# Oh, for the love of...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-for-the-love-of/188652
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 15, 2003, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-for-the-love-of/188652 "2003-07-15T14:25:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-for-the-love-of/188652/1 "2003-07-15T14:25:17Z")
Watch out for THIS prayer circle! Pat Robertson is praying for resignations of old, sick supreme court justices.
[http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20030714\_1993.html](http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20030714_1993.html)
Doesn’t he have a sick relative he’d like to heal?
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### Author:  [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-for-the-love-of/188652/2 "2003-07-15T15:09:39Z")
Let me get this straight. He’s praying for people to DIE. Hm. Well that’s… evangelical of him.
Isn’t he part of the “Right to Life” movement? Or does that only extend as far as my uterus?
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### Author:  [@House](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/House)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-for-the-love-of/188652/3 "2003-07-15T15:37:26Z")
He’s not wanting them to die, just to step down. They can retire before they die you know.
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### Author:  [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-for-the-love-of/188652/4 "2003-07-15T16:26:53Z")
I stand corrected. That’s ever so much more Christian of him.
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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-for-the-love-of/188652/5 "2003-07-15T16:30:43Z")
But he’s aiming his prayers toward the sick ones. Helluva guy, huh?
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### Author:  [@Capcha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capcha)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-for-the-love-of/188652/6 "2003-07-15T16:31:59Z")
heh…you’d expect that kind of stuff when the phrase ‘legelized homosexual marriages’ comes up…
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### Author:  [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-for-the-love-of/188652/7 "2003-07-15T17:33:39Z")
Hasn’t this twisted b@stard used up all of his putatively “moral” capital yet? Why is anyone taking this moron seriously?
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-for-the-love-of/188652/8 "2003-07-15T18:17:10Z")
I forwarded the link to several people, one of whom replied:
> [@](#):
>
> **Dear God:
> Please strand Pat Robertson on a desert island. It’s okay if the island is a veritable Eden, replete with fruit and fresh spring water. I’m not wishing for his death, o Lord. Oh, and Lord, please make sure the island has an amorous orangutan on it. One that’s aware that sodomy is decriminalized.
> Thank you, Lord.**
To which I say: Amen!