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Pat Robertson: How Dare Muslims Try To Impose Religious Law On America! That's My Job

Irony died a little bit today on “The 700 Club” when televangelist Pat Robertson defended Ben Carson’s statement(link is external) he would never vote for a Muslim candidate for president unless that candidate renounced(link is external) their religion, warning that a Muslim president would be dangerous because any “committed Muslim” would try to impose religious law on America.

Hailing Carson for “telling the truth” about Islam, Robertson said(link is external) that “a committed Muslim would do exactly what ISIS is doing” and “put in Sharia law.”

Of course, this is the same(link is external) preacher(link is external) who believes(link is external) the U.S. must align its laws with his reading of the Bible and abandon(link is external) the separation of church and state or face God’s wrath(link is external).