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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.”
A network spokesman said Wednesday that Robertson had no further statement.
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Well then he has to be ok with assisted suicide, since they're dead already, dead to God's Word in any case and therefore no longer a human life.
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Considering the question was posed about a man who had already begun dating outside marriage and the answer was conditional ["if he's going to do something…"], I am surprised at how non-judgmental it was.Aren't you?
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yes.
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I've always thought Robertson was a putz and this doesn't change my view. But regarding how a person should respond to dealing with an AZ spouse, I say let he who has done it himself cast the first stone.
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A doctor friend of mine has stayed true to his wife with really bad MS (nsg home total care) for 25 years. Her body is shot, but her mind isn't so, he pretty much felt he couldn't leave, it is nothing less than heroic, though he always seems a little depressed to me, even when he smiles. I don't know if I could have done that. No I'm not saying staying on with an AZ spouse is something anyone should do, I'm saying Pat Robertson playing God again is something to be ridiculed.
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She probably made a pact with the Devil, like the Haitians did when they fought Napoleon III, so she deserves it, or at least, that's why God smote her, doncha think?
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I've never thought much of Pat Robertson. I once got slapped for making fun of him in middle-school!"that's why God smote her, doncha think?"Not everything bad that happens to people is the smiting of God, I'm pretty sure. Just like I'm pretty sure that God didn't allow 9/11 to happen because there were people doing and saying things that Jerry Fallwell and Pat Robertson didn't approve of. As to the question, I think it's complicated. I think that's a decision the person has to make for themselves. I don't think I could leave my wife if she was suffering from Alzheimers, but if a spouse was suffering from a condition where they were just crazy, and always yelling at you, and were not cognizant enough to be the person you married, but cognizant enough to eviscerate you emotionally (not aware enough to be nice, let's say, but aware enough to be mean) . . . boy, that would be hard. Even knowing that it's mostly out of their control, it would be hard to stay in that relationship. Not typical with Alzheimers, I don't think, but I've known at least one case where mental and physical diminishment was accompanied by a nasty shift in personality.
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I'm trying to publish a post that I've been working on, but it publishes based on the time it was first created and falls below the most recent posts in the archive instead of the top. Any ideas how to fix that?Also, MsJS contacted me and I explained what we're doing and am waiting to hear back from her.
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re your 1300, post in on a clipboard and paste it into a fresh comment box?
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lmsinca: in your post, look to the right. Click on "schedule" and then "set date and time" and set it for the current hour/minute (in Mountain time, heh).
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Yeah Kevin, I just figured that out. One minute and counting, lol.
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I've actually liked Pat for a long time, although I haven't been following him at all in recent years.This statement is puzzling and disappointing to me.
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Under the wise and benevolent head of Euripides at the top, I've changed the sample page to "The Rules of Engagement". I have written my rules. Feel free to add or amend (you can all edit it), that's just my starting point.
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On Robertson being a puts: so moved.On staying with a spouse with AZ, I an reminded of the story of SCJ O'Connor, who retired from the court to care for her spouse & watched him fall in love with someone else as he slipped into dementia. Someone please remind my wife she has a free pass when that happens to me.
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