'You have got to fix yourself up - look pretty, look alert:' Christian conservative T.V. host Pat Robertson blames 'awful-looking' women for failed marriages

'A woman came to a preacher I know — it’s so funny,' said Robertson, host of the 700 Club. 'She was awful-looking. Her hair was all torn up, she was overweight and looked terrible, clothes bad and everything, and she said, "Oh Reverend, what can I do? My husband has started to drink." 

'And the preacher looked at her and he said: "Madam, if I were married to you, I'd start to drink too."'

Robertson chuckled and added, 'We need to cultivate romance, darling.'

'You always have to keep that spark of love alive,' he said. 'It isn't something to just lie there [and think] "Well I'm married to him, so he's got to take me slatternly-looking