Related: Pastor preaches that all gay men are “reptilians” & should be put to death“We are called to be led by men,” he said, getting applause, according to WRAL. “God sent women out… when they had to do their thing, but when it was time to face down Goliath, [He] sent David.”“Not Davita, David,” he said. “Not Momma Moses.
Daddy Moses.”Robinson then said that God “knew what he was doing when he made men big and hairy and ugly.”“It’s because you’re supposed to scare away predators, whether they’re in the woods or standing in front of your kids in elementary school,” he said.He was referring to the recent moral panic about elementary school teachers “grooming” children, grooming being a set of acts related to child sex abuse.
Conservatives for months have been saying that mentioning the existence of LGBTQ people in front of children is grooming and pedophilia, a moral panic that has led to teachers losing their jobs and death threats against school board members.In March, Robinson said that anyone talking to a child about LGBTQ people is “doing it to twist that child’s mind” and is “just as much of a groomer as that person was down at that playground.”Robinson has a long history of anti-LGBTQ comments.
Last year he referred to LGBTQ people as “filth.”“I’m saying this now, and I’ve been saying it, and I don’t care who likes it: Those issues have no place in a school.