Showing posts with label pat robertson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pat robertson. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Is Spring Arbor More Extreme than Pat Robertson?

Pat Robertson is often quoted in the media as an "extremist" Christian for some of the things he says. Personally, I don't know much about what he says except the stuff that gets trotted out by the media. So, I was quite suprised to find something on the internet suggesting that Pat Robertson wasn't against gender reassignment surgery (though he is not for it either). Here is a question and answer from the 700 Club's website (emphasis added):

"Q: I have a friend that I have known since we were kids who has considered getting a sex change. Is it wrong and a sin for a person to change their sex from being male to female or from being female to male?

A: Such an option did not exist in the Bible. Nobody could ever do such a thing. It is very radical surgery. They literally change organs from male to female and vice versa. It’s pretty traumatic. And on top of that, they shoot the person full of the various hormones, either estrogen or testosterone, to make it happen. Is it a sin? I can’t say it’s a sin, because I don’t have any biblical authority one way or the other. But the Bible says wherever you were when you came to the Lord, you stay that way. I think that probably would be closer to it, what the apostle Paul said. But I can’t pontificate on this one, but I do feel sorry for those that are in that condition."

I'm not sure what verse he is trying to bring up at the end there, but I found it interesting that Pat Robertson would have a fairly moderate stance on this issue. It seems he made an effort to research the issue before he answered, and came to a very different position than Spring Arbor's so-called Biblical position.