In Shocker Pat Robertson Endorses Social Liberal Arnold Schwarzenegger

NEW YORK, September 4, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a shocking report by Matt Drudge of the famous Drudge Report, Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition, has come out endorsing pro-abortion actor Arnorld Schwarzenegger for Republican Governor of California.  On MSNBC’s Buchanan and the Press yesterday, host Pat Buchanan asked about Schwarzenegger, “He is pro abortion, he is pro gay rights, he’s got a lifestyle we could call bodybuilder lifestyle that you’ve been reading about. Pat Robertson should Christians in good conscience, can they vote for Arnold Schwarzenegger?” Robertson responded, “Well you know, I’m a body builder. I do some pretty heavy weightlifting, so I think the weightlifters of the world need to unite. I tell you what those guys in California could use a big bruiser to knock some heads together. I mean they’re out of control over there. So what are they gonna do? I mean you gonna have Bustamante who is sort of the governor Gray Davis light? They don’t want anymore Davis, so who else you gonna put in? I think you don’t have anybody else that’s coming up on the radar so the other alternative is just stay home.”  It is not the first time Robertson has stunned social conservatives by placing utilitarian pragmatics above serious moral considerations.  In 2001 Robertson infuriated pro-life Americans with comments seeming to justify China’s horrific coercive family planning program.  He said, “Well, you know, I don’t agree with it. But at the same time, they’ve got 1.2 billion people, and they don’t know what to do. If every family over there was allowed to have three or four children, the population would be completely unsustainable. … So, I think that right now they’re doing what they have to do. I don’t agree with the forced abortion, but I don’t think the United States needs to interfere with what they’re doing internally in this regard.”  See related LifeSite coverage:  PAT ROBERTSON DEFENDS CHINA’S FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAM www.lifesite.net/ldn/2001/apr/01041701.html