Pat Robertson: if your wife has Alzheimer's, divorce her
Posted on Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 10:53 AM
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The troubled husband wrote to Robertson for advice on the right thing to do?
Divorce your wife, Robertson replied, but make sure she has 'somebody' to look after her, and then move on with your new life partner.
If you ever needed proof that Robertson has never understood love - straight or gay - there it is.
There's some Christian values for you. I'm sure Jesus, who Pat speaks for, would have told you the same (between sending hurricanes and droughts to punish the homosexuals).
If you only do one thing today, make sure it's to watch this short ABC clip, it'll break your heart:
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JohnKinMD | Sep 17, 2011, 03:33 PM EDT
If you look again he said if the man was going to see other women then he should get a divorce.
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EphraimKibbey | Sep 17, 2011, 03:07 PM EDT
*** Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
*** Matthew 7:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
*** Matthew 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
*** This sounds like one more thorn preached by another false prophet.
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AngelPrecious | Sep 17, 2011, 03:05 PM EDT
@Mike: That is a problem with Protestants; they become their own teaching authority. They take snippets out of Scripture to support the craziest ideas!
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MikeB74 | Sep 17, 2011, 02:27 PM EDT
I am shocked! I am a Catholic and a Knights of Columbus Fourth Degree and for Pat Robertson who
himself is suppost to be a man of God to tell a man to do that to his alling wife is wrong! Our Lord Jesus Christ would of never told any person to divorce and leave there spouse if they have alzheimer's or any other illness. Christ would of said to stay wih your spouse love him or her and help them though there illness no matter what. I don't know where Pat Robertson's mind is at? He is making our Lord look bad and that's wrong! He really just spoke out of turn and that's a shame.
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McNamara31 | Sep 17, 2011, 02:07 PM EDT
hollabackgurl... My thoughts exactly as I viewed Robertson's comments. Also I think Robertson has a lot to learn (and most of us have alot to admire) in the last couple on the video, where the husband spends each night with his wife in the nursing home comforting her and singing her t sleep.They broke the mold when they made this wonderful guy!
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JBRAFTREE | Sep 17, 2011, 01:43 PM EDT
It's a lose-lose situation, but stay with her or him 'til the end.
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PatriciaMarya | Sep 17, 2011, 12:12 PM EDT
Right on, hollabackgurl - it was my same reaction when I was confronted with this: would he give the same advice to a female? By the way, should the freed hubby get the proceeds of his afflicted wife’s life insurance policy when she passes or does/do the caregiver(s), hopefully her children, receive it? After all, he has moved on, right? Can’t have it both ways now, can we? Pat Robertson is also the man who giggled with his TV co-hort in reacting to the Arizona shooting tragedy of Rep. Giffords - commenting that the Glock is a "sweet little weapon, easy to handle." Again, in seeing the pixs of the 2010 Boxing Day Blizzard here in NYC, he laughingly taunted Climate Change, saying "where is that Warming now?" I close one of my poems with "If I was a dictator, I would pompously, publically, piously practice my religion - that way no one would notice my private deals with the Devil." Says it all about this dude, eh?
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colkelley | Sep 17, 2011, 12:01 PM EDT
Aw, crap...again I hate to find myself in one of those RARE occasions in which I find myself in agreement with Cahir. As an atheist I would NEVER follow Robertson's "Christian love" advice in that circumstance.
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hollabackgurl | Sep 17, 2011, 11:31 AM EDT
And I'm sorry but I'm going to trust what I have just seen and heard with my own eyes to his supporters trying to tell me I missed something.
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hollabackgurl | Sep 17, 2011, 11:25 AM EDT
Robertson's remarks are not taken out of context. They are the opinion of a man who looks at every situation he's ever encountered and asks himself: what's best for the heterosexual man in this equation?
No mention of what a woman should do in the same situation - I bet you he'll tell her to look after her husband.
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Porickseantuny | Sep 17, 2011, 11:24 AM EDT
hard to judge a presentation without the whole thing. Sort of like a dangling participle. You don't know the whole sentence.
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1IrishMedic | Sep 17, 2011, 11:04 AM EDT
Robertson is out of touch with humanity and always has been, the a**hole.
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aobrien1 | Sep 17, 2011, 11:02 AM EDT
I suspect this has been taken out of context. The clip came from People for the American Way, which is a notoriously left-wing group founded by Norman Lear, and which looks for any excuse to make conservatives look bad. Pat Robertson was just starting to talk about marriage vows when the clip ended. On the surface it does sound awful, and I hold entirely with "until death do us part", but I don't think we got the whole story here.
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christilcaugh | Sep 17, 2011, 10:49 AM EDT
The pain this man has caused over the years in the name of Jesus is terrible. He cares for no one other than himself.
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