NORML sounds surprised when Pat Robertson questions marijuana laws.
Pat Robertson is a media mogul, television evangelist, ex-Baptist minister and businessman who is politically aligned with the American Christian Right. Along the way, Robertson has been the founder of numerous organizations and corporations. Included on the long list is the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), the Christian Coalition, Flying Hospital, International Family Entertainment Inc., Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation, and Regent University.
He is the host of The 700 Club, a Christian TV program airing on channels throughout the United States and on CBN affiliates worldwide. Most
The son of U.S. Senator A. Willis Robertson, Robertson is a Southern Baptist and was active as an ordained minister with that denomination for many years, but holds to a charismatic theology not traditionally common among Southern Baptists. He unsuccessfully campaigned to become the Republican Party’s nominee in the 1988 presidential election. As a result of his seeking political office, he no longer serves in an official role for any church. His media and financial resources make him a recognized, influential, and controversial public voice for conservative Christianity in the United States.
The NORML blog sounds surprised, but if you ask me…. I believe anyone who actually takes the time to look will find some flaw in the current laws regarding marijuana. Check out the NORML Blog for the video and watch at least the first 4 minutes and 20 seconds as Pat Robertson and his crew talk about pot, maybe a good one to share with your Republican legislators?
Break out the recorders! Don’t let this one get away!
If I didn’t watch it with my own eyes I might not believed it possible: Televangelist and former Baptist minister Pat Robertson making a cogent argument on alternatives to arresting and incarcerating citizens who use drugs, with a clear emphasis on legalizing the possession of a few ounces of cannabis.
The 700 Club segment on alternatives to crime helps promote a new right-of-center organization that seeks to actively lobby for reform of the criminal justice system principally as a poor use of scant public funds called Right on Crime. Notable conservative activists such as Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist, American Conservative Union’s David Keane and Prison Fellowship Ministries’ Pat Nolan are spearheading this important new front in the now 40-year-old effort to reform cannabis laws.
Also, with unbelievable karmic timing, Pat Robertson endorses ending Cannabis Prohibition for possession of a few ounces at the 4:20 mark of the video.
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