His religious, sometimes provocative, views seeped into American politics and gave Christian conservatives clout. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON – Mr Pat Robertson, the television evangelist with a passion for politics who marshalled Christian conservatives into a powerful constituency that helped Republicans capture both houses of Congress in 1994, has died. He was 93.
The show, which debuted in 1966, brought Mr Robertson to the fore of Christianity’s charismatic movement. He crafted a long-term contract to keep the programme airing through several subsequent sales of CBN’s Family Channel. A year later, with 3.3 million signatures, he resigned as a Southern Baptist minister to launch his campaign.
But he was also given to statements that his detractors saw as outlandishly wrongheaded and dangerously incendiary. When Mr Robertson was two, his father, a one-time state senator, was elected to the US House, serving 14 years before being appointed to a vacant Senate seat. After earning a law degree in 1955, Mr Robertson failed the New York bar examination and soon afterward became a born-again Christian. He enrolled in the Biblical Seminary of New York, later renamed New York Theological Seminary.
The show gained viewers as Mr Robertson bought time on television stations in other cities and made the programme available to cable TV operators.To gain a wider audience, Mr Robertson decided in 1981 to eliminate all religious programmes except for the 700 Club from the cable network.
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