It amazes us that viewers continue to write in to “The 700 Club” seeking Pat Robertson’s advice on how to deal with their problems, especially since he’s lately been staking out some rather questionable positions, like telling a man to divorce his wife who is suffering from Alzheimer’s.
Today a woman wrote in wanting to know why the men she dated always broke up with her when they found out that she had three children that had been adopted from foreign countries, which prompted Pat to declare that it was “because a man doesn’t want to take on the United Nations” and that, in general, people should be careful about adopting children because “you just never know what’s been done to a child before you get that child; what kind of sexual abuse there has been, what kind of cruelty, what kind of food deprivation” that might cause them to grow up “weird.”
Robertson went on to explain that people should be willing to help orphans, as he does, “but that doesn’t necessarily mean that I want to take all the orphans around the world into my home” before finally seeming to realize that he was just digging a deeper hole for himself and attempting to change the subject, declaring “I’m in trouble”:
