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Posted on 07/31/2013 8:36:12 PM PDT by Morgana
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA, July 31, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two days after saying he found nothing sinful about sex-change operations, televangelist Pat Robertson said contraception is “a very important part of humanity” that would prevent the birth of too many Appalachian “ragamuffins.” He also said that Natural Family Planning violated the provisions of the Old Testament.
On today's episode of the 700 Club, a woman asked whether the use of birth control is sinful, something about which Catholics and Protestants disagree.
When Robertson's co-host, Wendy Griffith, said not all families could afford to have multiple children, Robertson replied, “That's the big problem, especially in Appalachia. They don't know about birth control. They just keep having babies.”
“You see a string of all these little ragamuffins, and not enough food to eat and so on,” he said, “and it's desperate poverty.” Pat Robertson discusses NFP on today's 700 Club. Pat Robertson discusses NFP on today's 700 Club.
“I'd say yes, birth control is absolutely an important thing for people to use,” he added, saying contraception “is a very important part of humanity.”
Robertson said that “birth control in the Protestant churches has always been permitted,” because they “feel that the care and rearing of children is a tremendous obligation.”
However, the 83-year-old host had negative words for the Natural Family Planning method. “Our good friends in the Catholic Church forbid the use of birth control but they allow people to use what's called 'rhythm,'” he said at the beginning of his answer. “If you read the Old Testament they were forbidden to have sex while women were having their menstrual period, and the Catholic Church is telling women to do just that, and it's OK.”
The Bible discouraged men from having sexual relations with a woman during her menstrual cycle – or touching her – in Leviticus 15:19-33, a provision taken up by Judaism and Islam.
However, Robertson went on to tell another writer later in the segment that eating pork, which is banned in Leviticus 11:7 and Deuteronomy 14:8, is not a sin.
“Where do people get all these things?” he asked. “This is ridiculous.”
The Protestant Reformers opposed artificial contraception, something not embraced by Protestants until the Anglican Communion's Lamberth Conference in 1930.
Pro-life activists point out that many forms of “birth control” – including the morning after pill, the IUD, and hormonal birth control pill – may cause a chemical abortion by blocking the implantation of a newly conceived child.
Senility is sad to watch. Why do his people let him continue? Can’t he retire?
Pope Francis needs to set him straight on this.
Senility bump
Why is this man still on the air anyway?
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His son needs to intervene and retire him.
Yes, dementia.
Robertsons views are that stronger than your connection to God ?
Or smack ‘im upside the head with a copy of Humanae Vitae.
No, No, No.
Where would we be without Bluegrass and Dwight Yoakum!
No, No, No.
Where would we be without Bluegrass and Dwight Yoakum!
Twenty years ago a TV evangelist was sending 18-wheelers full of food into Appalachia saying wasn’t it a shame that white children had to live like this. The footage of the kids was heartbreaking. So what’s happened to Pat?
Robertson just said Appalachia needed to be eugenics preformed on it. Do you know where “Appalachia” is? Oh wait, that is my state! I wonder how many people from Appalachia ie West Virginians have sent that sorry SOB money they did not have to keep the 700 club on the air just like they did Jim Bakker only for him to tell them they don’t need to be breeding.
Yea I just a tad bit offended or can’t you tell?
He makes about as much sense as McCain
They still come in. I know people in my state who are that dirt poor. It is like a third world country. None the less I have seen them give what they don’t have to their church.
I have also seen the 700 club’s compound. Just why in the Hank Hill does that place need armed guards? A lot of wasted money if you ask me.
Ignore him.
pretty much...
Pat, shut up!
People say senile dementia. I think not.
Anyone who ever paid the slightest attention to this whack job’s ranting over the years know it’s par for the course. He has ALWAYS had his own religion and it has little to do with Christianity. It has everything to do with making him wealthy.
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