This is some of the most un-sage parenting advice we've ever heard.
On Thursday's installment of "The 700 Club," Pat Robertson told the mother of a 17-year-old who identifies as a lesbian to love her daughter, but to make sure she knows she doesn't "accept the lifestyle," Right Wing Watch reports.
"Many young people... don't really know what they're talking about, because they're too young to know," the conservative televangelist said. "Young girls have crushes, and they have crushes on their teachers and they have crushes on other girls as well as boys. That’s one of those things that happens, but that’ll get differentiated as she gets older."
Still, he warned the mother not to let her daughter get "wrapped up in that lifestyle" because "she may never get out of it."
Robertson's statement isn't particularly surprising given his penchant for offering parents narrow-minded advice with regard to their gay and lesbian kids. In 2015, he advised two parents to skip their child's same-sex wedding, and told another mother to treat her son, who had just come out as gay, the same way she'd treat a drug addict.
In November, he applauded a grandfather for barring his gay grandson from bringing a boyfriend to Thanksgiving dinner, oddly likening the request to inviting a stripper to a holiday celebration.
Guess a new year won't stop Robertson from spewing the same tired, homophobic rhetoric we've come to expect from him.
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