Conservative Christians Slow To Embrace Trump

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September 10, 20168:27 AM ET
Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday
BRAKKTON BOOKER

... Many evangelical activists were slow to embrace Trump early in the primary season. But a steadily growing number on the religious right now view a potential Trump presidency as their only chance at reasserting conservative influence at the Supreme Court where many key social issues will be decided ...

... Trump ... promised to repeal a ban to the 1950s-era legislation which prohibits tax-exempt organizations, like churches, from endorsing political candidates ...

... Gary Bauer .. of the conservative group American Values ... compared the November election to the choice that was faced by the people aboard the plane that crashed in a Pennsylvania field in 2001 ...

Oklahoma Senator James Lankford .. a Republican and former Baptist youth camp director. ... reminded ... Under former president .. Clinton .. "the most reliable liberals" were added to the Court ...

http://www.npr.org/2016/09/10/493399755/conservative-christians-slow-to-embrace-trump

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1. Abortion and Gay Marriage Absent from Trump’s Appeal to Evangelicals

By JONATHAN MARTIN and ALEXANDER BURNS
SEPT. 9, 2016

... “You didn’t vote four years ago,” Mr. Trump said in an address at a conference convened here by the Family Research Council, warning, “this is your last chance, this is it” ...

... Most candidates are by this point seeking to find and persuade undecided voters, not beseeching the most loyal party activists.

But Mr. Trump, a twice-divorced casino operator who has boasted of his sexual exploits, is no typical Republican nominee. And it is an open question whether he can count on the votes of the sort of social conservatives who at this time in the campaign are usually hard at work volunteering for the party’s standard-bearer.

So Mr. Trump .. momentarily stepped away from the swing states that will decide the presidential race and ventured into the basement ballroom of a Washington hotel to make his pitch. He lamented how difficult it is to raise Christian children today, quoted from Scripture and revealed a bit of news that illustrated how focused he is on turning out core Republican voters. He would, he announced to applause, travel to St. Louis on Saturday to attend the funeral of Phyllis Schlafly ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/10/us/politics/trump-pence-values-voter-summit.html

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3. So, which is voting for D Trump most like?

Gary Bauer .. of the conservative group American Values ... compared the November election to the choice that was faced by the people aboard the plane that crashed in a Pennsylvania field in 2001 ...


So, is voting for tRump more like crashing into a building? or crashing into the ground?