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obamanut2012

(26,154 posts)
Thu Aug 16, 2012, 02:22 PM Aug 2012

Pat Robertson: Be Careful About Adopting Children

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thu, 08/16/2012 - 1:46pm

It amazes us that viewers continue to write in to "The 700 Club" seeking Pat Robertson's advice on how to deal with their problems, especially since he's lately been staking out some rather questionable positions, like telling a man to divorce his wife who is suffering from Alzheimer's.

Today a woman wrote in wanting to know why the men she dated always broke up with her when they found out that she had three children that had been adopted from foreign countries, which prompted Pat to declare that it was "because a man doesn't want to take on the United Nations" and that, in general, people should be careful about adopting children because "you just never know what's been done to a child before you get that child; what kind of sexual abuse there has been, what kind of cruelty, what kind of food deprivation" that might cause them to grow up "weird."

Robertson went on to explain that people should be willing to help orphans, as he does, "but that doesn't necessarily mean that I want to take all the orphans around the world into my home" before finally seeming to realize that he was just digging a deeper hole for himself and attempting to change the subject, declaring "I'm in trouble":

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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/more-solid-advice-pat-robertson-be-careful-about-adopting-children


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Pat really needs to actually read the Gospels of Jesus Christ.

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Pat Robertson: Be Careful About Adopting Children (Original Post) obamanut2012 Aug 2012 OP
Help the children but don't touch them for goodness sakes! Lone_Star_Dem Aug 2012 #1
i imagine every adoptive parent naturally has such fears Enrique Aug 2012 #2
I want to tell him Ted Bundy wasn't adopted obamanut2012 Aug 2012 #5
Pat Robertson is proof that if there is a God he doesn't give a rip what happens on Earth. A Erose999 Aug 2012 #3
by the way, my all-time favorite advice from Pat Enrique Aug 2012 #4
What to say!!! obamanut2012 Aug 2012 #6

Lone_Star_Dem

(28,158 posts)
1. Help the children but don't touch them for goodness sakes!
Thu Aug 16, 2012, 02:25 PM
Aug 2012

Whatever you do don't offer them a loving home, and a real chance at a decent future. Bigots may not want to associate with you if you do something as insane as that, don't you know.

Enrique

(27,461 posts)
2. i imagine every adoptive parent naturally has such fears
Thu Aug 16, 2012, 02:28 PM
Aug 2012

and if they end up adopting, they have gotten over those fears. Pat is just telling everyone to give in to their fears, and I don't see a purpose for doing that.

Erose999

(5,624 posts)
3. Pat Robertson is proof that if there is a God he doesn't give a rip what happens on Earth. A
Thu Aug 16, 2012, 02:28 PM
Aug 2012

merciful, benevolent God wouldn't let a charlatan like Pat continue damaging society in his name.

Enrique

(27,461 posts)
4. by the way, my all-time favorite advice from Pat
Thu Aug 16, 2012, 02:30 PM
Aug 2012

someone asked him, I was at my friend's house and they had a statue of Buddha, what should I do? Pat's advice: smash the statue on the floor. I kid you not.

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