Robertson OK w/Alzheimers Divorce
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson told his “700 Club” viewers that divorcing a spouse with Alzheimer’s
disease is justifiable because the disease is “a kind of death.” During the portion of the show where the one-time Republican presidential candidate takes questions from viewers, Robertson was asked what advice a man should give to a friend who began seeing another woman after his wife started suffering from the incurable neurological disorder. “I know it sounds cruel, but if he’s going to do something, he should divorce her and start all over again, but make sure she has custodial care and somebody looking after her,” Robertson said/
Tom Breen
, AP.
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Question: Can you picture the Apostles Peter, Paul, James, John, etc., opining that it’s OK to broom your mate simply because s/he is suffering from Alzheimers?
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