Anti-gay TV presenter claims he cured critic’s homosexuality with basketball tickets
By Ryan Love
Anti-gay TV host David Benham has claimed that he helped a gay man renounce his homosexuality by buying him tickets to a basketball game.
David and his twin brother Jason were axed from the US cable TV network Home & Garden Television (HGTV), after it emerged that at least one of the pair holds anti-choice and anti-gay views.
Having protested against Pride marches and claimed that homosexuality is a “demonic ideology taking our universities and our public school systems”, David has now revealed details of how he dealt with one man who was initially criticial of their views.
“We had so many people from the gay community reaching out to us and one man in particular from the city of Chicago reached out and he said things to me that made me lose my appetite,” The Blaze quotes him as telling the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Nashville, Tennessee.
“But I simply responded in love. After a little conversation back and forth, I found out he loved baseball and I got him tickets to a Cubs game.
“He shot me a Facebook post and said, ‘I was not expecting that and I’ve been thinking a lot about this. I’ve chosen to walk away from my lifestyle’.”
The story reportedly received a round of applause from the crowd.
The brothers went on to claim that America has begun to “slowly turn out back on God”, before speaking about the controversy that led to their property series being axed.
“Love filled our heart. We had absolutely no hatred. What God needs most is a simple voice for truth,” David concluded.
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