American conservative religious commentator Pat Robertson has described modern America’s practice of not stoning homosexuals as “the way it is.”

Robertson’s television show had just aired a story on a Colorado baker who had refused to sell a wedding cake to a gay couple. Robertson took a what would Jesus approach to the situation.

“I think you got to remember from the Bible, if you look carefully at the Bible what would have happened in Jesus’ time if two men decided they wanted to cohabit together, they would have been stoned to death,” Robertson said. “So Jesus would not have baked them a wedding cake nor would he have made them a bed to sleep in because they wouldn’t have been there. But we don’t have that in this country here so that’s the way it is.”

The influential christian broadcaster then went on to describe how gay people and abortionists were sent by the devil.