Not only is Pat Robertson against mandatory vaccinations, but he's more worried about water flouridation a la Dr. Strangelove than your kids getting sick from mumps or measles.

“I’m sure that there’s some serious consequences to measles and perhaps vaccinations is the answer, but I don’t think any parent should be forced by the government to vaccinate,” he said. “There was a vaccination against polio and I know the mother of a friend contracted polio from the vaccine so all vaccines are not benign. But so far this one about whooping cough and diphtheria and measles has been very effective and I think it was a good thing to do but the problem is, natural immunity is a pretty good thing and if you have some of these diseases when you’re a kid you have immunity the rest of your life.”

Robertson linked his criticisms of vaccine mandates to water fluoridation: “I just think that we’ve got to be careful that we fall for these nostrums, you know, you have to put fluoride in all of the water because it will cut down on cavities. But what does fluoride do to people? We don’t know some of the consequences, we don’t have all of the knowledge we need and we should be very careful not to force people to do stuff that they earnestly feel they shouldn’t do.”

Yes, we should all just let our children get sick and suffer while at the same time opening up the possibility that other children could get contaminated as a result of the contagion these diseases pose just because kids should live through the experience. What a guy.