced homosexuality -- normalized it, legitimized it, et cetera, embraced it as part of their culture -- every one of those societies has gone down in flames. And if we want to destroy the United States of America, take it down, this is the best way to do it. So the homosexuals will have managed to win what's known as a pyrrhic victory -- they may win their temporary battle, but they'll lose the war 'cause they will destroy the society, and that's happening." |
| 14 Oct 2003 |
In Sioux City, Iowa, Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry declares: "The homosexual movement is making incredible headway right now, they really are... You don't say, 'Oh, we are going to reward violent anal sex with the covenant of marriage.'" |
| 16 Mar 2004 |
Rhea County commissioner J.C. Fugate introduces a motion to ask the Tennessee state legislature to make homosexuality a crime against nature. The motion passes 8-0. After staff is instructed to draft an ordinance banning gays from living within Rhea County, Fugate explains, "We need to keep them out of here." |