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rug

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Sun Oct 9, 2016, 05:22 PM Oct 2016

The 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 they’ll 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 movement’s contemporary iteration, told various outlets this weekend that they still back the GOP nominee, despite Friday’s 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 can’t “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 Trump’s critics last night:

Dr. James Dobson @DrJamesCDobson

Lord, You have spoken plainly about the consequences of withholding forgiveness. Help us to hear You and obey. Amen.

12:15 PM - 8 Oct 2016
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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 they’ve 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 he’d repeatedly called women “fat pig” and “dog”; that he’d been accused of sexual assault; that he’d speculated about Megyn Kelly’s menstrual cycle on live television; that he’d said disturbing things about his daughter’s sexuality. The religious right still endorsed him.

https://newrepublic.com/article/137599/religious-rights-devotion-donald-trump-will-end-movement-know
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The Religious Right’s Devotion to Donald Trump Will End the Movement As We Know It (Original Post) rug Oct 2016 OP
Religious Right=subjugation of women poli-junkie Oct 2016 #1
This casual piggery is so engrained and so casual I really think this is going to bust it wide open. rug Oct 2016 #2

poli-junkie

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1. Religious Right=subjugation of women
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 06:09 PM
Oct 2016

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.

 

rug

(82,333 posts)
2. This casual piggery is so engrained and so casual I really think this is going to bust it wide open.
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 06:16 PM
Oct 2016
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