Today on “The 700 Club,” Pat Robertson once again warned that the U.S. will face divine punishment if gay marriage becomes legal nationwide.

After recounting a story about how one Catholic archbishop threatened to close Georgetown University rather than allow students to establish a gay affinity group, Robertson said that opponents of gay rights are “the victims of hate speech and hate activity” all over the country.

Robertson said that this purported persecution in the U.S. is much like when a group of men tried to rape angels in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah: “Who was on top, who was controlling things? It was the homosexuals. But who had the last word? It was God Almighty when he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.”