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May 16, 2005
Writing Prompt #2 - Jail Time
Write about someone you would like to see put in jail.
This one is hard, since there are so many people I would like to see put in jail--but since I don't have hours and hours to complete a full accounting, I will restrain myself to one person, Pat Robertson.
At the same time, prison sentences are a burden on the rest of society, so I would like to specify that Mr. Robertson does not deserve a country club jail. No, I'd prefer that he have a hole in the ground as a bathroom. I'm not advocating abuse, you understand, just skimping on the frills. From what I understand, he'd probably see it as a test from God, signifying that he is something of a modern-day Daniel.
Pat Robertson - At his official website you can "learn more about the man and his mission -- as a broadcaster, statesman, author, humanitarian, businessman and Christian." What you won't read is how routinely states that gays are worse than Nazis, worse than terrorists, and are the work of the devil--and how he speaks for God when he claims they will burn in hell forever. In addition, he's spoken about:
- Ending Apartheid in South Africa: (talking about apartheid South Africa) "I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which the white people represent now, a minority, and they need and have a right to demand a protection of their rights."--Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," 3/18/92
- Pro-Choice Lesbians: "I am absolutely persuaded one of the reasons so many lesbians are at the forefront of the pro-choice movement is because being a mother is the unique characteristic of womanhood, and these lesbians will never be mothers naturally, so they don't want anybody else to have that privilege either." -- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, May 28, 1993
- Planned Parenthood: (talking about Planned Parenthood) "It is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism-everything that the Bible condemns."--Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," 4/9/91
- Homosexual Satanists ('cause, ya know, they are all over the place): "Many of those people involved with Adolph Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals--the two things seem to go together."--Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," 1/21/93
- Support of Randall Terry, who said, "I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good...Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty, we are called by God, to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism."--Randall Terry, Founder of Operation Rescue, The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 8-16-93
Actually, even jail is a little too good for this man. I'm thinking that some sort of Biblical plague might be more appropriate. Then he could blame it on the lesbian, pro-choice aethiests and die a vindicated man.
Comments
Though these quotes are around 15 years old, let us not forget that after 9/11 Pat Robertson -- along with Jerry Fallwell -- stated that gay people were why the terrorist attacks happened:
(transcript from the 700 Club 9/13/01)
FALWELL: And I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out 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 have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say: "You helped this happen."
ROBERTSON: Well, I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government. And so we're responsible as a free society for what the top people do. And, the top people, of course, is the court system.
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/14/Falwell.apology/">http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/14/Falwell.apology/
Posted by: KT at May 18, 2005 06:29 PM
