Pat Robertson Says if Your Wife Has Alzheimer's and You're Interested in Dating, Divorce Her and Move On: VIDEO
A man whose wife has Alzheimer's has begun to date other women and goes to Pat Robertson for advice on whether this is the right thing to do.
Pat's answer? Divorce the wife and move on. Just make sure "somebody" is looking after her.
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...
Thanks guys.
My grandmother was this lovely brilliant lady, so watching her intellect fall apart was so hard. She was always laughing, always so witty.
I hate Alzheimers. :(
My current sweetie said the same thing to me and I knew that I met the right person.
Posted by: Rin | Sep 15, 2011 10:43:43 AM
Lee Keels, she may not remember her vows, but her husband does. I'm not opposed to a divorce, but the way that Pat says it is just callous, and goes against the vows that were made.
Posted by: cadence | Sep 15, 2011 10:48:51 AM
Sick freak of nature thats exactly what people like Pat are and always will be.Talk about a vile disgusting hypocritical Christian he has no love at all for anyone but himself.
Posted by: Michael | Sep 15, 2011 10:50:43 AM
I love how he says ""Get some ethicist besides me to give you the answer."
Pat Robertson is the Grand High Poobah of judging people but NOW he's going to pass the buck?! From the way he talks you'd think God stops by for chats all the time, to ask HIS advice! When there's a terrorist attack, a hurricane or some other natural disaster Pat Robertson is johnny-on-the-spot to let everyone know whose fault it really is.
The whole thing is lovely because it shows everyone including his followers exactly who Pat Robertson and others like him really are beneath their self-righteousness.
Posted by: Caliban | Sep 15, 2011 11:04:54 AM
How christian of him?
Posted by: dani | Sep 15, 2011 11:11:14 AM
@LEE
Sorry - but I've been with my partner 18 years and I could never do what Robertson suggests if I found myself in this situation. It would break my heart.
@RIN
Wow! You summed it beautifully.
Posted by: PB | Sep 15, 2011 11:36:26 AM
Same rules apply if she has cancer. Just ask Newt.
Posted by: Timzilla | Sep 15, 2011 12:16:08 PM
He says "make sure someone looks after her". Does he mean the state or government? Wait a minute. Aren't these the same group of people against all that? So, now he's for it?
Posted by: larryh59 | Sep 15, 2011 12:41:00 PM
I'm guessing the woman with Alzheimer's is better off. There's not a lot of good that can come from your primary caregiver's seeking advice from Pat Robertson. Also, too, query how much of the wife's money Robertson has now.
Posted by: Kyle | Sep 15, 2011 12:42:32 PM
Well, you can rationalize anything. After age 70 there isn't much romance to had in any event.
Posted by: anon | Sep 15, 2011 12:47:34 PM
@PB
:) That is very sweet, and if I knew your partner I would tell him he's a lucky guy to have a real romantic as his partner.
**hugs**
Posted by: Rin | Sep 15, 2011 1:39:34 PM
I guess "for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, til death do us part...What god has joined together let no man put asunder." really doesn't matter all that much to Robertson and his christian sycophants. So much for the much ballyhooed sanctity of marriage spiel.
I've been with my partner for over 31 years. Both of us have health issues and know that eventually one of us will be caregiver for the other. We understand that's all part and parcel of our illegal, unrecognized "marriage".
A long time ago (I'm an atheist and have been for all my adult life) a Christian coworker once told me that one of the things that upset him most about me was I as an atheist was a better christian than he was. I had a compassion and tolerance for the less fortunate that he couldn't quite muster in himself. He was a devout christian who spent a great deal of time praying for my salvation when his time and energy would have been better spent trying to help his fellow man.
So, it appears that my illegal, unacceptable gay marriage is more devoted and more stable than most of these sham christian marriages. I can see where they are threatened by gay marriage. We may just end up in more committed and stable relationships that do not consider abandoning a partner who is sick and undergoing chemo (right Newt?) or suffering from Alzheimer's, right Pat?
Posted by: Bob R | Sep 15, 2011 1:41:58 PM
There are no words to describe the DISGUST I feel for this individual, there is no way I can refer to it as a person or even a human being. If this thing and a rat were drowning, without hesitation I'd save the rat. My grandparents went through this same thing, my grandfather was out in left field and recognised no one even the wonderful woman he was married to for 71 years, but like clockwork every day she would go to his room in the nursing home and sit with him no matter what off thing he said she stayed by his side. I'd do the same for my husband and I know he'd do the same for me. So all I can say to Scat Robertson is drop dead you rotten piece of filth.
Posted by: Akula | Sep 15, 2011 4:06:07 PM
so much for "in sickness and in health".....
Posted by: Larry | Sep 15, 2011 4:31:35 PM
"What did Robertson say after the video was abruptly cut off mid-sentence? ... It's not dissimilar from videos that are chopped and edited, and we love to vilify the right for doing that."
Michael: I think it's VERY dissimilar than the "editing" that "vilified" right-wing sources like Faux News, WingNut Daily and Laura Schlessinger do, in that they have a very well-established reputation for cutting out words inorder to twist the context into something so different than the original that it often becomes the opposite of what was actually said.
It is easy enough to do your homework since the whole episode can be viewed by anyone at Pat Robertson's own CBN website. (Sept 13th 700 Club episode from around 00:50 to 00:53).
The other minute or so of the conversation just has Robertson giving an example of someone he knew whose wife no longer recognized him and said hurtful things, and he said "I can't fault them for wanting some kind of companionship" and then suggested viewers "get some sort of ethicist" to decide. Then they change the subject to a question about the American Revolution.
The context is not in anyway changed by anything that was edited out.
While listening for this segment, I heard another segment with a viewer's question asking Pat if it is permitted for a Christian to train for a triathlon. (Pat determines that it is acceptable.)
Honestly, how dumb are these people who so lack an innate sense of right and wrong that they depend on televangelists to make life decisions for them?
Posted by: GregV | Sep 15, 2011 5:09:16 PM
I always love a chance to resurrect my one dead (or close to dying) Evangelical preacher joke with a new name:
What did Pat Robertson say when he finally got to heaven?
I never expected it to be so hot!
Sorry - it's my attempt at g-rated humor.
Posted by: jonny | Sep 15, 2011 5:33:35 PM
So much for the sanctity of marriage.
Posted by: cando64 | Sep 15, 2011 10:21:55 PM
Robertson is such a typical fundy. They all claim to be great authorities, but they don't know jack about scripture. Watching this video, the first thing that jumped into my mind:
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
That's Jesus himself talking, forbiding divorce.
Posted by: Wilberforce | Sep 16, 2011 12:02:26 AM
My mother and father went through a similar situation. My father was incapacitated due to early Alzheimer's disease. He was in a nursing home for the last year of his life. He remembered us but his body gave out. He couldn't speak, he couldn't eat, he couldn't walk. It was horrible. My mother visited him every day. She fed him, she dressed him. She loved him. But, at the same time, she was 70 and didn't want to be alone. She got kicked out of the singles group at her community because she was still married and yet she wanted the company of a man who could speak and walk. Eventually, she dated my father's brother in law who's wife had just passed away a year earlier. They got married a few months after my father passed away. I don't fault her for not wanting to be alone.
I don't know how I would react in the same situation. I do know that love is forever.
The last thing my father said to my mother before he died was "Hey baby. Wanna go on a hot date?"
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Posted by: chi flat iron | Sep 16, 2011 10:53:48 PM
The ultimate so-called christian hypocrisy.
These religious fanatics are as horrible as the Taliban.
Posted by: Peter | Sep 17, 2011 9:43:46 AM