Parenting & Family Quote by Pat Robertson

The line works like a tabloid splash headline disguised as moral prophecy: stack the most culturally radioactive verbs in sight and dare the audience not to flinch. Robertson isn’t making a careful argument about feminism; he’s building a panic machine. Each clause escalates the threat from private disruption (leave their husbands) to ultimate horror (kill their children), then pivots to the supernatural (witchcraft), the political (destroy capitalism), and finally the sexual (become lesbians). It’s a tour through late-20th-century conservative anxieties, arranged to feel inevitable.

The intent is less persuasion than boundary-policing. By portraying feminism as an apocalyptic conveyor belt, Robertson implies that any concession to women’s autonomy invites total social collapse. The subtext is clear: traditional family structure is the hinge holding civilization together, and women are its potential saboteurs. “Witchcraft” isn’t literal so much as a coded synonym for spiritual contamination - feminism as not merely wrong, but demonic. Pairing it with “destroy capitalism” collapses feminism into communism, an old Cold War reflex that treats social reform as a Trojan horse for ideological takeover.

Context matters: this is culture-war rhetoric from an era when the Christian Right was consolidating power through television, fundraising, and electoral influence. The point is to mobilize, not to clarify - to fuse disparate fears into one enemy so followers don’t debate policy, they defend a way of life. The quote’s enduring ugliness is also its effectiveness: it turns a movement for rights into a horror story, and makes disgust feel like discernment.