A conductor--I forget who--once said that Wagner's music had "great moments and awful half-hours".
I don't agree with that assessment at all, though I will grant you that you don't play the "Ring" cycle or "The March of the Valkyries" in a dentist's office.
I mention that comment about Wagner, though, because it applies, in a way, to this segment from Pat Robertson:
In two minutes of sheer loopiness and cluelessness, the Good Reverend had a moment of lucidity: He said he had no problem with someone getting gender reassignment surgery. But then he compares trans people to his horse.
What's truly scary is that the host of the show on which he appears is even more clueless about trans people than he is, if such a thing is possible.
Someone's comment on the You Tube video sums up what I've always thought about Pat Robertson: He is a gay man trapped in a gay man's body. I wish I'd said that!
I don't agree with that assessment at all, though I will grant you that you don't play the "Ring" cycle or "The March of the Valkyries" in a dentist's office.
I mention that comment about Wagner, though, because it applies, in a way, to this segment from Pat Robertson:
In two minutes of sheer loopiness and cluelessness, the Good Reverend had a moment of lucidity: He said he had no problem with someone getting gender reassignment surgery. But then he compares trans people to his horse.
What's truly scary is that the host of the show on which he appears is even more clueless about trans people than he is, if such a thing is possible.
Someone's comment on the You Tube video sums up what I've always thought about Pat Robertson: He is a gay man trapped in a gay man's body. I wish I'd said that!
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