How the religious right embraced Trump and lost its moral authority

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How the religious right embraced Trump and lost its moral authority
By Jeff Jacoby GLOBE COLUMNIST OCTOBER 14, 2016

IT WILL TAKE a long time to assess the full extent of the damage wrought by Donald Trump on the Republican Party and American conservatism. But this much is already clear: Buried under the post-election wreckage will be the moral credibility of the religious right.

Hypocrisy and politics have gone hand in hand since time immemorial. But the embrace of Trump by influential religious conservatives — who have always insisted that they, like Hebrew National, answer to a higher authority — is orders of magnitude worse than the customary flip-flopping and sail-trimming of a presidential campaign.

For decades, Christian (and some Jewish) conservative spokesmen portrayed their involvement in partisan battles as an aspect of their faith’s witness. Judeo-Christian ethics and the inculcation of moral standards in public life were not just talking points to the organized religious right; they were the reason the movement existed in the first place. Jerry Falwell, who launched the Moral Majority in 1979, explained that its purpose was “to turn back the flood tide of moral permissiveness, family breakdown, and general capitulation to evil” that he feared was inundating American life.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2016/10/14/how-religious-right-embraced-donald-trump-and-lost-its-moral-authority/zmnffYc0elZ5cdGHbLrBVL/story.html

[hatrack]

1. As if they had moral authority to begin with . . .

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[sarae]

4. So true...

but they could more easily convince people before. Now, they have no 'logic' to stand behind.

[TrogL]

5. They don't do logic, or facts for that matter

[BSdetect]

7. Exactly, raised catholic and never assigned any authority to that cult

Figured out their BS aged 6.

[Emilybemily]

9. Exactly

Remember this oldie? "The moral majority is neither."

[sarae]

2. The religious right have no "higher" moral ground to stand on at ALL, anymore.

I don't want to hear any judgments coming from these hypocrites.

[saltpoint]

3. Good piece and right on the money. eom

[DetlefK]

6. Step 3 in the decay of the Republican Party.

Step 1 was when GWB left the US a recession. That destroyed the GOP's reputation as the party of economy.

Step 2 was when Obama had to finish their job and get Osama Bin Laden. That destroyed the GOP's reputation of being the party of national security.

Step 3 is that Trump's nomination shows that the GOP is not a party of family-values or of christian ideals.



You know why GWB won in 2000?
Karl Rove's genius.
And you know what Rove did?
He united the capitalist voters, the social conservative voters and the national security-voters.
Those were the 3 pillars of the GOP. And they have destroyed all of them.

[rurallib]

8. They have exposed their own lust for power within an administration

that they could have considerable influence in.

So there they are lusting after earthly power and the attendant money that accompanies it in a show of why they are simply morally corrupt.