Romney: Pat Robertson ‘Strengthens And Nurtures The Pillars Of Our Country’

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/05/robertson-romney/

Romney: Pat Robertson ‘Strengthens And Nurtures The Pillars Of Our Country’

Former governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) delivered the commencement address today at Pat Robertson’s Regent University, praising the televangelist who has repeatedly spouted hateful and bigoted remarks.

From the excerpts of Romney’s speech released this morning: “This university, its students, its alumni and the faculty serve as an example of Dr. Robertson’s dedication to strengthening and then nurturing the pillars of this community and our country: education, fellowship, and advancement.”

Some examples of how Robertson “strengthens” and “nurtures” education and advancement in our country:

Robertson on the vote in Dover, PA in support of evolution science:

I’d like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don’t turn to God, you just rejected Him from your city.

Robertson on September 11:

Two days after the terrorist attacks, Mr. Robertson held a conversation with Jerry Falwell on Mr. Robertson’s TV show “The 700 Club.” Mr. Falwell laid blame for the attack at the feet of “the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians,” not to mention the A.C.L.U. and People for the American Way. “Well, I totally concur,” said Mr. Robertson.

Robertson on Islam:

I believe it’s motivated by demonic power. It is satanic and it’s time we recognize what we’re dealing with. … he goal of Islam, ladies and gentlemen, whether you like it or not, is world domination.

Robertson on former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s stroke:

Robertson suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s recent stroke was the result of Sharon’s policy, which he claimed is “dividing God’s land.”

Robertson on assassinating Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez:

I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it.

Robertson on the federal judiciary being a greater threat than al Qaeda:

Q: You’ve said that Liberals are engaged in an all-out assault on Christianity…and that the out-of-control judiciary, and this was in your last book “Courting Disaster” is the most serious threat America has faced in nearly 400 years of history, more serious than al Qaeda, more serious than Nazi Germany and Japan, more serious than the Civil War?

Pat Robertson: George, I really believe that.

Filed under: Radical Right

[Lobster Martini]

1. Among the people I know, Pat Robertson doesn't strengthen anyone' s pillar.

If you know what I mean.

[PurpleChez]

2. How can anyone not think that this man is a pig?

He is an insult to every person of good will, whether or not they are a person of faith.

[musette_sf]

3. i thought that was Deborah Palfrey n/t

[DawnIsis]

4. Liberals are more of a threat than the Nazis? Our candidates need to be very worried about these

crazy zealots showing their "patriotism" and assassinating them.

All of these people should be tried with treason for declaring war on half of this country.

[Snarkoleptic]

5. Ignorance is the only thing this ass-clown strengthens and nurtures

But then again, this is the type of crap that 'the base' wants to hear...

"You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist."

When speaking about plastic surgery, he said (while pulling back the corners of his eyes) "...got the eyes like they're Oriental".

He also did a great job keeping the sheeple in fear by describing how God told him about terror attacks that will happen on US soil in 2007 "The Lord didn't say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that."

[msongs]

6. here is what pat robertson says about Mormons:

"A cult is any group that has a form of godliness, but does not recognize Jesus Christ as the unique son of God."....."One test of a cult is that it often does not strictly teach that Jesus is the only begotten Son of God who Himself is God manifested in the flesh."......"Christian-oriented cults include the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), the Worldwide Church of God, Christian Science, Unity, Unitarianism, The Way International, Rosicrucian Society of America, Bahai, Hare Krishna, Scientology, the Unification Church, and the Jehovah's Witnesses."
--CBN pamphlet entitled "Cults," dated 1992

from gainesvillehumanists.org site.

evidently pat does not think the book of mormon fell out of the sky one night so the mormon church founder could just happen to find it
lying around waiting for him.


Msongs
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[muntrv]

7. If you consider hatred and violence pillars, then it is true.

[Monk06]

8. Pat Robertson. I accept Jesus Christ as my personal savior. He saves me from paying taxes.