On yesterday’s “Hagee Hotline,” Matthew Hagee told a viewer who could not “understand how homosexuals can truly feel like they’re walking with the Lord” that gay people are deceived by the Devil. Hagee asserted that Satan is “the Father of Lies” and has “created a world of deception,” warning that gay marriage will lead to the collapse of society.

“Marriage between a man and a woman is how families are created,” Hagee said. “Families are required to support an economy. If you do not have a culture that is producing more children than people who are in need of the resources of that society, then you have a culture that is virtually dying. Whenever you create a platform that degrades marriage and enables same-sex unions, you are taking away the ability of that society to survive. These are simple facts”: