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Blinn · 04-29-2002, 03:55 AM

Speaking of hypocritical right wing religio-nuts, here's this from this week's Top Ten Conservative Idiots:

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Pat Robertson
From the "practice what you preach" file: Pat Robertson, a God-fearing Christian man, believes that gambling is a sin. But apparently lining one's own pockets with dirty gambling money is A-OK. Consider: Last week it was reported that the oh-so-Right Reverend Robertson owns a racehorse, Mr. Pat. (In naming the horse, it seems that Rev. Pat forgot that vanity was one of the seven deadly sins.) Of course, Rev. Pat sees no contradiction between condemning gambling and owning racehorses. "I don't bet on my own horses, and I don't think anyone else should either," he said. Pat owns racehorses because he likes to "look at them as performers and study their bloodlines." You see, the gambling isn't his problem because he's not gambling. By Pat's awesome moral logic, one could argue that drug users are sinners, but drug dealers are just people who enjoy a good vacation to Colombia once in a while.

<a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/02/65.html" target="_blank">The Top Ten Conservative Idiots (No. 65)</a>

[ April 29, 2002: Message edited by: Zetek ]</p>

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