# 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")
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### Author:  [@Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/41 "2003-07-16T04:05:49Z")
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> \*Originally posted by jkusters \*
> \*\*(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…) \*\*
Infidel! God doesn’t hear prayers unless you put some effort into it!
**GRRRRRRRRRRRRNK!**
(Besides, do you have any idea how many inches of skull those prayers have to get through?)
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### Author:  [@montag01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/montag01)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/42 "2003-07-16T04:10:34Z")
It’s so odd, Robertson himself was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. I wonder if God would put it into his mind to retire . . .
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/43 "2003-07-16T07:03:42Z")
I will be praying that the idiot Scalia will retire.
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### Author:  [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/44 "2003-07-16T13:17:29Z")
God, was there some kind of contest to be the biggest asshole in the world? I’d say Robertson made the finals.
I don’t know why anything he says surprises me. He’s the biggest fucknut in the world, but at least he doesn’t pretend he’s not a hateful bastard.
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### Author:  [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/45 "2003-07-16T13:44:28Z")
looking at the picture on CNN’s site, it makes me thing Pat is actually saying
“Pray for retirement we will. hmmmMMMmm.”
I myself will be praying to Acme, the Goddess of Anvils, to dole out punishment and she sees fit.
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/46 "2003-07-16T13:51:22Z")
At least Pat isn’t wishing aloud for liberal justices to die
Liberal columnist Julianne Malveaux, on the other hand, stated on TV that she hoped Clarence Thomas would eat a lot of fatty foods and die of a heart attack.
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### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/47 "2003-07-16T18:06:35Z")
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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?
> \*\*
So if Pat’s prayers were answered-the liberal justices would retire, Bush would appoint new ones, these justices would be conservatives and their political views would be more agreeable to Pat.
Why not just pray for the liberal justices to turn into conservatives? It’s less complicated and saves time and hearings.
Do Pat’s prayers usually have these extra steps?
‘O Lord, please send some one to open the door(A). This will push the bowling ball(B) down the ramp©and onto the see-saw(D), launching the toy plane(E) into the cat(F). This causes the cat to run across the street(G) through the gay pride parade(H). All the sinful, Satnan-worshiping, witchraft-practicing, lesbians(I) are so distracted by what they believe to be a fellow minion of Lucifer, that they crash their floats(J) into eachother and the parade is cancelled. Amen.’
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### Author:  [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/48 "2003-07-16T18:40:23Z")
I want to smack the people that biatch about “God being taken out of schools”. Uh-huh, because kids are strip-searched for Bibles at the door and anyone who dares begin to pray out is hustled off into a back room and pummelled.
Or maybe Pat has those special Bibles where the part in Matthew about praying in public isn’t there. You know, the expurgated version.
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### Author:  [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/49 "2003-07-16T20:27:09Z")
I wonder if Pat knows that there are both Bibles and organized prayer clubs in practically every public high school in the country? I mean, really… it’s not exactly a secret. For that matter, why on earth do his followers believe this line when many of their children join these clubs and bring their Bibles to school? The whole thing baffles me.
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### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/50 "2003-07-16T21:00:31Z")
Fisherqueen, I’m with you-
I graduated in 93. It was an average suburban, publich high school. Part of the dress code prohibited hats in classes. However, my yarmulke was an exercise of my first ammendment rights, and thus exempt from the rules.
Maybe school policies have really changed in the past ten years.
Maybe the Jewish Conspiracy(which, like the local B’nei Brith, doesn’t seem to want me as a member[sub]a frowning Jewish smiley would be handy here[/sub]) is trying to drive _Christianity_ from public schools. Hmmm…Will we see gefilte fish on the cafeteria menus? Will crossing guards be replaced by Mogen Daviding guards? English teachers will teach Jewish grammar maybe? The pledge of allegiance will add a line reminding students that it wouldn’t kill them to chat with their poor mammas once in a while?
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### Author:  [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/51 "2003-07-16T23:56:20Z")
In 1968 I worked in the English book room of my high school, and there were stacks of Bibles. I read them when I wasn’t doing anything else. I’m very grateful - this started me on the road to atheism.
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2003, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/52 "2003-07-17T00:07:28Z")
Best headline ever:
[Sodomy Brings Pat Robertson To His Knees](http://365gay.com/NewsContent/071503robinsonSodomy.htm)
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2003, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/53 "2003-07-17T00:33:09Z")
Damn, **matt** , that’s funny!
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### Author:  [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/54 "2003-07-17T13:39:30Z")
This incident has changed my understanding of prayer. Pat Robertson is asking God for a specific action (the retirement of 3 judges). But, they have NOT retired! So this MUST be God’s will (or am I wrong).
Seems to me that OPPOSING the willof God is an act of defiance (sin).
So Robertson should NOT be asking God for such an intervention…instead, he should PRAY to be able to DISCERN God’s willin all of this!
Am I right?
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/55 "2003-07-17T16:28:28Z")
Why did I have to read [this](http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/07/17/cnna.robertson/index.html) on my lunch break?
Robin
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### Author:  [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/56 "2003-07-17T17:11:55Z")
Thanks, **MsRobin** – I think! 😉
So Pat Robertson is claiming credit for the downfall of Communism? :eek: At least Al Gor had something substantive to underlie his claim!
But Pat needs to get the classic definition of Christian humility:
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> 1. There is a God
> 2. You are not Him.
If you’ll recall, the last time he went public praying for God’s wrath on sinners, it was telling Him to smite the homosexuals gathering at Orlando for Gay Days at Disney World by sending the hurricane brewing in the Atlantic there.
And God cooperated and sent the hurricane to smite the sinners. Right at Pat’s HQ in Virginia Beach! ;j
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/57 "2003-07-17T18:40:28Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Polycarp \*
> **At least Al Gor had something substantive to underlie his claim**
I suddenly have a vision of a naked Ann Coulter wearing manacles and a studded leather collar, in a cage before a muscular (yet stoic) man with sweaty armpits:
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> I looked about the cage, flushed, furious. I shook the bars. I stamped on the plating beneath the straw with my heel. I cried out with rage and picked up straw and flung it about the cage. I had been captured, and must be a slave girl!
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> “No, An-col-tyr,” murmured Al-gor. “Do not behave so.”
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> “Let Mag-a-dowd be a slave!” I screamed down the long hall between the cages.
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> I wept, holding the bars. “Let her know what it is to be a slave,” I whispered.
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> A guard looked at me, curiously.
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> I shrieked with misery and ran across the cage, flinging myself into its back wall, pounding on it, and then I sunk to my knees by the wall and, in rage and frustration, weeping and screaming, pounded on the steel plating of the floor."
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> “Weep, An-col-tyr,” said Al-gor. “Weep.”
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> I lay on the floor, naked in the straw, a helpless slave girl, the property of men, who must do as they commanded her, and wept, and wept.
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> [ul]—_Lawyers of Gor_[/ul]
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### Author:  [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2003, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/58 "2003-07-17T19:59:09Z")
In point of fact, my keyboard has the collywobbles – it sporadically eats E’s, and irregularly substitutes -xz- for -S-.
But you deserve the **Fenris** Memorial Award for creative parody for that little excerpt!
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/59 "2003-07-17T20:30:34Z")
Ugh. I wonder if Zahn was thinking to herself “he’s bringing up improper analogies and skirting the real issue here” as she interviewed Robertson.:mad: The even worse thing is that this interview makes him out to be someone who sounds like he knows what he’s talking about.
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2003, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/60 "2003-07-17T21:20:26Z")
What Pat’s doing is kinda like praying to God to win the lottery. We all have stuff we’d like, but God’s not a giant ATM, either.
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