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Sep 14 2012

Pat Robertson: Marriage Counselor

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Feminism, Religious Barbarism

by Ed Brayton

Wow. This video of Pat Robertson answering a question from a man who says his wife has become rebellious and won’t submit to him really has to be seen to be believed. And he says that the man should move to Saudi Arabia so he can beat her legally. He was clearly trying to make a joke about that, but he apparently realized just how bad that was because they edited it out of the video of the show on the CBN website. And notice how he does a complete psychological diagnosis of the man’s wife based on only a few sentences.

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    morgandourif

    September 14, 2012 at 9:24 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

    I love how Robertson’s co-host tries to sort of lead him away a bit.

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    Marcus Ranum

    September 14, 2012 at 9:25 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

    So, Pat wants to live in a world in which people are beaten for being displeasing? Somehow, I suspect, he wouldn’t enjoy that.

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    d cwilson

    September 14, 2012 at 9:28 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

    Marcus @2:

    There you go again, confusing women fetal incubation units with people.

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    Zinc Avenger (Sarcasm Tags 3.0 Compliant)

    September 14, 2012 at 9:40 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

    @Marcus Ranum, #2:

    Well no, not men, that would be ridiculous. Just women.

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    blf

    September 14, 2012 at 9:44 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

    Well no, not men, that would be ridiculous. Just women.

    Probably also children and slaves.

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    Michael Heath

    September 14, 2012 at 9:44 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

    Pat Robertson’s front-and-center attendance at a post-convention Mitt Romney campaign rally doesn’t reconcile with Mrs. Romney’s convention speech assertion that they “love women”. I wonder which is true when it comes to public policy?

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    John Hinkle

    September 14, 2012 at 9:45 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

    @5
    And don’t forget minorities.

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    blf

    September 14, 2012 at 9:59 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

    @7: X ≠ man ⇒ X ∈ minority.

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    Mr Ed

    September 14, 2012 at 10:06 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

    Pat Robertson’s front-and-center attendance at a post-convention Mitt Romney campaign rally doesn’t reconcile with Mrs. Romney’s convention speech assertion that they “love women”.

    Seems consistent, this isn’t mindless violence this is correcting. God wants man to submit to him and women to to submit to man and children to submit to their parents. Sometime a person forgets where they stand in the pecking order and needs a little correction.

    I don’t even slightly agree but the rationalization is they are helping the person.

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    Sastra

    September 14, 2012 at 10:30 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

    Gee, an example of “fatwah envy” that doesn’t involve atheists for a change. And of course it’s being used on women — to remind them of what they’d really deserve if the Enlightenment with its picky secular scruples wasn’t so unaccountably popular at the moment.

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    Abby Normal

    September 14, 2012 at 11:25 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

    Well them hoes ain’t gonna slap themselves. Pat Robertson, pimp daddy for Jesus.

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    Ex Patriot

    September 14, 2012 at 11:33 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

    I would only say this, any man who hits a women is a piece of garbage and any one who backs this is worse. Any one who abuses women is a coward and a person beyond contempt.I am male and totally believe in women rights to control their own bodies amd systems.

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    andrew

    September 14, 2012 at 12:13 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

    For your edification, via Friendly Atheist.

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    NitricAcid

    September 14, 2012 at 12:51 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

    #6- of course they love women. Everyone loves their pets.

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