Pat Robertson was quite perturbed by a “700 Club” viewer who asked him why some Christians believe that they should have a right to “refuse service to others because they don’t agree with their lifestyle,” telling the televangelist that such actions won’t “bring them closer to Jesus.”
“You’re really mixed up,” Robertson said. “We are not supposed to endorse people’s sin.”
He explained that while restaurants should not discriminate against customers looking for a meal whether they’re “gay or blue or pink or whatever they are,” Christians must draw the line when the customers ask: “will you please participate in my ungodly lifestyle?”
Robertson insisted that Jesus would also refuse service to such people, adding that Paul the Apostle said “if somebody gives you meat and doesn’t say anything about it, then you eat the meat; but if he says ‘this is meat offered to idols,’ then you don’t eat it because you don’t want to participate in idol worship.”
Ironically, Paul said in his letter to the Corinthians that Christians actually are permitted to eat “food sacrificed to idols” as long as they are strong in their faith that “there is but one God”: “food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.”
