That Cinches It Then Doesn’t It?
Televangelist Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition, endorsed Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday.
“It is my pleasure to announce my support for America’s Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, a proven leader who is not afraid of what lies ahead and who will cast a hopeful vision for all Americans,” Robertson said during a news conference with Giuliani in Washington.
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This should make the Giuliani campaign really happy, until people start remembering other things Robertson has said, things like shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks when he said.
“I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way — all of them who have tried to secularize America — I point the finger in their face and say: “You helped this happen.”
and also said
“Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court.”
and (among a myriad of other really stupid things) also said
“I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that’s the way it is, period.”
I’ll leave it to someone else to talk about how he tried to pray away a hurricane 
If ever a woman needed a reason to point to for remaining unmarried, this would be it.
What’s next for evangelical America and points North? Arranged weddings?
What’s “painful to hear, ladies” is some dolt with nuts acting and chattering like the squirrel outside my window, digging in the dirt of my plants and herbs, generally making a mess. And he never remembers that he’s been there before.
I’d blast the chittering creature, but that’s against the rules. I’ll let the crows deal with him while I set out food for chickadees, finches and Stellar’s jays.
O/T, are these guys fooling themselves or what? They’re supposed to be on some sort of crusade to make babies to save America. Errm, the particular sort of babies they deem fit and able to save America. Ahem.
Their tactics leave me wondering let alone cold. Can they only get some if they badger young women with hellfire and brimstone, and make the fathers of young women send their daughters to servitude? Those bozos couldn’t get lucky at a bordello with their attitude.
They’re always after someone else to pay their way on the road to freedom. Hey, if they follow the Lord, why keep making children lost and resigned to dropping crumbs before these guys “find” the path? I think a lot of these guys have mother issues. God is good, Jesus is good, but ewwww Jesus is a son of a human mother? Their brains just can’t get around it, and their fundamentalism makes sure they don’t try very hard. Sad.
Christ is welcome any day at my table. He’s been there. Why are these so-called heads-of-households so afraid that He won’t grace theirs?
Young women of Canada, do not allow yourselves to be an instrument of the state. Look after your own best interest, and if approached by someone bent on making you a mute brood-hen, kick their ass to the curb. Peace.
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Robertson’s move is puzzling. I mean Rudy is pretty moderate on social issues, especially abortion. I can’t make any sense of it, myself. Maybe this is a sign that the Christian right is coming unglued. Who knows…
Probably a case of Giuliani not being too picky about who his friends are, he backed Bernie Kerik for head of Homeland Security and he’s now in more than a small spot of trouble.
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The only thing I can think of would be that they (the crazy religious right) have been so scared of Hillary by all of the demonizing by Fox News & Co. that they think Giuliani is the only one who can beat her.
Oh well, Obama’s going to win anyways.
I agree with Throbbin on Robertson’s reasoning, but one would have thought Mitt Romney would be more in line with his stance on social issues. Of course, Mitt’s Mormon, but then again, Rudy’s Catholic. So, I really don’t understand it at all, unless he’s trying to get Rudy beat.
Old family saying: “You can pick your nose, you can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your
familybackers.”I’m okay with Giuliani or Obama, but shudder to think of the others in either race.