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The 700 Club, Christians across America are in uproar about Tim Tebow being ousted from the Denver Broncos in place of Super Bowl champion Peyton Manning, and now televangelist Pat Robertson is summoning the wrath of God against his replacement, saying it would serve the team right if their new leader got hurt.

“You just ask yourself, OK, so Peyton Manning was a tremendous MVP quarterback, but he’s been injured. If that injury comes back, Denver will find itself without a quarterback. And in my opinion, it would serve them right,” Robertson said on The 700 Club, which airs on the Christian Broadcasting Network.

Christians across America are in uproar about Tim Tebow being ousted from the Denver Broncos in place of Super Bowl champion Peyton Manning, and now televangelist Pat Robertson is summoning the wrath of God against his replacement, saying it would serve the team right if their new leader got hurt.

“You just ask yourself, OK, so Peyton Manning was a tremendous MVP quarterback, but he’s been injured. If that injury comes back, Denver will find itself without a quarterback. And in my opinion, it would serve them right,” Robertson said

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Pat Robertson, Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says marijuana should be legalized and treated like alcohol because the government’s war on drugs has failed.

The outspoken evangelical Christian and host of ”The 700 Club” on the Virginia Beach-based Christian Broadcasting Network he founded said the war on drugs is costing taxpayers billions of dollars. He said people should not be sent to prison for marijuana possession.

The 81-year-old first became a self-proclaimed ”hero of the hippie culture” in 2010 when he called for ending mandatory prison sentences for marijuana possession convictions.

”I just think it’s shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardc*re criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of a controlled substance,” Robertson said on his show March 1. ”The whole thing is crazy. We’ve said, ‘Well, we’re conservatives, we’re tough on crime.’ That’s baloney.”

Robertson’s support for legalizing pot appeared in a New York Times story published Thursday. His spokesman confirmed to The Associated Press that Robertson supports legalization with regulation. Robertson was not made available for an interview.

”I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol,” Robertson was quoted by the newspaper as saying. ”If people can go into a liquor store and buy a bottle of alcohol and drink it at home legally, then why do we say that the use of this other substance is somehow criminal?”

Robertson said he ”absolutely” supports ballot measures in Colorado and Washington state that would allow people older than 21 to possess a small amount of marijuana and allow for commercial pot sales. Both measures, if passed by voters, would place the states at odds with federal law, which bans marijuana use of all kinds.

Pat Robertson Haiti Comments

Pat Robertson Haiti Comments:On his Christian Broadcasting Network show yesterday, Rev. Pat Robertson said that the nation of Haiti has been devastated by a large earthquake because its people “made a pact with the devil.”

“Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it,” Robertson said. “They were under the heel of the French … and they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, ‘We will serve you if you’ll get us free from the French.'”

“True story,” he continued. “And the devil said, ‘OK, it’s a deal.’ Ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after another.”

Robertson is infamous for such inflammatory statements. And not surprisingly, the reaction to the controversial pastor’s comments has been harsh.

David Waters, editor of the Washington Post’s “On Faith” online column, said the time has come for Roberston to stop.

“Considering the massive death, destruction and misery in Haiti, it is shameful for anyone — but especially a so-called minister of the gospel — to suggest that God or the poor people of Haiti had anything to do with it,” Waters wrote.

Rev. Paul Raushenbush, the religion editor for the Huffington Post, gave Robertson a harsher directive: “Go to Hell, Pat Robertson — and the sooner the better,” he wrote. “Your ‘theological’ nonsense is revolting. Don’t speak for Haiti, and don’t speak for God. Haiti is suffering a catastrophe and you offer silliness at best, and racism at the worst.”

Robertson’s comments appear to stem from a part of Haitian mythology.

Haiti became the first black republic to declare its independence in 1804, after a prolonged fight. (Read more background information about Haiti here.) It is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and has been plagued by political violence — a history some explain with religious mythology, according to one Haitian-American minister. Minister Jean R. Gelin writes that, as the story goes, a satanic pact took place on Aug. 14, 1791, during a meeting of slave leaders planning to launch their war for independence.

Haiti’s rough history includes more concrete factors which from the beginning have contributed to its unstable state. For instance, Haiti was forced to pay France 90 million francs — a huge sum — over the course of decades under the Royal Ordinance of 1825, in which French King Charles X demanded restitution for the loss of France’s colony in exchange for diplomatic recognition. The country was long oppressed by dictators and corrupt leaders.

“The people of Haiti have been used and abused by their government over the years,” Shep Smith of Fox News said yesterday in addressing Robertson’s remarks. “Hundreds of thousands of desperate human beings need our help, our support, our money, and our love. And they don’t need that.”

There are a number of ways in which people can help the victims of the earthquake, which you can check out here

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Pat Robertson Haiti Comments:Pat Robertson’s comment that Haiti has been “cursed” by a “pact to the devil” has inspired several reactions since he made the remark Wednesday afternoon.

Wednesday evening on MSNBC, Haiti’s ambassador to the US, Raymond Joseph, slammed the televangelist for the comment, explaining that the Haitian slave revolt Robertson claimed was a “pact to the devil” enabled the United States and Latin America to prosper.

Joseph argued that the Haitian slave revolt allowed the United States to make the Louisiana Purchase for just $15 million, and that it allowed Simon Bolivar to “deliver Gran Colombia and the rest of South America.”

“What pact the Haitians made with the devil has helped the United States become what it is,” Joseph said.

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Rachel Maddow called Robertson “the unintended consequence of the First Amendment.”

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And White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett reacted on “Good Morning America” Thursday, saying she was “speechless” over Robertson’s remark.

“I’m kind of speechless about that kind of remark,” Jarrett said. “Our heart goes out to the people of Haiti. … That’s not the attitude that expresses the spirit of the president or the American people, so I thought it was a pretty stunning comment to make.”