Robertson Clarifies Supreme Court Remarks
Thu Jul 17, 7:22 PM ET
By SONJA BARISIC, Associated Press Writer
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said
Thursday he was not talking about any particular Supreme Court justices
when he asked his television audience to pray that three liberal justices
retire.
"I don't care which three, I mean as long as the
three conservatives stay on," Robertson told
reporters after an event at Regent University,
which he leads as president and chancellor.
"There's six liberals, so it's up to the Lord.
"I'm not telling God what to do," he added. "I'm
just saying, 'Lord, help us.'"
Robertson, as host of "The 700 Club" on his Christian Broadcasting
Network, earlier this month began the 21-day "Operation Supreme Court
Freedom." He is asking people to pray to God to change the court after its
6-3 decision in June that decriminalized sodomy.
Robertson said in a letter posted on CBN's Web site that the ruling "has
opened the door to homosexual marriage, bigamy, legalized prostitution and
even incest."
Robertson's letter did not identify anyone, but appeared to refer to specific
justices, saying: "One justice is 83 years old, another has cancer, and
another has a heart condition. Would it not be possible for God to put it in
the minds of these three judges that the time has come to retire?"
Justice John Paul Stevens was born in 1920 and Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg) had colon cancer surgery in 1999.
The reference to the third jurist was unclear.
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