Today on “The 700 Club,” televangelist Pat Robertson criticized proposals to have women register with the Selective Service, saying that God made women “to be a wife” and they should not “despise their calling.”

“That’s your role,” he said. “Do that. He didn’t make you to wear combat boots, carry an M-16 and shoot down the enemy.”

He continued: “Why can’t women embrace the role of wife and mother, why not? Raising the next generation is a very important function. If all the women are amazons and they’re out with muscles and F-16s fighting, who is going to take care of the kids?”

When co-host Wendy Griffith praised Israel for requiring women to enlist with the armed services, but Robertson said he knows “some stories about that too that I can’t say on television.”