Oh… here he goes again.Pat Robertson made more conversational remarks on The 700 Club program that were sexist in nature.
Robertson told viewers that women should fix themselves up in order to maintain their marriages.
Pat Robertson gave advice to a daughter asking for help. The 17-year-old daughter was looking for ideas to aid her parent’s marriage. Her father spent his time playing video games and her parent’s marriage was in danger. The talk show preacher turned the situation into blaming women for martial trouble.
Robertson said,
“A woman came to a preacher I know — it’s so funny… She was awful-looking. Her hair was all torn up, she was overweight and looked terrible, clothes bad and everything, and she said, “Oh Reverend, what can I do? My husband has started to drink. ‘And the preacher looked at her and he said: ‘Madam, if I were married to you, I’d start to drink too.'”
At about :58 seconds we find the conversation going down hill fast.
His female co-host gasped in shock at his comments and shook her head in disagreement.
Robertson went on to say that would should “fix [themselves] up, look pretty, look alert” in order to keep the attraction active from a husband. If that wasn’t enough, Robertson inserted his own information as he theorized about the 17-year-old’s mother:
“It may be your mom isn’t as sweet as you think she is, she may be kind of hard-nosed…”
As he ended his remarks, he proudly proclaimed that he “knows” what works after his 50+ years in marriage.
This isn’t the first time Robertson made headlines for ugly comments.
In 2001, he said that Haiti made a pact with the Devil and that homosexuality was a cause of 9/11. Last year, Robertson remarked on his program that if a spouse has Alzheimer’s it constitutes grounds for divorce because the evangelist said the disease is “a kind of death”.
This type of talk only alienates Christians from non-Christians. Robertson’s advice is a back eye upon Christian, which is already struggling with an image problem.
Why do you think Pat Robertson continues to make comments like this? Respond below.
