Phil Robertson. (YouTube)

Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson, who also stars in CRTV's In the Woods With Phil, told EWTN host Raymond Arroyo that the alarming rates of sexually transmitted diseases indicate how sexually immoral our society has become, as do the 35 to 40 million AIDS deaths worldwide, which were "caused by perversion, that behavior."

During the Oct. 26 edition of The World Over, host Raymond Arroyo asked Robertson, “We’re seeing a slew of women from all over the country coming forward with sexual harassment claims against people such as Harvey Weinstein, now journalists, politicians, people who are in the public eye. Your thoughts on whether this might change the behavior or is the way this is being approached going to lead to just a different manifestation of it?”

Robertson said, “Well, you have to ask a question, you have to say, ‘Folks, can you believe it, there’s rank sexual immorality and perversion coming out of all places – are you all ready – Hollywood, California? Is this a stunner or what?"

Robertson then drew a parallel between all the sexual harassment incidents and the rate of STDs and AIDs deaths to illustrate the extent of "sexual immorality and perversion" in America and worldwide.

“All you have to do is look at the sexually transmitted disease rate," said Robertson, who is also an evangelical preacher. "The Centers for Disease Control – you want to argue with me but look at the Centers for Disease Control, I know their stats, I check them from time to time – 110 million, to answer your question, 110 million Americans at any given time have a sexually transmitted disease."

"Worldwide, almost 40 million – 35 to 40 million – individuals are now deceased because of AIDS, that’s caused by perversion, that [homosexual] behavior," he said.

Robertson continued, "I’m not making this up. You say it’s dangerous to your health – well, yeah. So, to answer your question, just look at the sexually transmitted disease rate and say, you know what, this is really – ‘They receive in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.’ It is really physiologically debilitating."

"So, I think, hopefully, the Weinstein thing, everyone needs to remember, he can be forgiven," said the founder of the Duck Commander Company. "We all can. So it’s not like they’re in a trap that they can’t get out of."

"We remind people, sin’s a problem," he said. "It can really cause you some physical, debilitating diseases. So sin is a problem and physical death comes to us all. We are all going six feet deep in a hole, as surely as I’m sitting here – or cremated and scattered across some pond."

Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. (YouTube)

"Jesus comes down, removes our sin, guarantees we can be raised from the dead by His resurrection," said Robertson. "So I tell people that and say, listen, if you have a better story, what is it?”

Arroyo then said, “Tell it to me, please.”

According to the World Health Organization, since the start of the AIDS epidemic around 1980, "about 35 million people have died from HIV" worldwide. (HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.) In the United States, since 1980, some 675,000 people have died from AIDS, "and even today, nearly 13,000 people with AIDS in the United States die each year."

As for STDs, "More than two million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis were reported in the United States in 2016, the highest number ever, according to the annual Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance Report" released by the CDC on Sept. 26, 2017.

Opportunistic infection caused by HIV/AIDS. (YouTube)

"While anyone who has sex can get an STD, sexually active gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM) are at greater risk," according to the CDC. "In addition to having higher rates of syphilis, more than half of all new HIV infections occur among MSM."

In the UK, the number of syphilis cases jumped 76% between 2012 and 2015, reported The Guardian. Also, the number of gonorrhea cases rose 53%.