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Friends, I have some serious questions about whether Pat Robertson preaches scripturally sound doctrine, but I'm going to set those concerns aside for a moment and just ponder the following question on its own merits:
Pat Robertson: Don’t adopt sexually abused children that could grow up ‘weird’
The way I see it, Pat does have some valid points. If a child has already gotten some other adult in trouble with sexual abuse charges, what's to stop that child from getting you into similar trouble?
If you really feel called upon to help poor kids from foreign countries, why not follow Pastor Zeke's example and take on a houseboy or two?
Anyway, as I said, I do have a lot of concerns regarding Pat's theology. For example, in the above case, why is he allowing a woman to speak publicly on his show?
And regarding this woman who wrote in who has three adopted kids, yet is actively dating, why didn't Pat rebuke her for being a single mother and whoring it up in front of her children?
It's bad enough when a woman goes and gets herself knocked up and becomes a single mother, but at least we can kind of feel some sympathy because once the dirty deed is done, she's pretty much stuck. But to go out of your way to become a single mother when you aren't even knocked up? What kind of craziness is that?
I think that if I'd been in Pat's shoes, I would have told that woman to quit collecting welfare for each of her little immigrant rug rats, quit trying to find some sucker to pay her diaper bills, and look to Jesus for the strength to stand on her own two feet:
Pat Robertson: Don’t adopt sexually abused children that could grow up ‘weird’
Televangelist Pat Robertson on Thursday cautioned his viewers to think twice before adopting disadvantaged children that had been sexually abused or deprived of food because they could grow up “weird.”
During Thursday’s edition of The 700 Club co-host Kristi Watts read a letter from a woman who wanted to know why men stopped dating her when they learned that she had adopted three daughters from three different countries.
“Can I answer?” Watts asked. “I was going to say because they’re dogs. … That’s just wrong on every level.”
“No, it’s not wrong,” Robertson disagreed. “A man doesn’t want to take on the United Nations, and this woman’s got all these various children and blended family. What is it?”
The TV preacher then told a story about his “dear friend” who had adopted a son with brain damage and the boy “grew up weird.”
“You just never know what’s been done to a child before you get that child,” he explained. “What kind of sexual abuse, what kind of cruelty, what kind of food deprivation, etc., etc., etc.”
“So, you’re not a dog because you don’t want to take on that responsibility,” Robertson added. “You don’t have to take on somebody else’s problems.”
“OK, let’s get to the next question. I’m in trouble.”
During Thursday’s edition of The 700 Club co-host Kristi Watts read a letter from a woman who wanted to know why men stopped dating her when they learned that she had adopted three daughters from three different countries.
“Can I answer?” Watts asked. “I was going to say because they’re dogs. … That’s just wrong on every level.”
“No, it’s not wrong,” Robertson disagreed. “A man doesn’t want to take on the United Nations, and this woman’s got all these various children and blended family. What is it?”
The TV preacher then told a story about his “dear friend” who had adopted a son with brain damage and the boy “grew up weird.”
“You just never know what’s been done to a child before you get that child,” he explained. “What kind of sexual abuse, what kind of cruelty, what kind of food deprivation, etc., etc., etc.”
“So, you’re not a dog because you don’t want to take on that responsibility,” Robertson added. “You don’t have to take on somebody else’s problems.”
“OK, let’s get to the next question. I’m in trouble.”
The way I see it, Pat does have some valid points. If a child has already gotten some other adult in trouble with sexual abuse charges, what's to stop that child from getting you into similar trouble?
If you really feel called upon to help poor kids from foreign countries, why not follow Pastor Zeke's example and take on a houseboy or two?
Anyway, as I said, I do have a lot of concerns regarding Pat's theology. For example, in the above case, why is he allowing a woman to speak publicly on his show?
And regarding this woman who wrote in who has three adopted kids, yet is actively dating, why didn't Pat rebuke her for being a single mother and whoring it up in front of her children?
It's bad enough when a woman goes and gets herself knocked up and becomes a single mother, but at least we can kind of feel some sympathy because once the dirty deed is done, she's pretty much stuck. But to go out of your way to become a single mother when you aren't even knocked up? What kind of craziness is that?
I think that if I'd been in Pat's shoes, I would have told that woman to quit collecting welfare for each of her little immigrant rug rats, quit trying to find some sucker to pay her diaper bills, and look to Jesus for the strength to stand on her own two feet:
Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
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