Pat Robertson has many opinions on
subjects including homosexuality, politics and the coming of the Mark of the
Beast, but it was the famous televangelist’s opinion on marriage that took
center stage during Wednesday’s episode of his daily television program, “The
700 Club.” Responding to a question from a viewer, Robertson said that married men
“have a tendency to wander “and it is the spurned wife’s job to focus on the
positive and make sure the home is so enticing, he doesn’t want to stray. “I’ve
been trying to forgive my husband for cheating on me,” the viewer writes. “We
have gone to counseling, but I just can’t seem to forgive, nor can I trust. How
do you let go of the anger? How do you trust again?” While Robertson’s co-host
hedged on the question, calling forgiveness “difficult” and spousal infidelity
“one of the ultimate betrayals,” Robertson got right to the point.
“Here’s the secret,” the famous evangelical
said. “Stop talking the cheating. He cheated on you, well, he’s a man.” The
wife needs to focus on the reasons she married her spouse, he continued. “Does
he provide a home for you to live in,” Robertson said. ‘Does he provide food
for you to eat? Does he provide clothes for you to wear? Is he nice to the
children… Is he handsome?” Robertson also offered a little advice on the
“tendency of man.” “Recognize also, like it or not, males have a tendency to
wander a little bit,” Robertson said. “What you want to do is make a home so
wonderful that he doesn’t want to wander” or give in to the “salacious”
magazine pictures and Internet filled with sh*t. This is certainly not
Robertson’s first foray into anecdotal marital counseling, however.
In January, Robertson told viewers
that “awful-looking” women can cause marriages to lose their spark. “It just
isn’t something to just lie there, ‘Well, I’m married to him so he’s got to
take me slatternly looking,’” he said. “You’ve got to fix yourself up, look
pretty.” Similarly, in 2010 the host advised a woman complaining about her
husband’s flirtatious ways not to “hassle him about it” and just make she as
attractive as possible. He also once told a husband upset that his wife didn’t
respect him that he could always just become a Muslim and you could beat her.
