Evangelicals' embrace of Donald Trump may cost them the future

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https://www.salon.com/2018/07/30/evangelicals-embrace-of-donald-trump-may-cost-them-the-future/

Amanda Marcotte at Salon


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All of this creates yet another problem for a segment of Trump's fiercest defenders: white evangelical Christian leaders. For decades, these leaders have been trying to impose a strict sexual morality on the rest of America — one that forbids premarital sex and homosexuality — through not just moral scolding but government action, including things such as abstinence-until-marriage programs in high school and restrictions on contraception and abortion meant to punish women for defying a moral code to which most Americans don't subscribe.

And now such leaders find themselves in the position of defending a thrice-married chronic adulterer who has flaunted his habit of using his wealth to get porn models and actresses into bed.

The result of this gross sexual hypocrisy will likely be twofold. To be clear, in the short term this will help President Trump by shoring up his support among the Republican base. But in the long run, this will do real damage to evangelical Christianity and to the Republican Party that depends on its support, as the pews continue to empty out of people who are increasingly disgusted with the two-faced nature of the religion.

No one can doubt that white evangelical leaders have really put their backs into making excuses for supporting Trump with all his adulteries, largely (and ironically) because Trump has been eager to help them in imposing legal penalties on women and LGBT people who have sex of any sort, no matter how harmless. Every time a new story about Trump having sex with a woman in the sexual entertainment industry crops up, some prominent minister or another is ready to make excuses.


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[Hekate]

1. If they believe in God's Judgement after death, it sure will....

It would cause righteous Schadenfreude among the rest of us if it cost them in the here and now, where we could witness it personally.

[safeinOhio]

2. They just go to the OT

for an obscure loophole.

[pansypoo53219]

3. can you say golden calf?

[workinclasszero]

7. Yup

[dalton99a]

13. +1. More:

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[smirkymonkey]

17. +1000

Sometimes you really need a cartoon to get to the heart of it.

[redwitch]

4. GOOD!

Idiots.

[Squinch]

5. I hope this is true, but I doubt it is. My policy is to never underestimate

the hypocrisy of the American evangelical voter.

When you're looking for rank hypocrisy, they never disappoint and it doesn't appear to have ever hurt them with their membership in the past.

[ProfessorPlum]

6. if hypocrisy was enough to kill Christianity,

it would have died off a thousand years ago.

We can't expect them to go away out of embarrassment. God's on their side! They know no shame.

[Achilleaze]

8. Utter, stinking, reeking hyprocrisy, thy name is 'republican evangelical'

Sick bastards have perverted "conservativism" and "christianity."

[BlueMTexpat]

9. Let us fervently

hope so!

[no_hypocrisy]

10. The Evangelicals will be ignored and viewed with disdain once Trump is out of office.

And they know that even any future republican candidate will give them lip-service and will not advance their agenda like Trump.

[kentuck]

11. They would embrace Satan (R)...

...if he had the "R" by his name.

[dalton99a]

14. Without a doubt.

[workinclasszero]

15. It's a done deal, the religious right sold their souls for Trump

their fascist god emperor.

And as their republican mega church profit centers empty out, no one is ever again going to take their pious bullshit seriously again

[tanyev]

12. Marking to read later.

[Aristus]

16. Mrs. Aristus has left the ranks of the conservative evangelicals; probably forever.

She was so repelled by the statistic that revealed 81% support for Trump among Christian evangelicals that we haven't been to church in almost two years.

She is doggedly determined to vote for every Democrat on the ballot in future elections. I'm so proud of her...

[Leith]

18. Their Love of tRump Makes Me Happy

Evangelicals and other ultra-religious types have been going on and on about how much holier they are than the rest of us. They have looked down their noses and pontificated on morality and how much better they are at it than the rest of the world.

Now their blind devotion to the White House squatter has handed us so much ammunition - their own words and deeds to throw back in their faces. This is gonna be fun.

[OnDoutside]

19. There really isn't enough public ridicule of Evangelicals.

[Martin Eden]

20. "as the pews continue to empty out of people - increasingly disgusted with the two-faced - religion"

White evangelicals feel victimized and threatened by the prospect of becoming a minority, but they are their own worst enemies.

Effing hypocrites!