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Related: About this forumFaith and Freedom Coalition = Fraud?...
Evangelicals give Trump stamp of approvalhttp://www.thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/283071-evangelicals-give-trump-stamp-of-approval
Donald Trump was held up as the only choice for evangelical voters this November at a high-profile conference where faith leaders gave the presumptive Republican nominee their stamp of approval.
Trump received a nearly minute-long standing ovation at the Faith & Freedom Coalitions Road to Majority conference in Washington on Friday and was presented to the audience as the principled choice for Christian voters in the general election.
Sellouts. I guess faith really doesn't matter to them, secular convenience does.
No surprise to me.
I generally like the the analysis and summary here:
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
The Faith and Freedom Coalition gave its support to Donald Trump at its conference yesterday. He was presented to the delegates as a principled choice, despite his complete lack of support for virtually everything they believe in and his manifest lack of interest in any kind of religion. The chairman dismissed the fact that by any normal standards Trump is completely unacceptable to the group by pointing out that the only person in history who was perfect was Jesus Christ. To say that Trump is not perfect by evangelical standards is a bit of an understatement since he has been pro-choice most of his life, was and is pro-gay, and has no problem with transgender people using whatever bathroom they like. The Donald is hardly a model of Christian charity; there's nothing in the Bible about complementary rounds of golf. He also frequently swears in public, something evangelicals aren't supposed to like, and has committed adultery (and bragged about it), which evangelicals definitely don't like. Their endorsement of Trump basically tears away the facade that they are a religious group. They are simply a conservative political group that uses religion as a cover when it is convenient. In reality, Hillary Clinton is much more religious than Trump and frequently talks about her faith, but the evangelicals don't like her politics so her religion is irrelevant to them.
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Faith and Freedom Coalition = Fraud?... (Original Post)
NeoGreen
Jun 2016
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Duppers
(28,260 posts)1. Absolutely!! They're frauds in every sense.
Did they support the most openly religious president we've had in the last 50 yrs? Of course not.
Above all, they're RW authoritarians.
mountain grammy
(27,356 posts)2. The best hypocrisy money can buy..
If nothing else comes of this, I hope people leave the evangelicals in droves and bankrupt the damn fools. Oh, and Ralph Reed is perfect; a perfect asshole.
rurallib
(63,269 posts)3. the ends justify the means
these folks want power plain and simple
Freelancer
(2,107 posts)4. New Right Wing Slogan: Better a racist than a liberal! -nt