Televangelist Pat Robertson addressed Sandra Fluke's "fornication" and said that "Rush Limbaugh got a little bit over the top" when he referred to Fluke as a "slut" and a "prostitute."
Robertson discussed Fluke's testimony at a Democratic hearing on contraception with Jerry Bell of the American Principles Project on his CBN show "700 Club" on Wednesday. In her testimony, Fluke -- a third-year law student at Georgetown Law, a Jesuit institution -- said her school does not provide contraception coverage in its student health plan and that contraception can cost a woman more than $3,000 during law school.
"[Fluke] said that students needed $3,000 a year for contraception and that they couldn’t afford it," Robertson said. "As I understand, the Catholic school was supposed to pay for it. Now Catholics say that fornication, if you will, sex outside of marriage, is a sin. This woman is saying 'I'm going to be committing sin but I want you to pay for my sin.'"
Bell took his attack on Fluke a step further, insisting that Fluke's mission is part of a part of a 200 year plot to destroy religion & the family.
"I honestly think that the left, their greatest achievement is the sexual revolution and they want to complete the job of imposing the values of the sexual revolution on everybody else, including those who have held out and disagree with some aspects of it," Bell said. "They’ve been this way since the 1790s, when the word ‘the left’ was invented... and they have never changed in that regard. Every left movement has been about getting rid of traditional institutions."
Fluke has been the face of the contraception debate since Limbaugh called her a "slut," the first in a series of attacks over her views on contraception. Though Limbaugh apologized, Fluke brushed him off, saying she thought his apology was insincere.
A steady stream of advertisers abandoned Limbaugh's show because of the controversy. The conservative host has insisted he's not worried about the mass exodus, saying "everything is cool" with his show.
Below, a slideshow of some of Robertson's other outrageous statements:
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God vs. Gay
"This country cannot continue to violate God's principles and to make a mockery of His laws and think we're gonna get away with it. And when the boil comes, it's going to be horrible."
'Un-acquire' It
"I know people disagree on the question of homosexuality: Is it something they're born with or is it something they acquire? I think a lot of it is acquired. ... Normally speaking, a person who has acquired this can un-acquire it. We've had many people who have indeed left the homosexual lifestyle and gone into a heterosexual relationship and been very, very happy."
Mac 'n' What?
"What is this mac 'n' cheese? Is that a black thing?"
Alzheimer's Justifies Divorce
"I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things, because here's the loved one -- this is the woman or man that you have loved for 20, 30, 40 years, and suddenly that person is gone ... I know it sounds cruel, but if he's going to do something, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/pat-robertson-divorce-alzheimers_n_963305.html" target="_hplink">he should divorce her</a> and start all over again, but to make sure she has custodial care, somebody looking after her." (The 700 Club, Sept. 13, 2011)
Feminist Witchcraft
<strong>Pat Robertson:</strong> If a woman is a lesbian, what advantage does she have over a married woman? Or what deficiency does she have?
<strong>Terry Meeuwsen:</strong> Well, she can't have children.
<strong>Robertson:</strong> That's exactly right. And so, if these married woman can't, don't have children, if they abort their babies, then it kinda puts them on a level playing field.
"The 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." (1992 Iowa fundraising letter opposing a state equal-rights amendment, "Equal Rights Initiative in Iowa Attacked," <em>Washington Post</em>, Aug. 23, 1992)
Hindu Heresy
"We're importing Hinduism into America. The whole thought of your karma, of meditation, of the fact that there's no end of life and there's this endless wheel of life, this is all Hinduism. Chanting too. Many of those chants are to Hindu Gods -- Vishnu, Hare Krishna. The origin of it is all demonic. We can't let that stuff come into America." (The 700 Club, March 23, 1995)
"If anybody understood what Hindus really believe, there would be no doubt that they have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality." ("The New World Order," p. 219)
In the Spirit of the Anti-Christ...
"I think the Antichrist is Islam."
"Presbyterians are the spirit of the Antichrist." ("The Best Democracy Money Can Buy," p. 239)
"You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist." (The 700 Club, Jan. 14, 1991)
Separation of Church and State is a Lie
"The separation of God from government has been a tragedy for the whole country. It has been a tragedy to think that this is a secular country." (The 700 Club, February 2009)
"There is no such thing as separation of church and state in the Constitution. It is a lie of the Left and we are not going to take it anymore." (address to his American Center for Law and Justice, November 1993)
Haiti's Deal with the Devil
"Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were 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'll get us free from the French.' It's a true story. And so the devil said, 'OK, it's a deal.' And they kicked the French out -- the Haitians revolted and got themselves free -- but ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other."
Legalize It. Really.
"We're locking up people that take a couple of puffs of marijuana, and next thing you know they've got 10 years. They've got mandatory sentences, and these judges, they say, they throw up their hands, they say, 'There's nothing that we can do. There's mandatory sentences.' We've got to take a look at what we're considering crimes, and that's one of them. 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 costing us a fortune and it's ruining young people. Young people go into prisons, they go in as youths, and the come out as hardened criminals. And that's not a good thing."
Karate or Devil Worship?
"I don't see anything wrong with being a wrestling coach, or a boxing coach. But if you get into that business where those who are involved in martial arts, before they start, are actually inhaling some demon spirit -- and some of them do that, by the way -- that enormous strength comes about not from a human source but from a demonic source. You don't want to have anything to do with any of that. So I'll leave it to you, but it's a question of: Are you going to help little kids get out of the ghetto, like Chuck Norris does, or are you gonna teach rich people how to hurt their friends?"
Obama's Clowns Occupy Wall Street
"[President Obama] has chosen to attack a segment of our population: those who have been successful. He is attacking those who own capital, those who use jet aircraft as a business tool. He's attacking all the people who have any kind of luxury or wealth, and yet, he goes to Martha's Vineyard and hobnobs with the rich. ... <strong>These clowns up there at Occupy Wall Street are just picking up the President's message</strong>, perhaps in a cruder form."
ACLU + Abortion = 9/11
<strong>Pat Robertson:</strong> I think we've just seen the antechamber to terror. We haven't even begun to see what they can do to the major populations...<br>
<strong>Jerry Falwell:</strong> The ACLU's gotta take a lot of blame for this.<br>
<strong>Robertson:</strong> Oh yes.<br>
<strong>Falwell:</strong> ...and I know I'll hear from them for this, but throwing God -- successfully, with the help of the federal court system -- throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools -- the abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked, and when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. 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 tried to secularize America, I point the finger in their face and say, "You helped this happen."<br>
<strong>Robertson:</strong> Well, I totally concur.
Sodom and America
"There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and has survived."
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