Pat Robertson, the evangelical broadcaster known for the '700 Club' and the founder of the Christian Coalition, has died. He was 93 years old.
Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition, has died. He was 93.
Washington: Television evangelist Pat Robertson talks to supporters at Constitution Hall in DC declaring that God made his decision and said he is ready to run for president. Robertson started the Christian Coalition in Chesapeake in 1989, saying it would further his campaign's ideals. The coalition became a major force in Republican politics in the 1990s, mobilizing conservative voters through grass-roots activities.
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson was born March 22, 1930, in Lexington, Virginia, to Absalom Willis Robertson and Gladys Churchill Robertson. His father served for 36 years as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Virginia. Robertson was interested in politics until he found religion, Dede Robertson told the AP in 1987 . He stunned her by pouring out their liquor, tearing a nude print off the wall and declaring he had found the Lord.
"Here's a well-educated person having sophisticated conversations with a wide variety of guests on a wide variety of topics," said Green, the University of Akron political science professor. "It was with a religious inflection to be sure. But it was an approach that took up everyday concerns." Robertson also could be unpredictable: In 2010, he called for ending mandatory prison sentences for marijuana possession convictions. Two years later, he said on the "700 Club" that marijuana should be legalized and treated like alcohol because the government's war on drugs had failed.
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