# Pat Robertson: "Ask God to get those liberals on the Supreme Court to retire."
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [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 "2003-07-15T15:10:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/21 "2003-07-15T18:35:56Z")
What a sick fuck. I can’t even think of anything else to say.
Robin
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/22 "2003-07-15T19:35:11Z")
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> \*Originally posted by NaSultainne \*
> \*\*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?
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> [sub]Frickin’ liberals, outta their ever-lovin’ minds with this nonsense.[/sub] \*\*
Sorry, **NaSultianne** , I should have made this more clear.
I have no problem with conservatives slamming liberals, or vice versa.
My gripe concerns the practice of _Christianity_ by Brother Pat here. Apparently he thinks he knows what God wants, or what God _would_ want if God was only paying enough attention.
I’ve been a Christian for nearly 33 years, and Rehnquist has been on the Supreme Court, taking stands usually diametrically opposed to mine for almost all of that time. It’s never once occured to me that I should _pray_ for his retirement. Nor that I should pray for any GOP candidate from Nixon to Bush the Younger to lose an election. It’s this weird thing about not knowing God’s will: “Who knows the mind of the Lord? Who has been his counsellor?” asks Paul in one of his epistles. The answer is not “_Me!!!_”, surprising as that may seem.
Pat is welcome to take whatever political stances he wants; it’s a free country. It’s this business of treating God as a kind of personal pet god that takes one’s side in everything that I can’t abide. It just ain’t like that.
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### Author:  [@Ben\_Hicks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben_Hicks)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/23 "2003-07-15T19:53:36Z")
Christ, isn’t this asshole dead yet?
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### Author:  [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/24 "2003-07-15T20:11:21Z")
This little nudge from Pat Robertson may be all that some fanatical wingnut needs to pick up his shotgun and try to do god’s work.
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### Author:  [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/25 "2003-07-15T21:29:53Z")
As if we needed more reasons to dislike Pat Robertson…
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/26 "2003-07-15T21:49:47Z")
For all I care, Pat Robertson can ask God to send robot wolverines to gnaw off my scrotum. Since there ain’t no magical sky fairy to respond to his prayer, the only person being worked into a lather about it is Robertson himself. And one of these days his overworked black heart will crumble into dust.
Loons like Robertson aren’t worth the energy it takes to think about them.
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### Author:  [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/27 "2003-07-15T22:06:05Z")
Except, of course, that this particular loon controls a media empire and has a whole hell of a lot of devoted followers who take his venomous spewings seriously.
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### Author:  [@Priam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Priam)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/28 "2003-07-15T22:16:18Z")
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> \*Originally posted by pepperlandgirl \*
> \*\*Zeus hasn’t been answering my calls. I’m quite distraught. \*\*
We all know Zeus is a big manslut anyway. Him and his golden showers, swans, bulls…
_chokes back a sob_
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### Author:  [@japatlgt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/japatlgt)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/29 "2003-07-16T00:01:02Z")
Pat will get progressively loony as he ages. He really should consider retirement. I’m sure there’s a happy farm somewhere that’ll let him play god.
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### Author:  [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/30 "2003-07-16T00:13:33Z")
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> “Baby born with birthmark shaped like Elvis”
What? When did this happen? Why wasn’t I informed?
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### Author:  [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/31 "2003-07-16T00:15:28Z")
Pat mentions the health concerns of 3 of the justices. Shouldn’t he be sending some of his magic [pancakes](http://www.cbn.com/communitypublic/pancakes.asp) their way?
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> Pat’s Age-Defying Protein Pancakes can:
>
> ```
> * Combat the build-up of plaque in your blood vessels and arteries
> * Provide complex carbohydrates to keep your system running at its best
> * Provide an excellent source of energy and essential fatty acids, important for
> good heart health
> * Help protect against breast, uterine and prostate cancer
>
> ```
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### Author:  [@froggg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/froggg)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/32 "2003-07-16T01:34:20Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Ben Hicks \*
> \*\*Christ, isn’t this asshole dead yet? \*\*
Sounds like a prayer to the almighty to me! 😃
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/33 "2003-07-16T02:41:03Z")
Does not the Good Book quote The Boss as saying" Be not like the Republicans, praying in public to be seen as pious…" and so forth?
[sub]_Pharisee_ is Ahramaic for Republican[/sub]
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### Author:  [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/34 "2003-07-16T02:48:42Z")
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> Would you join with me and many others in crying out to our Lord to change the Court?
Isn’t that in contradiction with this :
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> Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/35 "2003-07-16T02:55:25Z")
I’m tempted to convert to Christianity just so I could pray to God that Pat gets uncontrollable explosive diarrhea.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/36 "2003-07-16T02:58:29Z")
You got your wish, save only that the orifice involved is his mouth, rather than his Nixon.
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### Author:  [@Publius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Publius)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/37 "2003-07-16T03:04:16Z")
Actually, judging by the picture accompanying the CNN article, **Mr. Blue Sky** got his wish granted unconditionally.
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### Author:  [@Survivor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Survivor)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/38 "2003-07-16T03:10:50Z")
Was doing the rounds online, and on one of my usual sites I found this… A call for people to Pray for Robertson’s Ass to be Toast… (PRAT) I like it 😃
[http://www.mensurviving.org](http://www.mensurviving.org)
Survivor
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### Author:  [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/39 "2003-07-16T03:14:26Z")
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> Jesus was the original bleeding heart liberal.
Only after the bit with the spear. Before that, he was a bleeding wrists/feet liberal.
(I’m sorry. I couldn’t help myself.)
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### Author:  [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/40 "2003-07-16T03:52:39Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Diogenes the Cynic \*
> \*\*Does Pat Robertson think that God is a republican? He needs to read his Bible. Jesus was the original bleeding heart liberal. \*\*
Reminds me of a [t-shirt](http://www.cafeshops.com/landoverbaptist.3957479) i’ve been meaning to buy. I think i’ll order it now.
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