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Tanuki

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4. For a self-appointed guardian of all things "moral", he sure doesn't take the sanctity
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 10:02 AM
Nov 2012

of marriage or sacred vows very seriously. He's already said you can cut your spouse loose and find someone new if the spouse has dementia. Sort of like scraping a piece of gum off your shoe, apparently.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/17/us/pat-robertson-remarks-on-alzheimers-stir-passions.html

" With his suggestion this week that a man whose wife was far “gone” with Alzheimer’s should divorce her if he wanted a new companion, the television evangelist Pat Robertson stumbled into treacherous moral terrain, setting off storms of criticism and questions about a disease that shatters lives and families.

Other conservative Christian leaders were swift to condemn his remarks as a call to violate the biblical sacrament of marriage."...(more at link)

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