Now, you can see Gothard for yourself, giving a speech on how mental illness is the result of people not taking personal responsibility for their actions.  But here’s the real show stopper:  he actually includes schizophrenia in his list of illnesses that are the result of people not taking responsibility for themselves.

That’s right—according to Bill Gothard, schizophrenia is the result of being irresponsible.  He attributes this “psychiatric finding” to the work of an unnamed “Jewish psychiatrist.”

It has been widely reported that Gothard blames rock music for societal ills, and he has claimed that cabbage patch dolls are possessed by demons.  Using weird belief systems like this, his empire creates a dominionist environment that teaches, for example, its women to be totally submissive, and other such mind-control elements.

A guy like Bill Gothard, who is even rumored to go water-skiing in his Sunday suit, is certainly not the kind of character we should expect to find hobnobbing with a serious presidential candidate.