By Hamish Balfour

Just when you thought people on the far-right have reached the depths of their lunacy, they managed to top themselves.

Many Evangelical preachers have been looking for a scapegoat for COVID-19. They’ve already blamed it on gays and claimed it was a sign of the end of the world. Some Evangelicals don’t even believe the disease is real and have stubbornly refused to practice social distancing.

But now fundie fossil Pat Robertson has weighed in with an even more ridiculous theory.

During an appearance on “The 700 Club,” Robertson blamed the coronavirus on oral sex.

“Some of these young uns are doing all kinds of unnatural things with their sex organs,” said Robertson. “When people do that, they transfer all kinds of chemicals from ladies’ private parts and that’s where I think the virus came from. We never had this kind of thing when I was coming up. But no one was committing oral sex back then.”

Robertson previously blamed 9/11 on witches and lesbians.

Conspiracy theories and other tomfoolery are rife among fundies these days. However, preacher Rick Wiles is among the worst of them. Wiles is a homophobe and bigot, as well as being a conspiracy theorist. According to Right Wing Watch, he recently celebrated the death of a gay lawyer who died of the coronavirus. Wiles claimed it was a sign that COVID-19 was punishment from God.

“He was a senior lawyer for the LGBT Bar Association of New York,” Wiles said. “The lawyers who sue churches, the lawyers who sue ministries … one of their senior lawyers for the gay rights movement died today in New York City of the coronavirus. There is a judgment, I’m telling you, a plague is underway. Get under the blood of Jesus Christ. Do not be in opposition to the Lord Jesus Christ and his church!” said Wiles.