On “The 700 Club” today, Pat Robertson declared that the existence of gay-friendly churches is a sign that we have reached the “last stage of Gentile world apostasy.”

Robertson was responding to a question from a viewer who wanted to know how someone who is gay could consider themselves to be a Christian, saying that such a person must be “misguided and a hypocrite.”

“There have been gay churches for many years,” Robertson responded. “They have communion, they do all kinds of things, they have gay pastors and so forth and they’ll tell you that, yes, they love Jesus and all this. The truth is, if you read Romans, the last stage of Gentile world apostasy has to do with rampant homosexuality.”

This is the point we have currently reached, Robertson added, and “it’s a shame.”