Politics & Power Quote by Pat Robertson

Robertson’s line reads less like a description of feminism than an exorcism: a rapid-fire list of alleged sins meant to summon disgust before anyone can ask for evidence. The rhetoric is pure culture-war alchemy. By stacking “socialist,” “anti-family,” “witchcraft,” “destroy capitalism,” and “become lesbians,” he collapses disparate anxieties into a single cartoon villain, turning a political movement into a demonic conspiracy. It’s not an argument; it’s a catechism for panic.

The specific intent is to police boundaries - religious, sexual, economic - by framing feminism as an existential threat rather than a set of claims about rights and power. The “anti-family” tag isn’t accidental. It positions the patriarchal family as the primary unit of moral order, so any renegotiation of gender roles becomes apostasy. “Leave their husbands” and “kill their children” weaponize two archetypal fears: female autonomy and reproductive control. “Become lesbians” functions as both insult and warning, a reminder that deviating from heterosexual norms will be cast as contagious and socially corrosive.

Context matters: Robertson was a televangelist operating in the late 20th-century rise of the Religious Right, when feminism, gay rights, and secularism were fused into a single enemy for fundraising and mobilization. The subtext is strategic: if feminism is framed as spiritually toxic and politically totalitarian, then compromise becomes complicity. Demonization does what debate can’t - it keeps followers loyal by making the outside world feel not merely wrong, but wicked.