Let me see if I can articulate what bothers me about this discussion.
I think I understand what you're getting at, Formo: it takes a great deal of courage to stand up for your convictions when you know you are going to get pilloried in the courts of public opinion and in the hearts of your countrymen.
(This, by the way, is why I think your examples of Hitler/suicide bombers/terrorists are inapposite, Gravedigga: unlike Robertson, those people were speaking knowing that a significant fraction of the society that mattered to them supported their position. The same is unlikely to be true of Robertson, because, whatever else one may say about him, he does care about his public reputation in the larger USA population.)
Courage does matter. And courage which is based on one's Christian belief is, for me, particularly so, even when, as here, I think the Christian in profound error as to God's teaching. There's a passage in Romans 14 that I think makes the point well: One man's faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables./The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him./Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own master, he stands or falls...(v. 2-4).
Or, to put it another way, as a Christian, I shouldn't have called Pat Robertson, a fellow "man of faith", a pinhead.
However, I can still judge the act. It may be God's role to decide who is a pinhead, but I can still say, "that was a pinheaded thing to say."
Or "that was a fucking moronic, despicable thing to say."
I watched a sermon by the elder Ed Young last weekend. He was reflecting on Richard Nixon. He spoke of reading the published White House transcripts and discovering the "filth" that came out of the "repulsive" President's mouth over and over again. He spoke of how, after he heard Billy Graham was going to spend Nixon's last night in the White House with him, he wrote Graham "don't do it." And the response came back, "Does a shepherd run away from a sheep when it gets dark?"
God loved Richard Nixon. And He loves Pat Robertson. And asks us, I"m sad to say, for us to do the same.
Even when we think he does despicable things and quotes God to justify his actions. Worrying about what is blasphemous is not our job.
Robertson, the man who is one of God's sheep, shouldn't get kudos OR denigration from us.
Only his acts should get one or the other.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)