[Lycia The Repentant]

A terrifying story from Fox News.

Televangelist Pat Robertson stirred the pot by condemning the harsh penalties imposed on young people for marijuana possession – comments that delighted supporters of legalizing pot and surprised followers accustomed to his conservative views.
"We're locking up people that take a couple of puffs of marijuana, and the next thing you know they've got 10 years," Robertson told his "700 Club" audience last week. "I'm not exactly for the use of drugs – don't get me wrong – but I just believe that criminalizing marijuana, criminalizing the possession of a few ounces of pot and that kind of thing, I mean, it's just costing us a fortune and it's ruining young people."
As Robertson's comments were celebrated on several websites advocating the legalization of pot, a spokesman for the conservative icon clarified that he was not calling for decriminalizing marijuana.
"Dr. Robertson unequivocally stated that he is against the use of illegal drugs," Chris Roslan wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
But Allen St. Pierre, executive director of pot legalization advocacy group NORML, said Robertson is among a growing number of libertarians and "right-of-center" public figures who agree the nation's drug laws treat marijuana possession too harshly.

"We don't care how people arrive at the conclusion that prohibition is a failure," he said. "They're acknowledging there are alternatives to lock-them-up-and-throw-away-the-key solutions."
Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, said Robertson's comments on marijuana are important because of his audience.
"The people who are listening to him may roll their eyes when the Democrats say this, but when Pat Robertson says this he has credibility in the faith community."
The Drug Policy Alliance advocates for lighter drug punishments.
Roslan said Robertson advocated a review of the "severity" of existing laws and the millions spent on incarceration "when there are better approaches available."
Robertson regularly stirs controversy on the "700 Club," which began broadcasting in 1966 and now claims 1 million viewers daily.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/24/pat-robertson-stirs-pot-marijuana-laws/#ixzz19CsSeUG6

Friends, you have no idea how much this absolutely SICKENS me. I was under the impression that Pat Robertson was a FUNDAMENTALIST Christian, and part of being a fundamentalist is making sure "fun" things like drugs are kept out of our population's hands!

I think Mr. Robertson needs to stop trying to get our children on heroin and should go back to reading the Bible.

"Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;" Titus 2:12

[Bible Student]

Originally Posted by Lycia The Repentant

A terrifying story from Fox News.

Friends, you have no idea how much this absolutely SICKENS me. I was under the impression that Pat Robertson was a FUNDAMENTALIST Christian, and part of being a fundamentalist is making sure "fun" things like drugs are kept out of our population's hands!

I think Mr. Robertson needs to stop trying to get our children on heroin and should go back to reading the Bible.

"Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;" Titus 2:12

Please tell me that this was an April 1st program that they just re-televised. If not, we will need to assemble a prayer meeting at once to vanquish Satan's stranglehold on the once Godly minister.

[Rev. Jim Osborne]

I can't believe my ears. I've known Pat for years now, and while we haven't been close friends, we've known each other for being fellow televangelists and he's never led me to believe that he would just turn like this. Perhaps he is going senile in his old age?

I mean, this is the same Pat Robertson who has said Godly things like

Originally Posted by Pat Robertson

"Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history."

"(T)he feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."

"It may be a blessing in disguise. ... Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were originally under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal. Ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other."

How could a good man fall like this? As per this recent information, I pledge to never work with Pat Robertson again. I withdraw all my support and he will be the subject on my next sermon on Turn or Burn: Accept Christ or Go to Hell with Rev. Jim Osborne I promise you!

[GOD=life]

Pat Robertson should be arrested for endangering young people.

And yes, Mr. Robertson, we will throw away the key.

P.S. Lesson confirmed: never trust a man with a feminine name. They'll sweet-talk you into earning their trust and then WHAM, it turns out they're going to lay the homersexual agenda on you.

[Oakland "Reb" Griner]

I have noticed Pat using the NIV Bible on his TV show instead of the Godly King James.

And look at where it led him!

He is all liberalated on pot now, and I bet he is softening up on premarital sex too!!

[Johny Joe Hold]

On top of all of these things, Brother Pat has gone to featuring mixed race couples on the 700 Club.

I would certainly like to know why he thinks such marriages have approval in scripture.

[Oakland "Reb" Griner]

Indeed, Mr. Mayor sir, this is what happens when someone starts using the wrong Bible.

Mixed race marriages, selling liquor and automobiles on Sunday, eating shrimp while wearing clothing made of artificial fibre, it is all related, and it is all an affront to God and Godlyism.

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

I had previously appreciated Pat's balanced and positive approach to crime: "When lawlessness is abroad in the land, the same thing will happen here that happened in Nazi Germany. Many of those people involved with Adolph Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals – the two things seem to go together."

I am now revising my opinion of him.

[Sappin]

Humanity's gone, smoked up in a gravity bong
By a democrat-republican-chee-chin-chong
It is stupid to blindly follow any religion
I don't see the difference between the wrong and the wrong

[HTannor]

Originally Posted by Sappin

Humanity's gone, smoked up in a gravity bong
By a democrat-republican-chee-chin-chong
It is stupid to blindly follow any religion
I don't see the difference between the wrong and the wrong

You started off with a promising first sentence. Pot does destroys humanity.

The you went downhill in a hurry.

- by lumping Godly Republicans with demoncrats

- by blatantly condemning ALL religions.

- by using mumbo-jumbo in your last sentence.


Your future here in God's Favorite Forum® is hanging by a thread.

[Brother Temperance]

Originally Posted by Sappin

I don't see the difference between the wrong and the wrong

What's that supposed to mean? You don't see any difference between Pat Robertson and the hippies? Depressing as that thought is, I suppose you may be right.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Brother Pat spoke several times about the cost of prisons in the U. S. and how our rigid drug laws and filling them up.

Speaking just my own views, here, I cannot see a better use of tax money than locking up sinners. It's not that we have too many people in our prisons, it's that we don't have enough of them in there.

There are today people walking the streets of nearby Des Moines who need to be locked up and giving the full Prison Fellowship treatment. This will convert them to Christianity and put them back out on the street glorifying Jesus.

Yes, it costs some money. It's a bargain.

[GOD=life]

Sure, most of those people may not be violent or interested in crime at all, but they're still using a drug that will lead them toward a homersexual lifestyle. Once in prison for life, they have the opportunity to convert to Christianity.

So what's worse? Being locked up for a few decades and having a shot at Heaven or living a good life on earth and going to Hell?

The answer seems pretty obvious...

[Oakland "Reb" Griner]

These are all great points, and it should be clear to Rev. Pat how necessary it is for marijuana dopers to be locked up in maximum security till they convert.

That Pat does not realize this just shows how clouded his judgment has become after his exposure to that wrong, wrong, wrong NIV Bible.

The next time Landover has a record and book burning, we need to redouble our efforts at confiscating and burning as many FALSE Bibles as possible.

[One-Love-man]

Originally Posted by Lycia The Repentant

A terrifying story from Fox News.

Televangelist Pat Robertson stirred the pot by condemning the harsh penalties imposed on young people for marijuana possession – comments that delighted supporters of legalizing pot and surprised followers accustomed to his conservative views....
.....I just believe that criminalizing marijuana, criminalizing the possession of a few ounces of pot and that kind of thing, I mean, it's just costing us a fortune and it's ruining young people.".....
As Robertson's comments were celebrated on several websites advocating the legalization of pot,.....

AMEN I'll smoke to that KOOL W O W you Christians are down mann is up peace Y

Smoken the Starlightsupernova mann WOW

Peace & I Love you man

[Brother Temperance]

That was a genuinely terrible post. Welcome to moderation. From now on, everything you post will have to be manually approved, if a moderator decides that's worth doing. For some reason, I doubt you'll get many posts approved.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

Originally Posted by GOD=life

Sure, most of those people may not be violent or interested in crime at all, but they're still using a drug that will lead them toward a homersexual lifestyle. Once in prison for life, they have the opportunity to convert to Christianity.

Indeed. We desperately need to give people long sentences for crimes involving drugs, sodomy, or (highly likely) both. Once in prison, they will be safe from such influences and will be able to find Our Lord.

[jennabenna]

The partisan humanity is falling up! Dreams are growing bigger. Keep this up, Pat Robertson, and I may have to change my opinion on you.

[Brother Temperance]

Originally Posted by jennabenna

The partisan humanity is falling up!

You do realise that that doesn't make any sense, right? I have given you an infraction for posting while high.

Dreams are growing bigger.

If your dreams revolve around giving children pot, then that may be true.

Keep this up, Pat Robertson, and I may have to change my opinion on you.

This is the only sentence in your drug-addled post which I can heartily endorse.

[HTannor]

Originally Posted by Brother Temperance

This is the only sentence in your drug-addled post which I can heartily endorse.

Brother Temperance, I believe this negroidal dyke-enabler may be trying to confuse you with her words.

I believe she is saying she is going to start becoming a Robertson supporter instead of a Robertson hater.