Pat Robertson Dies: Religious Broadcaster And Presidential Candidate Was 93

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One of the chief things for which televangelist Pat Robertson will be remembered is his long record of anti-LGBTQ+ statements.

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Pat Robertson has died.

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.

William Earl Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who launched the Christian Broadcasting Network and was a onetime presidential candidate, has died at 93. The news was confirmed via CBN’s website. “Pat Robertson, longtime TV host, religious broadcaster, educator, humanitarian, and one-time presidential candidate died at his home in Virginia Beach early Thursday morning. He was 93,” their obituary read. A cause of death was not given. Robertson was probably best known as the host of “The 700 Club” on the network, a daily news and faith show which he hosted for over 50 years before retiring in 2021. He took a break from “The 700 Club” in the late ’80s in order to run for president, but was defeated in the Republican primary by George H. W. Bush, who ended up winning the election in 1988.

 television show, and in later years, his televised pronouncements of God's judgment on America for everything from homosexuality to the teaching of evolution.The money poured in as he solicited donations, his influence soared, and when he moved directly into politics by seeking the GOP presidential nomination in 1988, he brought a huge following with him.Robertson pioneered a now-common strategy of courting Iowa's network of evangelical Christian churches, and finished in second place in the Iowa caucuses, ahead of Vice President George H.W. Bush.His masterstroke was insisting that three million followers across the U.S.

Christian Broadcasting Network, which Robertson founded in 1960 and where he hosted “The 700 Club,” from 1966 to 2021.Robertson was a polarizing figure who presented a genial persona to his electronic flock while also making public comments that infuriated liberals, including blaming Americans’ “sinfulness” for the 9/11 attack, likening feminism to witchcraft and saying that liberal Protestants embodied “the spirit of the antichrist.” More to come…

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