TV & VIDEO - Feb. 2, 1987

Televangelist Pat Robertson offers some singular thoughts about American history. In a United Press International interview, the Christian broadcaster and would-be 1988 presidential candidate said he interprets the signing of the Declaration of Independence as the date in which the Founding Fathers recognized God as the giver of inalienable rights. He sees Jan. 20, 1920, when the American Civil Liberties Union was founded, as the beginning of the end of the rights of the majority in the United States. His ideas are contained in a new book, “America’s Dates With Destiny,” in which he states that the nation has strayed from “its spiritual roots” primarily due to the ideas of Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein and Karl Marx.