Evangelist Pat Robertson wants Marijuana Legalized Just Like Alcohol

[Tyler_Durden]

Just discussed on CNN. Pat Robertson Ron Pauling drug policy.....Talking about failed drug policies. Sound familiar?



http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2012/03/08/pat_robertson_marijuana_700_club_hosts_calls_for_g overnment_to_legalize_pot.html

[mickey mouse joy division]

He's actually been saying this for a while. It's nice that someone with his kind of clout in the evangelical community is saying it.

[IDefendThePlatform]

You listening Chris Wallace?

[D.A.S.]

Just discussed on CNN. Pat Robertson Ron Pauling drug policy.....Talking about failed drug policies. Sound familiar?



http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2012/03/08/pat_robertson_marijuana_700_club_hosts_calls_for_g overnment_to_legalize_pot.html

He's also been Ron-Pauling on FEMA, sort of... He said something like people just shouldn't build and live in tornado alleys and on hurricane-prone coastal areas, or do so at their own peril. Sound familiar? Now, he also emphasized power of prayer in the same dialogue, but still what he said sounded incredibly familiar.

[DerailingDaTrain]

He's right on this but he came off as a dick when he said that if people had prayed more that God would interfere and stop the tornado.

[alucard13mmfmj]

Too bad no one will connect Pat Robertson with Ron Paul. People can't seem to connect the dots =P. Didn't this guy say that GOP needs to elect a "less far right" candidate to have a chance to beat Obama? THat means Ron Paul or Romney. THose two are the only ones who can get independent votse (assuming Obama doesnt crush Romney).

[Tinnuhana]

So can someone point this out to Robertson, who, once upon a time, ran for president himself? Have his recent quotes followed by old cuts of Ron saying the same thing?

[The Free Hornet]

He's also been Ron-Pauling on FEMA, sort of... He said something like people just shouldn't build and live in tornado alleys and on hurricane-prone coastal areas, or do so at their own peril. Sound familiar? Now, he also emphasized power of prayer in the same dialogue, but still what he said sounded incredibly familiar.

+1 good to know. "at their own peril" may be sound harsh but it describes how pretty much everything is or ought to be built (what isn't prone to flood, earthquake, tornado, hurricane, fire, forest fire, avalanche, landslide, mudslide, mold, hail damage, crushed by snow, volcano ash/lava flow, or water pipe breaking?). The point is to have a free (as possible) market balance the risks and rewards of building to survive and/or insuring to rebuild.

[Liberty74]

Praise the Lord :p

[brushfire]

You listening Chris Wallace?

So the evangelist wants children to start doing drugs and selling themselves into prostitution?

http://idiotflashback.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/mr-bill.jpg

[jmdrake]

He's right on this but he came off as a dick when he said that if people had prayed more that God would interfere and stop the tornado.

http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/5/24/485b18e9-9ac5-478a-8fa0-5269f5257307.jpg

[jmdrake]

LOLz! Somebody call Bill O'Liely.


So the evangelist wants children to start doing drugs and selling themselves into prostitution?

http://idiotflashback.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/mr-bill.jpg

[Zippyjuan]

He's right on this but he came off as a dick when he said that if people had prayed more that God would interfere and stop the tornado.
Yeah, he does crazy things like that- such as saying that Katrina was God punishing the US and that the Haitian quake was because they practiced voodoo. Wonder what he thought about the one at Christchurch New Zealand?

Robertson has his followers but he can be a bit nutty. Guy called his show to ask what he should do for his wife who has alsheimers. Pat said he should divorce her and start over.

Robertson and Jerry Falwell on the causes of 9/11:

Falwell's list of guilty parties included "the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle," not to mention the ACLU and People for the American Way for good measure. Robertson's response to Falwell's venom? "I totally concur."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1953778_1953776_1953796,00.html #ixzz1oZn8rLUU

[DamianTV]

A bit nutty? The guy is a fucking Sneakers Bar in a Halloween Basket full of Mounds. Sometimes you feel like a Nut, sometimes you dont.

[wormyguy]

IIRC, didn't a bunch of staffers from Robertson's '88 campaign defect to Paul after he dropped out?

[vechorik]

Too bad no one will connect Pat Robertson with Ron Paul. People can't seem to connect the dots =P. Didn't this guy say that GOP needs to elect a "less far right" candidate to have a chance to beat Obama? THat means Ron Paul or Romney. THose two are the only ones who can get independent votse (assuming Obama doesnt crush Romney).

connecting Robertson with Paul at the Blaze (even RP video of debate: also Gary Johnson in debate):

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/pat-robertson-sees-himself-as-a-%E2%80%98hero-of-the-hippie-culture%E2%80%99-for-stance-on-marijuana/

Pat Robertson Sees Himself as a ‘Hero of the Hippie Culture’ for Stance on Marijuana

Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:17pm by Christopher Santarelli
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Pat Robertson a ‘Hero of the Hippie Culture’ for Stance on Marijuana

The 700 Club may be looking to draw younger demographics to help boost ratings given the latest crusade campaigned by host Pat Robertson; pitching himself as a “hippie hero.”

The Houston Chronicle notes that Robertson first told viewers back in December 2010 that he was concerned mandatory sentences for possession were hurting young people, and Reason now reports on recent comments from Robertson further denouncing “the war on weed:”

“I became sort of a hero of the hippie culture, I guess, when I said I think we ought to decriminalize the possession of marijuana.

I just think it’s shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance. The whole thing is crazy.

We’ve said, ‘we’re ‘conservative, we’re tough on crime.‘ That’s baloney. It’s costing us billions and billions of dollars.”

Robertson is not the first older conservative with a following to endorse softer policy towards marijuana.

The late William F. Buckley, founder and editor of the National Review, said in 1996 that with illegal drugs so readily available, the war against them has been lost and if he had his way would at least legalize marijuana. Ron Paul defended his unconventional stance on drug legalization while standing on the debate stage early on in the Republican presidential campaign.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EupRuxwuMLE

[FrankRep]

http://thenewamerican.com/images/stories2012/10aMarch/probertson-ap.001.jpg



Christian television host Pat Robertson has come out in favor of legalizing marijuana, putting him at odds with many other conservative Christians.


Pat Robertson Calls for Marijuana Legalization (http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/11155-pat-robertson-calls-for-marijuana-legalization)


Michael Tennant | The New American (http://thenewamerican.com/)
12 March 2012


“I just want to be on the right side,” Pat Robertson told the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/us/pat-robertson-backs-legalizing-marijuana.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print). “And I think on this one, I’m on the right side.”

“This one” is the issue of legalizing marijuana, a policy that has long been opposed by many conservative Christians, a significant percentage of whom greatly respect the opinion of the longtime host of The 700 Club. Robertson, however, is parting company with them on this matter, saying, “I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol. I’ve never used marijuana and I don’t intend to, but it’s just one of those things that I think: this war on drugs just hasn’t succeeded.”

It is difficult to argue with him on that point. The 40-year war on drugs has utterly failed to stem the tide of drug use in the United States. On the other hand, it has succeeded in giving this country the dubious distinction of having “the highest rate of incarceration of any nation on the face of the Earth,” as Robertson pointed out on his show (http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/08/pat-robertson-speaks-out-for-marijuana-legalization/) recently, calling it a “shocking statistic” for a supposedly “great land of freedom.”
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SOURCE:
http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/11155-pat-robertson-calls-for-marijuana-legalization

[Voluntary Man]

Makes sense. He looks high, whenever I've seen him.



Notice: he didn't claim to not imbibe. ;)

[Jeremy]

Makes sense. He looks high, whenever I've seen him.



Notice: he didn't claim to not imbibe. ;) I don't think it's a good idea to mock someone when they agree with us...

[pcosmar]

I don't think it's a good idea to mock someone when they agree with us...

Was that mocking? I thought it was an observation.

He has been all over this issue. And though I welcome it,, and may use it, I really don't care for the guy.

He seems just another Prophet for Profit to me.
lacking both consistency and integrity he leads a lot of folks astray.

And I also object to Marijuana being compared to alcohol,, or any need for the Government to "control" it.

[Sola_Fide]

He's actually been saying this for a while. It's nice that someone with his kind of clout in the evangelical community is saying it.

He doesn't have any clout, except with elderly people in nursing homes. No one listens to Pat Robertson and no Christian I know thinks anything other than he is a cartoon.

[FreeTraveler]

Contrast that with "Uncle Joe" Biden, who said:

It warrants a discussion. It’s totally legitimate for this to be raised. It’s worth discussing … but there is no possibility that the Obama-Biden administration will change its policy on legalization.


Amazing! Pat Robertson out-liberals Obama-Biden! What next, talking dogs???

Prohibition Fails Again - Rethinking the failed War on Drugs


http://tirelessagorist.blogspot.com/2012/03/prohibition-fails-again.html

[Voluntary Man]

I don't think it's a good idea to mock someone when they agree with us...

I'm glad to see anyone with a following moving the right direction on ending the tyranny against self-determination we've grown accustomed to calling "The Drug War."

However, Robertson doesn't agree with ME on this or many other issues. Like Pat, I have no personal interest in marijuana decriminalization; to me it's as much of an abstraction as gay marriage.

But, I must defend ALL rights (whether or not my neighbors return the favor), or we are ALL doomed.