TV Evangelist Pat Robertson is no stranger to controversy, now the conservative Christian leader's recent marrital advice to a wife struggling to forgive her husband for cheating is raising more than a few eyebrows.
Speaking on Wednesday's episode of "The 700 Club," Robertson was asked by a female viewer named Ivy how she should cope with her spouse's infidelity.
"I've been trying to forgive my husband for cheating on me. We have gone to counseling, but I just can't seem to forgive, nor can I trust," the wife explained.
"How do you let go of the anger? How do you trust again? God says to forgive, but it's been so hard to do. I want to forgive, so we can get on with our lives," she added.
Robertson's co-host first commented saying that "forgiveness could be one of the most difficult things in the whole wide world to do, and especially when it comes to the spouse, because that's one of the ultimate betrayals."
However, the 83-year-old former Southern Baptist Minister took a different approach to the question. Robertson suggested that because married men "have a tendency to wander," it is a woman's job to focus on the positive and make sure the home is so "wonderful" to prevent him from straying.
"Here's the secret," the famous evangelical said. "Stop talking the cheating. He cheated on you, well, he's a man."
Instead, Robertson told Ivy she should focus on the reasons she married her spouse. For example, "Does he provide a home for you to live in, Does he provide food for you to eat? Does he provide clothes for you to wear? Is he nice to the children... Is he handsome?" he asked.
He continued saying, "Like it or not, males have a tendency to wander a little bit," Robertson said. "What you want to do is make a home so wonderful that he doesn't want to wander" or give in to the "salacious" magazine pictures and Internet filled with porn.
Watch Robertson give marrital advice below.
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