For once, I totally agree with Pat Robertson.

[cleanhippie]

Motorists in Grand Junction, Colorado will see the face of the Christian Broadcasting Network's televangelist Pat Robertson on a billboard promoting the legalization of marijuana. The billboard is located just west of the intersection of business route I-70 and Main Street. The billboard is scheduled to be up until the election.

The "Yes on 64" campaign behind an initiative to regulate marijuana states that, "In a March interview in The New York Times, conservative evangelist Pat Robertson said he "absolutely" supports the initiative on the ballot in Colorado that would regulate marijuana like alcohol. 'I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol,' Robertson said. '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?'"

http://www.goddiscussion.com/98960/televangelist-pat-robertson-featured-on-billboard-campaign-for-the-legalization-of-marijuana/

I think I just found common ground with a fundy!

[pnwmom]

1. What??????

[cleanhippie]

3. I know, right? WTF???!!!??

[kestrel91316]

2. All I can figure is that a close friend or family member with a serious medical issue

is using MMJ. That's the only reason RWers ever go along with this sort of thing - when it affects them or theirs personally.

[2ndAmForComputers]

4. +1. That must be it.

See also: Cheney, Dick.

[cleanhippie]

5. "...when it affects them or theirs personally." Bingo! We need to appeal to their selfishness.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. With Pat, though, he may be onto some money making opportunity.

Probably has a plane full of seeds and pot cultivation stuff sitting on a runway ready to fly to the first warm state that legalizes it.

[dmallind]

7. ya know it is - just - possible he is being consistent that's all.

After all if you look to the Bible for all answers Genesis 1:12 comes into play.

[rrneck]

8. Dude, you just startled the shit out of me. nt

[onager]

9. A few right-wingers are consistent that way

e.g., Raymond Hoiles, the California arch-conservative and founder of Orange County's daily newspaper, the Register.

In the Sixties, when the Neo-derthals really had their Tighty-Righties in a twist about Demon Dope, Hoiles shocked his readers by opposing ALL drug laws, Federal, state or local. For marijuana, speed, heroin or anything else. Hoiles believed citizens should be free to ingest anything they wanted, and the state had absolutely no right to prescribe or proscribe otherwise.

And...at the bloody height of the Vietnam War, Hoiles was as opposed to military conscription as any hippie draft card burner. He considered the military draft the equivalent of slavery.