DRMIZER
11-18-2003, 09:30 AM
Marion "Pat" Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition and the 700 Club, told Christian Coalition supporters at their 1998 Road to Victory conference in Washington D.C. that Bill "Slick Willie" Clinton is a , "debauched, debased and defamed" leader. Robertson called for the impeachment of Clinton. Marion said, "For nearly nine months, we have seen one man wreak havoc on our most noble office. For nine months, we have been mocked, demeaned, belittled and lied to.
We have been forced, ourselves and our children, to endure an account so lurid that if it were made into a movie it would have been triple X rated." HYPOCRISY CHECK When Marion Robertson ran for President in 1988 he too lied to the media and American people about sex. In Robertson's case his wife and son were directly involved in the lie. For years he lied to people about the date of his marriage. According to the Religious News Service of October 9, 1987, when he married, his wife was already seven months pregnant. I guess he did a lot more than just the "laying on of hands!"
MARION'S LATEST ADVENTURES
Marion's business deals frequently seem less than above board. For example, the Christian Broadcasting Network bought the Family Channel with "love offerings" from supporters of the 700 Club. He and his son Tim then bought it for next to nothing for themselves from his corporation CBN after it was obvious that it was a money maker. They then took the Family Channel public and made about 90 million dollars in stock sales. Less than a year ago he sold the Family Channel to Rupert Murdoch who's considered anti family by many.
In April of 1997 the Virginia Pilot ran an article that reported Marion Robertson's Operation Blessing is more a blessing for his finances than for the sick, poor and hungry. In the article they interviewed the chief pilot for Operation Blessing during Robertson's Zaire period, Robert Hinkle. This is during the time Marion was buying diamond mines in Africa. According to the article, "Only one or two of the roughly 40 flights could be considered humanitarian. All the rest of the flights were mining related."
So the kind, yet misguided, souls who were sending money to Operation Blessing thinking they were helping poor hungry Africans were actually helping an American millionaire make still more millions! Surely, this is NOT what Jesus would want. We challenge Marion to do what the Bible says Jesus told the rich man in Matthew 19:21 25 to do sell his possessions and give the money to the poor, not to one of his corporations.
Currently Marion's thoughts, as usual, are fixed on making still more money. His latest financial adventures involve oil. He wants to reopen oil storage tanks and an offshore terminal that was the site of a 1990 416,000 gallon oil spill off of Huntington Beach, California.
The "Reverend" formed an oil refining company called CENCO Refining Company in March of 1998. The plan is to have CENCO pumping 50,000 barrels of crude oil per day beginning in early 1999. The trouble is Marion/CENCO doesn't want to go through a full environmental impact review because, according to the Los Angeles Times, "the company is buying assets of existing firms that held permits to operate the terminal, pipeline and refinery."
Most recently Marion was trying to make a multimillion dollar bank deal with the Bank of Scotland. If the proposed deal had gone through, Robertson would have used his millions of viewers as potential bank by telephone customers through a Bank of Scotland subsidiary. This would have brought in yet MORE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS for the "Reverend." However, the deal fell through.
It seems pressure was put on the Bank of Scotland to nix the deal because of taped messages from Marion's 700 Club evangelist show. On the show Marion said, "In Europe, the big word is tolerance. Homosexuals are riding high in the media. And in Scotland, you can't believe how strong the homosexuals are. It's just unbelievable." He then referred to Scotland as a "dark land" because of this toleration.
CHRISTIAN COALITION LOSES ITS TAX EXEMPT STATUS
Marion "Pat" Robertson is also very upset about losing his tax exempt status for his political machine, the Christian Coalition. The Coalition hands out millions of voter "guides" to tell the Christian faithful which candidates voted along with its agenda and which did not. They had been doing this under the guise of "religion." But now, with a recent IRS ruling, they must start paying taxes!
Pat was making the rounds to his political flunkies in the U.S. Senate to call for a "Senate inquiry" into the IRS decision. Could you imagine Jesus making the rounds in the Roman Senate to get special tax treatment???
NEWEST HYPOCRISY
The AP reported on 7.17.99 that Robertson's Operation Blessing, which he portrays on the 700 Club as THEIR efforts to help the poor and homeless, was denied federal funding. Robertson not only takes in tens of thousands of dollars from 700 Club members but also DID take in tens of thousands of dollars from the federal government! What a scam!
Operation Blessing secured a $50,000.00 federal grant to help take care of the poor. Please keep in mind that Robertson never tires of attacking "big government" and federal assistance. Yet he doesn't mind taking $50,000.00 from the feds! What a deceitful "reverend."
The reason Operation Blessing was denied the grant from the federal government is because they ask on their applications for assistance from the poor if the applicants consider themselves saved from eternal damnation because they are observant Christians.
Could you imagine the civil unrest that will ravage the United States if the various differing religious fundamentalist groups are given huge amounts of tax dollars to what amounts to recruiting the poor and homeless to their particular zealot organization?
We have been forced, ourselves and our children, to endure an account so lurid that if it were made into a movie it would have been triple X rated." HYPOCRISY CHECK When Marion Robertson ran for President in 1988 he too lied to the media and American people about sex. In Robertson's case his wife and son were directly involved in the lie. For years he lied to people about the date of his marriage. According to the Religious News Service of October 9, 1987, when he married, his wife was already seven months pregnant. I guess he did a lot more than just the "laying on of hands!"
MARION'S LATEST ADVENTURES
Marion's business deals frequently seem less than above board. For example, the Christian Broadcasting Network bought the Family Channel with "love offerings" from supporters of the 700 Club. He and his son Tim then bought it for next to nothing for themselves from his corporation CBN after it was obvious that it was a money maker. They then took the Family Channel public and made about 90 million dollars in stock sales. Less than a year ago he sold the Family Channel to Rupert Murdoch who's considered anti family by many.
In April of 1997 the Virginia Pilot ran an article that reported Marion Robertson's Operation Blessing is more a blessing for his finances than for the sick, poor and hungry. In the article they interviewed the chief pilot for Operation Blessing during Robertson's Zaire period, Robert Hinkle. This is during the time Marion was buying diamond mines in Africa. According to the article, "Only one or two of the roughly 40 flights could be considered humanitarian. All the rest of the flights were mining related."
So the kind, yet misguided, souls who were sending money to Operation Blessing thinking they were helping poor hungry Africans were actually helping an American millionaire make still more millions! Surely, this is NOT what Jesus would want. We challenge Marion to do what the Bible says Jesus told the rich man in Matthew 19:21 25 to do sell his possessions and give the money to the poor, not to one of his corporations.
Currently Marion's thoughts, as usual, are fixed on making still more money. His latest financial adventures involve oil. He wants to reopen oil storage tanks and an offshore terminal that was the site of a 1990 416,000 gallon oil spill off of Huntington Beach, California.
The "Reverend" formed an oil refining company called CENCO Refining Company in March of 1998. The plan is to have CENCO pumping 50,000 barrels of crude oil per day beginning in early 1999. The trouble is Marion/CENCO doesn't want to go through a full environmental impact review because, according to the Los Angeles Times, "the company is buying assets of existing firms that held permits to operate the terminal, pipeline and refinery."
Most recently Marion was trying to make a multimillion dollar bank deal with the Bank of Scotland. If the proposed deal had gone through, Robertson would have used his millions of viewers as potential bank by telephone customers through a Bank of Scotland subsidiary. This would have brought in yet MORE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS for the "Reverend." However, the deal fell through.
It seems pressure was put on the Bank of Scotland to nix the deal because of taped messages from Marion's 700 Club evangelist show. On the show Marion said, "In Europe, the big word is tolerance. Homosexuals are riding high in the media. And in Scotland, you can't believe how strong the homosexuals are. It's just unbelievable." He then referred to Scotland as a "dark land" because of this toleration.
CHRISTIAN COALITION LOSES ITS TAX EXEMPT STATUS
Marion "Pat" Robertson is also very upset about losing his tax exempt status for his political machine, the Christian Coalition. The Coalition hands out millions of voter "guides" to tell the Christian faithful which candidates voted along with its agenda and which did not. They had been doing this under the guise of "religion." But now, with a recent IRS ruling, they must start paying taxes!
Pat was making the rounds to his political flunkies in the U.S. Senate to call for a "Senate inquiry" into the IRS decision. Could you imagine Jesus making the rounds in the Roman Senate to get special tax treatment???
NEWEST HYPOCRISY
The AP reported on 7.17.99 that Robertson's Operation Blessing, which he portrays on the 700 Club as THEIR efforts to help the poor and homeless, was denied federal funding. Robertson not only takes in tens of thousands of dollars from 700 Club members but also DID take in tens of thousands of dollars from the federal government! What a scam!
Operation Blessing secured a $50,000.00 federal grant to help take care of the poor. Please keep in mind that Robertson never tires of attacking "big government" and federal assistance. Yet he doesn't mind taking $50,000.00 from the feds! What a deceitful "reverend."
The reason Operation Blessing was denied the grant from the federal government is because they ask on their applications for assistance from the poor if the applicants consider themselves saved from eternal damnation because they are observant Christians.
Could you imagine the civil unrest that will ravage the United States if the various differing religious fundamentalist groups are given huge amounts of tax dollars to what amounts to recruiting the poor and homeless to their particular zealot organization?