Pat Robertson strikes us as neither a joker, a smoker, nor a midnight toker. But, in a recent statement to the New York Times, the aging TV evangelist renewed a previously voiced opinion of his that our legal system should treat marijuana like alcohol. Reactions so far have been mixed:
The news this week was met by evangelical magazine Christianity Today with this headline: “Pat Robertson Thinks It’s High Time To Legalize Marijuana.”
Well-known evangelical blogger Brett McCracken, managing editor of Biola Magazine at Biola University, said young evangelicals “laugh at Robertson,” as a caricature of an evangelist and wouldn’t see him as a role model, even if their cohort would be expected to be more open to legalizing drugs.
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