# 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:** 16
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### Author:  [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/61 "2003-07-17T23:27:31Z")
Well I’m not worrying too much, because Pat’s God is clearly not all-powerful.
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> ZAHN: Would it be in your judgment and your definition of prayer, equally appropriate for you to pray for a change in the Constitution that wouldn’t allow for a life term on the bench?
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> ROBERTSON: The possibility of getting a Constitutional amendment of that magnitude through both houses of Congress on a two-thirds vote and then through three quarters of the state legislatures is virtually impossible.
Virtually impossible? For God? If He can’t change the minds of a bunch of legislators, how’s He supposed to change the minds of the Supreme Court Justices?
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/62 "2003-07-17T23:47:56Z")
OTOH, Robertson could be saying that, given how often his prayers are answered, it would take such an inordinate amount of prayer to cause as to be pointless (relative to the effort).
[/spin doctor]
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/63 "2003-07-18T00:00:43Z")
**Matt** may be on to something, miracle-wise. I mean, if prayer can “cure” a homosexual, could not God zap Pat into a totally nelly drag queen? On TV?
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/64 "2003-07-18T01:59:35Z")
I"ve gone through three changes of underwear reading this thread. You guys gotta quit with the funnies, or I gotta find a thicker brand of Depends.
People actually go out on a Friday night to a Comedy Club and **pay money** to hear this kind of stuff.
I get it for free.
😃
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### Author:  [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/65 "2003-07-18T01:59:49Z")
Strange that Robertson believes this Court has been turning the Constitution on it’s ear, and is upset with the way the justices have been ruling on certain cases.
He seemed okay with the Court when they decided the 2000 election in Bush’s favor.
Why’s he so concerned with a justice being 83 years old, if the man is in good physical and mental health why should God put it in his head to retire? When can we expect God to tell Pat to pack it in? He’s 73 himself and past the 65 and 70 mandatory corporate retirement ages he cited as examples. Perhaps he should turn everything over to his goofy son, Gordon. He could spend his golden years advising Charles Taylor on how to be an “elder stateman” if he goes into exile in Nigeria.
“Dear God, we ask You, Oh Heavenly Father, to stack the deck in our favor. To give us three sacred aces up our sleeve, because playing by the rules of our Constitution, althpugh we say You gave it to us through our Founding Fathers, is just too hard. We would pray for an amendent to require retirement, but it’s virtually impossible to follow that long and unfortunately legal process, even for You. Thus it is so, because I said it to Paula Zahn, and I’d hate to be made a fool by admitting that I put my foot in my mouth concerning You. Lord, please deliver us from the blight of “checks and balances” in our three branch federal government. In Your Name and your son, Jesus, we pray. Amen.”
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### Author:  [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/66 "2003-07-18T03:06:57Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Cervaise \*
> \*\*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: \*\*
Okay, who stole my dream log?
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2003, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/67 "2003-07-18T05:01:44Z")
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> \*Originally posted by widdershins \*
> “Dear God, we ask You, Oh Heavenly Father, to stack the deck in our favor. To give us three sacred aces up our sleeve, because playing by the rules of our Constitution, althpugh we say You gave it to us through our Founding Fathers, is just too hard. We would pray for an amendent to require retirement, but it’s virtually impossible to follow that long and unfortunately legal process, even for You. Thus it is so, because I said it to Paula Zahn, and I’d hate to be made a fool by admitting that I put my foot in my mouth concerning You. Lord, please deliver us from the blight of “checks and balances” in our three branch federal government. In Your Name and your son, Jesus, we pray. Amen.”
Bloody good thing Robertson doesn’t do vanity searches on this MB or he’d … well, be arrested for plagiarism when he printed this on his website.
Can’t say I’d shed many a tear.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2003, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/68 "2003-07-18T12:06:45Z")
“May the sweet Baby Jesus shut your mouth and open your mind”
- Prayer from the 60’s
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2003, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/69 "2003-07-18T12:38:09Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Cervaise \*
> \*\*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: \*\*
Ah, yes, Lawyers of Gor, one of Norman’s best works! Right up there with
Houseplants of Gor
[http://www.rdrop.com/users/wyvern/data/houseplants.html](http://www.rdrop.com/users/wyvern/data/houseplants.html)
and Kajira Doll:
[http://www.jollyroper.com/gor/kajira.html](http://www.jollyroper.com/gor/kajira.html)
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### Author:  [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/70 "2003-07-18T20:29:22Z")
You should have put an “NSFW” warning on those, **EC!**
I almost got busted for that last link…! :eek:
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/71 "2003-07-18T22:51:26Z")
Man! I want one of them!
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/72 "2003-07-18T23:06:27Z")
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> \*Originally posted by rjung \*
> \*\*You should have put an “NSFW” warning on those, **EC!**
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> I almost got busted for that last link…! :eek: \*\*
Sorry, Rjung, since it was a doll and it wasn’t actually naked, it didn’t occur to me that I had to NSFW it, but you’re right, I prolly shoulda.
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/73 "2003-07-19T00:50:03Z")
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> \*Originally posted by elucidator \*
> \*\*could not God zap Pat into a totally nelly drag queen? On TV? \*\*
Now that _would_ be a miracle! 😃
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### Author:  [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/74 "2003-07-19T01:29:54Z")
Is it just me, or does ol’ pat have a REALLY huge effen head?
I’d love to see him, his big headed kid, Pete Popoff, Benny Hinn, Greg Dickow (that’s his name, really) that fat little pimp suit wearin’ bastard (hagee, I think) and FreeFlow Dollar, and all the rest all roped like cattle in a big circle up to their necks in honey and ants, whilst Mother Angelica pummeled them soundly with a large stick.
I’m no Catholic, but that hand grenade in a habit just cracks me up.
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### Author:  [@El\_Gui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Gui)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2003, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/75 "2003-07-19T08:03:34Z")
And if the six “liberals” do retire, then perhaps Bush can pack the court with such Christian fundamentalist ideals like the porno-lovin’ Thomas or the _Catholic_ Scalia?
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### Author:  [@SweetLucy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SweetLucy)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-ask-god-to-get-those-liberals-on-the-supreme-court-to-retire/188667/76 "2003-07-19T21:03:01Z")
Fair enough, as long as I can pray that the Lord will persuade ole Pat to retire and put duct tape over his mouth permanently. 😃
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