Anti-Gay, Anti-Muslim Pastor To Deliver Inauguration Day Sermon To Trump

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo


By MATT SHUHAM Published JANUARY 19, 2017, 4:55 PM EDT

A conservative evangelical preacher with a history of making inflammatory statements about gays and Muslims is expected to preach at the traditional pre-inaugural morning service Friday at St. John’s Episcopal Church.

Rev. Luis León, rector of St. John's Episcopal, told CNN about the plan to have Rev. Robert Jeffress, a Southern Baptist and a fervent supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, deliver a sermon in the private service. Another unnamed source involved in the service told the network that Jeffress was scheduled to take part in it.

Jeffress has built a reputation for attacking other religions over the years, especially in his capacity as a commentator on Fox News.

In 2010, Jeffress said Islam promoted pedophilia, violence and the oppression of women, claims he has often repeated. The worst thing about Islam, he said at the time, “is that it is a deception that leads people from the true God."

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/robert-jeffress-trump-pre-inaugural-preacher

[tenorly]

1. "When fascism comes to America," Sinclair Lewis observed,

"it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."

And, like Hitler, financed with loads of dirty money.

[dalton99a]

20. +1

[hrmjustin]

2. Jeffrey's has no business in an Episcopalian Church!

Really pissed off about this!

[Crash2Parties]

22. Why is that, please?

[hrmjustin]

23. We are an inclusive church! The devil has no place spewing his bigotry in one of our churches.

[Crash2Parties]

24. I've never understood why inclusive churches don't stand up more to the H8-ing ones.

I do appreciate that they are so inclusive, but they do it so quietly that America simply now assumes that Christian = anti-women, anti-lgbt, anti-(minority group here)...

[hrmjustin]

29. Our churches don't have the numbers they do and our clergy are not as interested

in getting their faces on TV as theirs are.

Are clergy run actually churches and deal with people on a one-to-one basis. They have money making mega churches that are there just to make money.

The press ignores us for the most part so we are invisible to them.

[Crash2Parties]

30. Thank you. Now I can no longer say that. :-)

Also, thank you & your church for being nice.

[hrmjustin]

31. .

[Angry Dragon]

3. isn't he the one that was burning Qurans??

[christx30]

9. That was Terry Jones, in Florida. n/t

[Angry Dragon]

40. thank you

[Fred Sanders]

4. The hatred and intolerance being permitted by Trump is beyond disgusting, it is unAmerican

in the extreme.

How do these so called Christians live with so much hate and still evoke God´s name?

[elmac]

5. With the heavy smell of sulfur in the air

[Paladin]

6. Looks like the new regime will live down to our expectations, from the beginning. (nt)

[democrank]

7. Once you assemble all of Comrade Trumps pieces

the jig saw picture becomes quite clear.

[OldRedneck]

8. "That Man"

Republicans so hated Franklin Roosevelt they would not speak his name, referring to him instead as "That Man."

I have promised myself not to speak or write the name of the piece of shit who will be sworn in as President on January 20, 2017, referring instead to him as "That Man." I know -- sounds like sour grapes but it's my grapes.

So -- if you agree, find your own pet name for That Man and use it until he's impeached.

Dead going on 60 years, FDR still makes self-styled champions of American-style capitalism fulminate, much the same way their counterparts in the 1930s raged against "That Man." Why? The New Deal era reminds national greatness Republicans like Wehner of their party's futility in a time of true national greatness. I also suspect that many Republicans are simply unable to forgive Roosevelt for what may have been his greatest and longest-lasting achievement: saving American capitalism through regulation. And since they can't tear down the Triborough Bridge or the Hoover Dam, these guys act out by going after Social Security.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2005/01/hes_still_that_man.html

[dhol82]

28. I will continue to call him idiot fuckface

It fits.

[Ms. Toad]

10. Rick Warren. Just sayin'

[Hissyspit]

11. Yup.

I turned my back at the inauguration. And I was on the front lawn.

[Ms. Toad]

16. I was at home - couldn't even watch the inauguration

When Obama won the election, I was so looking forward to celebrating the inauguration of the first African American president. The first presidential election in ages I was really excited about - but the inclusion of Warren in such a prominent role just made me ill.

(Not as ill as Trump makes me, by any stretch of the imagination, but as to this aspect of the inauguration - we're living in a glass house, I'm afraid.)

[m-lekktor]

27. first thing i thought of, too! lol nt

[joshcryer]

33. Perfect example of a person reaching across the isle.

To pander to the then deplorables.

[riderinthestorm]

38. Remember "It's just a little prayer?"

We were told to shut up.@ Rick Warren. I remember

[YOHABLO]

12. It's not just Trump: It's the Republican agenda. They're the puppet masters

[keithbvadu2]

13. Trump gives a message ---- "Drink my little wine, have my little cracker"

Like today's evangelical supporters, Trump is a Political Christian, not a Christian of faith.

Evangelicals are easily able to spin their beliefs for political expediency.

The Donald who does not have to ask Jesus for forgiveness.
.

Super-Christian Trump has chosen a pastor who has stated "stated that Satan created Roman Catholicism".

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-taps-anti-gay-anti-catholic-anti-mormon-pastor-robert-jeffress-for-prayer-service/

For Trump who says Holy Communion is "Drink my little wine, have my little cracker".

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/08/13/donald-trump-religion-serfaty-dnt-erin.cnn

Nice message to the country from the Donald!!

[Dawson Leery]

14. This is why Democrats should not attend.

[dalton99a]

19. Exactly.

[Dawson Leery]

21. The GOP is going in the direction of the Nazi party.

[Initech]

15. People like Jeffress are exactly why we can't have nice things.

[orangecrush]

17. Good

Let him show the world Trumps true colors.

[dalton99a]

18. Same guy who called the Catholic Church a "genius of Satan"

[uppityperson]

25. Well, isn't that just precious?

[RKP5637]

26. Yeah, bringing the country together. This ass, Trump, is so demonic words pale to describe him. n/t

[cpamomfromtexas]

32. I saw him preach as a guest. Disgusting

Wish I had made a video and sent it to the IRS. It was about the election last time around.

[Coventina]

34. Title of the sermon, as reported this morning is, "When God Chooses A Leader"

No god I would ever worship chose Trump.

[Dave Starsky]

36. So now Putin is God?

Is there no end to their blasphemies?

[Coventina]

37. Good catch!!

[itcfish]

35. You Forgot to add

VERY VERY ANTI-CATHOLIC and ANTI-JEWISH or at least I did not see it.

[Paladin]

39. Jeffress is a genuine piece of right-wing filth.

I'm not at all surprised to see him taking part in the trump rites.