Pat Robertson: Alzheimer's Justifies Divorce

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In keeping with the TP audience who cheered letting the non-insured die, here's a so-called religious leader advocating divorce if a spouse develops Alzheimer's.

Pat Robertson: Alzheimer's Justifies Divorce

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson told his "700 Club" viewers that divorcing a spouse with Alzheimer's is justifiable because the disease is "a kind of death."

During the portion of the show where the one-time Republican presidential candidate takes questions from viewers, Robertson was asked what advice a man should give to a friend who began seeing another woman after his wife started suffering from the incurable neurological disorder.

"I know it sounds cruel, but if he's going to do something, he should divorce her and start all over again, but make sure she has custodial care and somebody looking after her," Robertson said.

The chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network, which airs the "700 Club," said he wouldn't "put a guilt trip" on anyone who divorces a spouse who suffers from the illness, but added, "Get some ethicist besides me to give you the answer."

Most Christian denominations at least discourage divorce, citing Jesus' words in the Gospel of Mark that equate divorce and remarriage with adultery.

Terry Meeuwsen, Robertson's co-host, asked him about couples' marriage vows to take care of each other "for better or for worse" and "in sickness and in health."

"If you respect that vow, you say `til death do us part,'" Robertson said during the Tuesday broadcast. "This is a kind of death."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/pat-robertson-divorce-alzheimers_n_963305.html
 
christiefan915 said:
In keeping with the TP audience who cheered letting the non-insured die, here's a so-called religious leader advocating divorce if a spouse develops Alzheimer's.

Pat Robertson: Alzheimer's Justifies Divorce

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson told his "700 Club" viewers that divorcing a spouse with Alzheimer's is justifiable because the disease is "a kind of death."

During the portion of the show where the one-time Republican presidential candidate takes questions from viewers, Robertson was asked what advice a man should give to a friend who began seeing another woman after his wife started suffering from the incurable neurological disorder.

"I know it sounds cruel, but if he's going to do something, he should divorce her and start all over again, but make sure she has custodial care and somebody looking after her," Robertson said.

The chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network, which airs the "700 Club," said he wouldn't "put a guilt trip" on anyone who divorces a spouse who suffers from the illness, but added, "Get some ethicist besides me to give you the answer."

Most Christian denominations at least discourage divorce, citing Jesus' words in the Gospel of Mark that equate divorce and remarriage with adultery.

Terry Meeuwsen, Robertson's co-host, asked him about couples' marriage vows to take care of each other "for better or for worse" and "in sickness and in health."

"If you respect that vow, you say `til death do us part,'" Robertson said during the Tuesday broadcast. "This is a kind of death."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/pat-robertson-divorce-alzheimers_n_963305.html
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Oh, I see. The standard marriage vows which includes "....in sickness and in health", suddenly don't apply, because one partner desires an "easy way out"?????? Goddamn hypocrites. Please don't tell me nothing else about the evangelical scum.
 
poet said:
They don't even see how ridiculous they seem. It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
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The train appears to me to be in a constant state of wrecking, yet these people continue to climb abord.
 
No, he's not just weird, he is a demagogue, espousing dangerous and hateful rhetoric, which some people take to heart.
 
Mr. Robertson is wrong. Much like he was wrong in saying that it was the sinful state of New Orleans....or the United States in general that caused God to send hurricane Katrina. At least I think he was the one who said that. Just because a quasi-religious person has a television show as a platform for talking doesn't make such a person an "expert" in such matter.
 
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Return of Dune said:
For a televangelist this type of hypocrisy is standard fare.
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His religious beliefs make him a little insane....


I have to agree.....its easier and less messy just to get yourself a honey on the side like Bill Clinton and keep the wife too....or slither around the internet like Wiener and look for like minded perverts behind your wife's back.....


Maybe the libs would perfer to just kill the person like they advocated in Terri Schiavo's case....
 
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bravo said:
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His religious beliefs make him a little insane....


I have to agree.....its easier and less messy just to get yourself a honey on the side like Bill Clinton and keep the wife too....or slither around the internet like Wiener and look for like minded perverts behind your wife's back.....


Maybe the libs would perfer to just kill the person like they advocated in Terri Schiavo's case....
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O.K.
 
christiefan915 said:
In keeping with the TP audience who cheered letting the non-insured die, here's a so-called religious leader advocating divorce if a spouse develops Alzheimer's.
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quite the false premise there, don't you think? If I remember right, the TEA party was cheering the individual right to decide his/her own fate, not arbitrarily letting people die.
 
SmarterThanYou said:
quite the false premise there, don't you think? If I remember right, the TEA party was cheering the individual right to decide his/her own fate, not arbitrarily letting people die.
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If Blitzer let the comment about individual rights stand, you'd be right. But when he continued about whether society should just let the person die, that's when it got ugly.

"Are you saying that society should just let him die?" Blitzer pressed Paul. And that's when the audience got involved.

Several loud cheers of "yeah!" followed by laughter could be heard in the Expo Hall at the Florida State Fairgrounds in response to Blitzer's question.

Paul himself disagreed with the audience reaction.
 
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His religious beliefs make him a little insane....


I have to agree.....its easier and less messy just to get yourself a honey on the side like Bill Clinton and keep the wife too....or slither around the internet like Wiener and look for like minded perverts behind your wife's back.....


Maybe the libs would perfer to just kill the person like they advocated in Terri Schiavo's case....
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Dunce:


O.K.
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Who said we couldn't find common ground....:palm:
 
bravo said:
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His religious beliefs make him a little insane....


I have to agree.....its easier and less messy just to get yourself a honey on the side like Bill Clinton and keep the wife too....or slither around the internet like Wiener and look for like minded perverts behind your wife's back.....


Maybe the libs would perfer to just kill the person like they advocated in Terri Schiavo's case....
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:rolleyes: Abhorrent as their (Clinton's and Wiener's) behaviour was, it doesn't come close to breaking the vow "in sickness and in health" because the healthy partner doesn't want to be bothered with the burden of the sickness.

Then again, I recall Newt doing this to his first wife who had cancer and his second wife who had MS, so I guess for you it's par for the course.
 
christiefan915 said:
If Blitzer let the comment about individual rights stand, you'd be right. But when he continued about whether society should just let the person die, that's when it got ugly.

"Are you saying that society should just let him die?" Blitzer pressed Paul. And that's when the audience got involved.

Several loud cheers of "yeah!" followed by laughter could be heard in the Expo Hall at the Florida State Fairgrounds in response to Blitzer's question.

Paul himself disagreed with the audience reaction.
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Well, you realize CNN wouldn't keep out the plants from the left wing that infiltrate all TP gatherings for the purpose of making the right look bad....usually they just let them ask loaded questions but then they are useful idiots in other ways too....
 
bravo said:
Well, you realize CNN wouldn't keep out the plants from the left wing that infiltrate all TP gatherings for the purpose of making the right look bad....usually they just let them ask loaded questions but then they are useful idiots in other ways too....
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LOL, that's pretty lame. We don't need to make the right look bad. They're doing a fine job all by themselves.
 
christiefan915 said:
:rolleyes: Abhorrent as their (Clinton's and Wiener's) behaviour was, it doesn't come close to breaking the vow "in sickness and in health" because the healthy partner doesn't want to be bothered with the burden of the sickness.

Then again, I recall Newt doing this to his first wife who had cancer and his second wife who had MS, so I guess for you it's par for the course.
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In 2011, their daughter, Jackie Gingrich Cushman, said that it was her mother who requested the divorce, that it happened prior to the hospital stay (which was for the removal of a benign tumor, not cancer), and that Gingrich's visit was for the purpose of bringing the couple's children to see their mother, not to discuss the divorce...

Newt and his second wife, Marianne Ginther separated in June 1987 lived in separate residences for six years...reconciled and then Newt filed for divorce in 1999.
So it wasn't as if the marriage was ever stable....

I don't believe Ginther ever developed MS but some clown named Mickey Porter claimed she had a "neurological condition that could lead to MS".....
I never seen any proof of this claim at all......

But I'm sure you won't let the truth or the facts of the matter sway your own beliefs....
The left is expert at destroying peoples lives and reputations with lies and innuendo...there is no gutter so deep that won't climb into to smear a perceived enemy.....
Like you....
 
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