Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition, has died. He was 93.
Robertson's death Thursday was confirmed in an email by his broadcasting network. No cause was given.
Robertson pioneered the now-common strategy of courting Iowa's network of evangelical Christian churches, and finished in second place in the Iowa caucuses, ahead of Vice President George H.W. Bush. Robertson started the Christian Coalition in Chesapeake in 1989, saying it would further his campaign's ideals. The coalition became a major political force in the 1990s, mobilizing conservative voters through grass-roots activities.
After graduating from Washington and Lee University, he served as assistant adjutant of the 1st Marine Division in Korea. They moved into a commune in New York City's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood because Robertson said God told him to sell all his possessions and minister to the poor. She was tempted to return home to Ohio,"but I realized that was not what the Lord would have me do ... I had promised to stay, so I did," she told the AP.
His guests eventually included several U.S. presidents -- Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.He claimed that the terrorist attacks that killed thousands of Americans on Sept. 11, 2001 were caused by God, angered by the federal courts, pornography, abortion rights and church-state separation. Talking again about 9/11 on his TV show a year later, Robertson described Islam as a violent religion that wants to"dominate" and"destroy," prompting President George W.
Robertson also could be unpredictable: In 2010, he called for ending mandatory prison sentences for marijuana possession convictions. Two years later, he said on the"700 Club" that marijuana should be legalized and treated like alcohol because the government's war on drugs had failed.
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