Pat Robertson: If a man's wife has Alzheimer's, "he should divorce her and start all over"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

September 14, 2011 02:30 PM
Pat Robertson Says to Divorce Your Wife If She's Terminally Ill

By Tina Dupuy

http://crooksandliars.com/tina-dupuy/pat-robertson-says-divorce-if-your-wife

We'll call this "The Full Gingrich." Yes, love, honor, obey - and ditch when they get sick.

Finally Pat Robertson has come out on the side of the suffering - just like Christ. Those suffering with having a wife who's no longer up to snuff.

Asked what a man should do whose wife has Alzheimer's, an increasingly decrepit Pat Robertson says, "I know it sounds cruel but if he's going to do something, he should divorce her and start all over."

In a week of Republicans cheering for record executions and wooing for the uninsured to drop dead - does this even get a blip on our disgust radar?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. It sure as Hell gets a blip on MINE.

Just when I think I cannot absolutely be any more disgusted with those people...

They prove how wrong I am.

ICK.


On edit: Left out Hell...

[FiveGoodMen]

2. "For richer or richer...

in health and in health...
for better or else..."

Amen.

[Mariana]

3. That's what a MAN should do if his spouse has Alzheimers.

I bet his answer is a little different if he's talking about a WOMAN whose spouse has Alzheimers.

[avaistheone1]

9. Bingo!

Bet you are correct.

Pat is big OL' HYPOCRITE.

[my2sense]

13. +1

[BlancheSplanchnik]

37. Oh how I WISH someone asked him that , so he'd spell it out in black and white.

WE know, but important distinctions like that rarely get articulated publicly.

[femrap]

41. He's a complete

maggot. Maybe his wife (if he has one...poor woman) will see fit to leave him.

[abelenkpe]

44. +1000 nt

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

4. Gee, I bet Nancy Reagan will love that sentiment

Also funny how these were the same folks who wanted the government make all the decisions regarding the Schiavos' marriage.

[KansDem]

5. Sounds like Newt Gingrich's "spiritual adviser." (nt)

[alp227]

33. really could have been! I was thinking about Gingrich too! n/t

[HockeyMom]

6. What about the REVERSE?

My 63 year old HUSBAND has all these medical issue and I don't. Should I leave HIM because I am as strong as horse? Maybe not. I am am old woman and cannot make BABIES any more.

[monmouth]

7. Friend of mines mother was in a nursing home for Alzheimer's. A lovely

woman, devoted wife and mother. I just loved her. One day I went with my friend and her father for a visit. It was all very nice but we all knew she didn't really know us. A man came up to her and took her by the hand and they walked off, her waving good-bye to us. I asked who the man was and both my friend and her father stated "That's her boyfriend." I was stunned but they had been educated about the ramifications of this horrid disease and just lived with it.

[StatGirl]

42. That happened with Sandra Day O'Connor's husband, too

To her credit, she chose to be happy for him. I would choose that, as well, if I were in her situation. That's just accepting reality.

Further, if I were ever so in the grip of Alzheimer's that I did not recognize my own husband, I hope he would also find someone to make him happy.

[pnorman]

8. I thought may have been some malicious paraphrasing here, but not so!

http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctliveblog/archives/2011/09/pat_robertson_s.html

[enough]

10. See recent DU discussion of this story here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x616381

[joeybee12]

11. Pat Robertson is a phucked up POS...although that's hardly news to anyone...knr

[AsahinaKimi]

12. Meh..

Robertson wa kichigai desuyou!

[WhiteShoesATL]

14. lol Pat R. is a cold pimp

Pat Robertson aint got time for no kinda sick bitches!! lol

these dude is cold. him n Newt G. his wife got cancer and he said he doesnt have time for
no kinda sickly bitches

[dsc]

15. that is a little bit unfair

He was saying that before one had an affair he should divorce her.

[Capitalocracy]

16. Not to mention when they're barren! nt

[OHdem10]

17. What would have happened if Nanxy Reagan had done that

to President Reagan. What ever happened to "In sickness
and in health".

Sounds like Pat might be due an exam himself?

[WinkyDink]

18. It's the Gingrich Marital Vow.

[baldguy]

19. Isn't this warped, frustrated old man dead yet?

If there was a God...

[lindysalsagal]

27. He is dead. He's also still on the air.

:crazy:

[NMMNG]

20. It is cruel

But not at all surprising from a RRRWer. They spew endlessly about the sanctity of life, marriage and family, but when you get right down to it they really don't give a shit. Individual humans are just dispensable cogs in the machines of their lives. Whenever one gets used up they just toss it and get another one.

[izquierdista]

21. Does it work the other way, Pat?

If a woman's husband is a crinkle-faced blowhard, should she divorce him? And take away his diamond mine?

[sarcasmo]

22. According to Pat, I should have left my wife three years and four months ago.

[beac]

28. .

:hug:

Clearly, you understand the "in sickness and in health" part a little better than so-called Christian Robertson.

[hlthe2b]

23. on that score, Pat should have been declared brain dead long ago...

Geebus... Detestable man.

[SpiralHawk]

24. Snuff the sick wife = Repbublicon Family Cesspool Values

You cannot go any lower

[TwilightGardener]

25. Come on, now. You don't snuff her out. That would be wrong.

Instead, you swing by the nursing home every once in a while, on your way to taking your new lady friend out to dinner and a movie.

[saras]

36. True. The right nursing home will snuff her plenty fast enough.

[fascisthunter]

26. this man NEVER felt love before in his life, nor can he

it's a sad truth about sociopaths... they think they know what love is, but it is impossible for them to feel. And since they can never fill that void with caring, and sharing, they fill it with money, crime, deceit, theft, etc.

[treestar]

29. And he's blatantly leaving a gender double standard

Would not be a surprise if he thinks the wife should stay with the husband so afflicted.

[TygrBright]

30. So, Pat, does that mean yer wife should file papers? n/t

[unkachuck]

31. what happened to....

....'until death do us part'?

"I know it sounds cruel but if he's going to do something, he should divorce her and start all over."

....pat, why would you say something like that? I thought you pukes had an abiding god-fearing loyalty to your partners....I can see some godless Commie saying, 'Dump the bitch.', but you pat?

[Octafish]

32. What about wives? Should they dump hubby if he is struck by Alzheimer's?

For the record: Pat's wife was pregnant when they got married -- not that there's anything wrong with that. Remember, Pat?

[Mz Pip]

43. She should divorce Pat

He's clearly brain dead.

[Octafish]

46. She shudda dumped the Korean war chicken...

...like he dumped his platoon on the way to the fighting.

Then Marine Lt. Pete McCloskey witnessed the brain dead SOB do it.

[WhiteTara]

34. He was Gingrich's Pastor?

:shrug: They certainly have the same philosophy.

[saras]

35. Start over where? A marriage? Serious dating? Drunken frat bashes? Wanking in mom's basement?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

38. lol! n/t

[Courtesy Flush]

39. My wife is terminally ill

If anything, her illness has strengthened my devotion to her. Robertson is a pig. Sorry.

But then, being an atheist, maybe I just don't understand.

[Javaman]

40. I guess good old pat is anti-marriage...

"in sickness and in health".

do I need to point out that they guy is a crooked fuck too?

[abelenkpe]

45. Is this his idea of family values? nt

[samsingh]

47. people should understand what these guys really stand for

and not fall for the pious mirage.