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Televangelist Pat Robertson: Divorce Is Cool If Your Spouse Has Alzheimer's
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Jen Chung
Published Sep 15, 2011
Modified Sep 15, 2011
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Hey, people looking to get rid of your spouses who are afflicted with Alzheimer's, a Very Important Christian has given you an out: Pat Robertson said on the 700 Club that it's totally fine to divorce your spouse if he or she has Alzheimer's, even if you have cried while watching The Notebook.
According to the AP, Robertson was answering questions from viewers when he "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." Robertson said, "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."
When his co-host, Terry Meeuwsen, asked whether marriage vows, like taking care of each other in "sickness and in health," applied, Robertson said, "If you respect that vow, you say 'til death do us part,'" adding the disease was "a kind of death." But Robertson did also say, "Get some ethicist besides me to give you the answer." Somewhere, Newt Gingrich is wondering if Robertson will allow an out for people with spouses who have cancer.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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