Pat Robertson, Advice On Cheating: 'Make A Home So Wonderful That He Doesn't Want To Wander' [Watch Video]

Pat Robertson argued that married men "have a tendency to wander" and it is a wife's responsibility to make sure that the home is enticing so that her husband doesn't want to stray, on Wednesday's episode of "The 700 Club."

A women, referred to as 'Ivy,' asked Robertson for advice writing, "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. 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."

Robertson's response was probably not what 'Ivy' had expected. He said, "Stop talking the cheating," and justified the man's cheating by stating, "Well, he's a man."

Later on Robertson advised 'Ivy' to, "recognize also, like it or not, males have a tendency to wander a little bit. What you want to do is make a home so wonderful that he doesn't want to wander. But think of the temptations that are out there, the internet is filled with pornography, the magazines are filled with siliceous pictures of women. Anywhere you turn around there's some solicitation to the senses to entice a man. So, what you have to do is say my husband was captured and I want to get him free..."

It seems like Robertson is claiming that it is a wife's responsibility to keep her husband on a leash so that he doesn't succumb to all the things of the world that are trying to entice him.

The Huffington Post reports that this is not the first time that Robertson has suggested that women are to blame for the failure of their marriages. In January, he suggested that "awful looking woman" are often the reason that the "spark of love" doesn't stay "alive." "First thing is you need to make yourself as attractive as possible and don't hassle him about it. And why is he doing this? Well, he's doing it because he wants affirmation that he is still a man, that he is attractive - and he gets an affirmation of himself ... But you need to not drive him away or start hassling and hounding on him, but make yourself as beautiful as you can, as fun as you can," the Christian televangelist said, according to the Post.

The New York Daily News also reports that Robertson joked on the show about wife beating in September, 2012, as he advised a man on how to put his 'rebelious' wife in her place.  In this case, however, the man who was seeking advice had mentioned that his wife had raised a hand to hit him in the past.

His advice on Wednesday was not entirely pointed. Some bits and pieces of the advice here and there seemed to resemble a fairly just approach to healing in a relationship. He advised 'Ivy' to stop focusing on the things that make her mad and "start focusing on the good stuff, and he must have something or you wouldn't have married him."

"Start focusing on those things, and in a sense you'll fall in love with him all over again," Robertson suggested.