### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/1 "2003-07-15T15:10:28Z")
[CNN story](http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/07/15/robertson.ap/index.html), [Pat Robertson’s letter on CBN’s site](http://www.cbn.com/special/supremecourt/pledgetopray.asp).
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> Would you join with me and many others in crying out to our Lord to change the Court? If we fast and pray and earnestly seek God’s face, then He will hear our prayer and give us relief.
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> One justice is 83 years old, another has cancer, and another has a heart condition. Would it not be possible for God to put it in the minds of these three judges that the time has come to retire? With their retirement and the appointment of conservative judges, a massive change in federal jurisprudence can take place.
Sounds like he could barely hold back from asking God to ‘take them home’.
The presumption of people such as Pat in turning prayer into an occasion of advising God on what’s right and wrong never ceases to amaze me.
And of course, he tosses in the usual lies:
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> In 1962, they ruled prayer out of the public schools.
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> In 1963, they ruled the Bible out of public schools.
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> Subsequent federal courts have ruled…that it was illegal for little elementary school children to give thanks over their milk and cookies at snack time.
I don’t know what there is to say about Pat that hasn’t been said many times before; this is just the latest for-instance.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/2 "2003-07-15T15:28:29Z")
Shouldn’t a “Christian” be praying for the health and well-being of those Justices? Shouldn’t he be praying for God to give them wisdom and clarity of mind?
Does Pat Robertson think that God is a republican? He needs to read his Bible. Jesus was the original bleeding heart liberal.
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### Author:  [@jkusters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jkusters)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/3 "2003-07-15T15:35:59Z")
Doesn’t praying for “God to put it in the minds” violate free will? I’ve always wondered about praying for people to change their minds and the effect on free will…
JOhn.
(Besides, doesn’t that picture of Pat make him look very constipated? Maybe he doesn’t need lots of money; maybe he needs donations of Ex-Lax…)
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### Author:  [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/4 "2003-07-15T15:37:22Z")
Wonder if this prayer will go as well as his prayer for Charles Taylor.
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### Author:  [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/5 "2003-07-15T15:38:35Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Diogenes the Cynic \*
> Shouldn’t a “Christian” be praying for the health and well-being of those Justices? Shouldn’t he be praying for God to give them wisdom and clarity of mind?
Hate sells better than love. Robertson discovered that a long time ago.
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/6 "2003-07-15T15:54:36Z")
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> The framers of our Constitution never intended anything like this to take place in our land.
Mr. Robertson knows more about what the Founding Fathers intended than the Supreme Court Justices? Sounds like a bit of arrogance to me.
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### Author:  [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/7 "2003-07-15T16:28:43Z")
He’s just taking part in the war on terror.
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> Please join us in prayer to support a massive prayer offensive that we are going to call Operation Supreme Court Freedom.
All things considered, I’d call it progress. It’s not as bad as blaming 9/11 on liberals, homosexuals and the ACLU. God’s wrath, you know.
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### Author:  [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/8 "2003-07-15T16:33:59Z")
Oh yes, and the left never prays for God to strike down the Bush administration with a mighty lightning bolt?
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### Author:  [@3waygeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3waygeek)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/9 "2003-07-15T16:38:11Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Muad’Dib \*
> \*\*Oh yes, and the left never prays for God to strike down the Bush administration with a mighty lightning bolt? \*\*
Of course not – everyone knows liberals are all atheists. 😉
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### Author:  [@Jpeg\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jpeg_Jones)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/10 "2003-07-15T16:38:17Z")
No. We vote.
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/11 "2003-07-15T16:38:53Z")
If they do, show it. Show where someone is publicly asking that God “put it in the mind of George W. Bush to be struck with a mighty lightning bolt.”
Let’s call it Operation W’s Wacky New 'Do.
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### Author:  [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/12 "2003-07-15T16:46:15Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Muad’Dib \*
> \*\*Oh yes, and the left never prays for God to strike down the Bush administration with a mighty lightning bolt? \*\*
Zeus hasn’t been answering my calls. I’m quite distraught.
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### Author:  [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/13 "2003-07-15T16:54:24Z")
I’m not quite clear on whether the OP’s discontent is with Mr. Robertson’s methods or with his intended result.
- Rick
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### Author:  [@NaSultainne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NaSultainne)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/14 "2003-07-15T16:55:18Z")
Oh for the love of pete!
He _dared_ to pray for liberal justices to \<\<_gasp_\>\> retire?
Hang the man, I say! Hang him, and hang him high!
Seriously, do you guys _ever_ get a clue?
[sub]Frickin’ liberals, outta their ever-lovin’ minds with this nonsense.[/sub]
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### Author:  [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/15 "2003-07-15T17:02:42Z")
Eh, I can’t too worked up about it. Any fundies who think Pat Robertson has any moral authority are too stupid to be swayed by reason anyway.
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### Author:  [@Mars\_Horizon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mars_Horizon)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/16 "2003-07-15T17:07:44Z")
Pat Robertson is insane - I am convinced.
I sent CNN feedback asking them why they thought the ravings of this particular right wing religious nut was so newsworthy as to merit top placement on their homepage.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/17 "2003-07-15T17:14:10Z")
Q: What has more False Profits than ENRON’s Books?
A: The 700 Club.
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/18 "2003-07-15T17:27:00Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Mars Horizon \*
> \*\*Pat Robertson is insane - I am convinced.
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> I sent CNN feedback asking them why they thought the ravings of this particular right wing religious nut was so newsworthy as to merit top placement on their homepage.
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Same reason “Baby born with birthmark shaped like Elvis” makes the news. It’s News of the Weird combined (in the case of Robertson et al.) with that whole “oh, a traffic accident, let’s gawk for a few minutes” mentality.
**NaSultainne** , I can’t speak for any of the rest of us liberals, but I got my clue from a crackerjack box. That why I evidently have more sense than for proclaiming loudly things like “now let’s not actively wish for a supreme court that just panders to our every whim, in possible violation of the actual laws of this country”. Or at least you won’t catch me spreading that message to everyone I know;)
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### Author:  [@Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_of_Sandwhich)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/19 "2003-07-15T17:47:03Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Diogenes the Cynic \*
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> Does Pat Robertson think that God is a republican? \*\*
Well, He only took six days to create the world. Wouldn’t that make Him a strict constructionist?
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### Author:  [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/20 "2003-07-15T17:56:19Z")
Remember, it’s only a “tyrannical oligarchy” if it doesn’t agree with you. If it does, then it’s a right-thinking majority that can bring about “a massive change in federal jurisprudence”.
God: You got your mind right, boy?
Supreme Court Justice: Yes, boss! Don’t you worry, I got my mind right!
God: You better boy.
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