'Father of Christian television': Pat Robertson's death draws reactions from supporters, critics

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor

Mikey Weinstein

Mikey Weinstein of Albuquerque, New Mexico, speaks on behalf of the watchdog organization Military Religious Freedom Foundation during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, December 11, 2006, to call on the Pentagon to launch an investigation into the appearance in a video of senior on-duty U.S. military officers openly promoting their religious commitment while in uniform.
Mikey Weinstein of Albuquerque, New Mexico, speaks on behalf of the watchdog organization Military Religious Freedom Foundation during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, December 11, 2006, to call on the Pentagon to launch an investigation into the appearance in a video of senior on-duty U.S. military officers openly promoting their religious commitment while in uniform. | (Photo: Reuters/Larry Downing)

Michael Weinstein, an attorney and head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, sent out a statement via email, drawing a parallel to 2007 when the Rev. Jerry Falwell died.

"Robertson, like his evil, bigoted colleague Falwell, was a 100% fundamentalist Christian nationalist and repulsively antisemitic, homophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic and misogynistic to the filthy core of his wretched being," stated Weinstein.

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"Our nation is currently embroiled in horribly divisive strife freighted by the very same universal hatred and prejudice that BOTH Falwell and Robertson spewed out everywhere all the time."

Weinstein referenced a time in 2014 when Robertson was quoted as calling him a "little Jewish radical" due to his church and state separation activism.

"America and the world will be far better places without the putrid, unconstitutional, fundamentalist Christian supremacy, triumphalism, domination, exclusivity, and exceptionalism both of those monsters tried to mix into the very fabric of our laws, land, and its inhabitants," Weinstein concluded.

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