Just when you think you've heard it all from this evil troll who claims to be some sort of Christian prophet, Pat Robertson, is now absolving his flock
of opposite gender divorce if it gets too inconvenient due to sickness.
Follow the promise made in the marriage vows of "in sickness and in
health?" Nah, not if you are in a Fundamentalist Christian endorsed
opposite sex marriage.
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."
Can you just imagine the
judgment that would be rained down upon our LGBT community if we
claimed divorce was justified if our spouses became ill to the point it
became inconvenient to stay with them? Robertson is right in one
respect; it most certainly sounds cruel. In fact, I would go so far to
say it is selfish, self centered and cruel to divorce one's spouse if
the one who is ill has not made any kind of provision to release the
other from that promised to be there in sickness and in health.
The only way I could
begin to justify divorce due to sickness is if the two came to an
understanding initiated by the sick spouse that the healthy partner was
to move on with their lives when the sick person became incapacitated.
Of course, we have to remember this exhortation to dodge the matrimonial
promises comes from Pat Robertson who claims it is a sin to not follow
the Bible's every word and commandment which leads us to some major
hypocrisy.
Robertson speculates
that having Alzheimer's is "a kind of death," which would seem at odds
with the the hue and cry he raised over the Terri Schiavo case.
Pat
Robertson echoed Dobson's statements. "The judiciary is out of
control," he told the network, adding that he hopes Republicans use the
so-called "nuclear option" to stop [liberal/progressive] fillibustering
that has prevented the naming of several high-level judges who are not
committed to liberalism and rewriting the constitution of the United
States--judges who are not committed to making evil good and good evil.
Previously, Robertson had said the judicial rulings in the Terri Schiavo case amounted to "judicial execution."
Added the evangelist: "A convicted cop-killer wouldn't have gotten treatment like this. It's outrageous."
So, if you are brain dead then you aren't dead, but if you have Altheimer's you are dead?
Nice defender of marriage.
