Marion Gordon Robertson is an American media mogul, televangelist, political commentator, and former Republican presidential candidate. Robertson advocates a conservative Christian ideology and is known for his past activities in Republican party politics. He is associated with the Charismatic Movement within Protestant evangelicalism. His family includes four children, among them Gordon P. Robertson and Tim Robertson and, as of mid-2016, 14 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.
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Marion Gordon Robertson is an American media mogul, televangelist, political commentator, and former Republican presidential candidate. Robertson advocates a conservative Christian ideology and is known for his past activities in Republican party politics. He is associated with the Charismatic Movement within Protestant evangelicalism. Robertson is a best-selling author and the host of The 700 Club, a Christian News and TV program broadcast live weekdays on Freeform via satellite from CBN studios, as well as on channels throughout the U.S. and on CBN network affiliates worldwide. He unsuccessfully campaigned to become the Republican Party’s nominee in the 1988 presidential election. His personal influence and media and financial resources make him a recognized, influential, and controversial public voice for conservative Christianity in the United States. His family includes four children, among them Gordon P. Robertson and Tim Robertson and, as of mid-2016, 14 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren. His parents were Absalom Willis Robertson, a conservative Democratic Senator, and his wife Gladys Churchill, was a housewife and a musician. His father was a Southern Baptist and was active as an ordained minister with that denomination for many years, but holds to a charismatic theology not traditionally common among Southern Baptists. His strong awareness for the importance of names in the creation of a public image showed itself again during his presidential run when he threatened to sue NBC news for calling him a \”television evangelist\”, which later became \”televangelist\”, at a time when Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker were objects of scandal.
He considered his first name to be effeminate, so he opted for his childhood nickname \”Pat\”. He is married to Adelia Elmer, a fashion model and beauty queen in the Miss Ohio State contest, who was studying for her masters in Nursing at Yale University. They were married on August 26, 1954, and have four children and 14 grandchildren. He has a son and a daughter-in-law who are both business executives and have been married for more than 30 years. He also has a stepson and a stepdaughter who have been in the military for over 30 years and have a daughter and a son- in-law, both of whom are also business executives. His son is the CEO of Regent University and chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network. His daughter is the president and CEO of the International Family Entertainment Inc. and is the founder of the American Center for Law & Justice, a nonprofit that provides legal and social services to the developing world. He says he was not a serious Christian until he underwent personal difficulty. He graduated near the top of his class at Yale Law School in 1955, but failed the New York bar exam. In the ensuing months of what he later described as disappointment, embarrassment, and unemployment, he became a born-again Christian and began a career as a minister. He joined the Marine Corps in 1948 and was given the option of joining the Army or being drafted into the Army. Robertson has described his military service as ‘Punchbowl’ and ‘Heartbreak’
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