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Related: About this forumThe Religious Right’s Devotion to Donald Trump Will End the Movement As We Know It
BY SARAH JONES
October 9, 2016
The list of Republican senators, governors, and congressmen and women who have announced theyll no longer vote for Donald Trump has grown to 46 as of Sunday morning. Yet the religious right hangs on. Conservative evangelicals, who form the core of the movements contemporary iteration, told various outlets this weekend that they still back the GOP nominee, despite Fridays publication of a video in which Trump justifies sexual assault.
Tony Perkins, who heads the Family Research Council, told The Washington Post that he still backs Trump because he cant allow the country and culture to deteriorate any further. Another prominent evangelical, Gary Bauer, told Reuters that the alternative is worse: Hillary Clinton, he argued, will erode religious liberty and promote abortion, among other sins. Rev. Robert Jeffress, an early Trump supporter, also said in a statement that Trump is still the best candidate to reverse the downward spiral this nation is in.
James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, even subtweeted Trumps critics last night:
Lord, You have spoken plainly about the consequences of withholding forgiveness. Help us to hear You and obey. Amen.
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And Sean Hannity, a Catholic who shares much in common with his evangelical brethren, compared Trump to King David on his Friday night show. But Donald Trump is not the King David Christians are looking for, and crowning him will cost them the political and cultural influence theyve fought so hard to gain.
Rewind to Friday morning: We already knew that Trump was a racist. We also knew that he was a misogynist. We knew that he had humiliated Miss Universe Alicia Machado for her ethnicity and weight, and allegedly sexually harassed women on the set of The Apprentice. We knew that hed repeatedly called women fat pig and dog; that hed been accused of sexual assault; that hed speculated about Megyn Kellys menstrual cycle on live television; that hed said disturbing things about his daughters sexuality. The religious right still endorsed him.
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(992 posts)Religious Right AND the Republication party don't give a shit about women, never have, never will. This latest Trump reveal has simply exposed who Trump is and, by extension, who the Repubs and their "Christian" followers are. These men don't want women to have equal pay for equal work; they don't want women to have access to birth control; they don't want women on an equal footing with men. The pricks even voted against the Violence Against Women act. The feigned outrage from some of these Repukes now is because they can't hide their real disdain for women anymore. Religious Righties and Repukes want power to remain with rich white men and will stop at nothing to get what they want. It's ALL about power for these pricks.