RNC Faith Liaison: Supreme Court Will Bring Religious Right Voters To Trump

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SUBMITTED BY Peter Montgomery on Thursday, 5/26/2016 5:34 pm

The Republican Party’s faith outreach director, former South Carolina GOP chair Chad Connelly, says conservative Christians will vote for Donald Trump based on the future of the Supreme Court.

The biggest thing on evangelicals’ minds, I think, is the fact that we’re gonna be looking at a Supreme Court that could be vastly different going forward. And electing somebody like Hillary Clinton, who is obviously biased against the things that most evangelicals, Christians believe in, would be disastrous for religious liberty, for property rights, gun rights, religious freedom and stuff like that. I think it’s gonna settle out just fine and our folks will go our way.

Connelly told CBN’s Heather Sells that his friends and fellow church members had been split among Republican candidates, but that voters have now “given us two choices.” Trump’s plans to meet with Religious Right leaders and activists next month are, said Connelly, a sign that Trump knows you “don’t leave anybody out, especially not the base.”

Connelly travels the country encouraging pastors to register their congregants to vote and convince them to cast ballots based on a “biblical worldview.” Like speakers at virtually every Religious Right gathering, he said that what’s happened to the country “is literally our fault” because pastors haven’t preached aggressively enough. “Voting is not political,” he said, “it’s spiritual. It’s our witness and testimony to the community of what we believe in.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rnc-faith-liaison-supreme-court-will-bring-religious-right-voters-trump#sthash.TXiomt5x.dpuf

[redstatebluegirl]

1. Terrifying

I see this all the time here in Oklahoma. Pastors telling their flocks if they vote for a Democrat they are not real Christians. I really hate the "Biblical world view" this is no different than the Taliban.

I have no issue with people practicing their religion, or voting based on their beliefs. What I take issue with is bringing your religion into my life uninvited. It does not belong in our government or our politics.

We have to get the people who believe in a separation of Church and State to vote, all the time, not just in the big one! Believe me, the other side is really good at getting their people out to vote!

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2. Connelly is particularly unsavory.

Big time teabagger.

[wendylaroux]

3. religious left do too.

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4. I hope so.

[wendylaroux]

5. separating the common man is what ruined this country.

religion just another way to do it.

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6. Separating them from what?

[wendylaroux]

7. each other

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8. Ah. Next to nationalism, religion is a most powerful tool to divide.

Which is probably why rulers use it so often.

[wendylaroux]

9. used properly it is quite wonderful.

I think peop0le using it to divide is the one

thing that makes God cuss like a sailor.