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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,035 posts) Thu Jan 25, 2018, 10:53 PM Jan 2018

CNN anchor to Falwell Jr: How many times does it take before you stop forgiving Trump?

CNN anchor Erin Burnett confronted evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. on his defense of President Trump after reports surfaced that Trump's lawyer paid an adult film star to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter she had with Trump in 2006.

"Everyone keeps saying forgive, and my question to you is, how many times? I mean if you stand for the issue of familial fidelity and integrity, how many times does it take before you say this is a person who lacks character?" Erin Burnett asked Falwell Jr. on CNN on Wednesday.

Falwell Jr. responded by saying Trump has changed since the alleged affair took place and that all sinners are equal in God's eyes.
"He's not the same person now that he was back then. I believe he's changed. And Jesus said that if you lust after a woman in your heart it's the same as committing adultery," he said.

"You're just as bad as the person who has [cheated], and that's why our whole faith is based around the idea that we're all equally bad, that we're all sinners, that we all need Christ's forgiveness and that's why evangelicals are so quick to forgive Donald Trump when he asks for forgiveness for things that happened 10, 15 years ago," he continued.

The Liberty Univerity president is the latest prominent evangelical to defend Trump in the wake of the reported affair.

Franklin Graham, the son of famed televangelist Billy Graham, also said Trump had changed as a person since the alleged affair, while Family Research Council president Tony Perkins said the president deserved a second chance.

Critics have called the community's defense of Trump hypocritical, given their conservative stances on familial values.

Falwell Jr. offered a similar defense for Trump in 2016 following the release of a behind-the-scenes "Access Hollywood" tape, on which Trump is heard on a hot mic making lewd comments about groping women by the genitals. He called the comments "reprehensible" but said "we’re all sinners" and emphasized that Trump apologized.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/370730-cnn-anchor-to-falwell-jr-how-many-times-does-it-take-before-you

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CNN anchor to Falwell Jr: How many times does it take before you stop forgiving Trump? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2018 OP

. eleny Jan 2018 #1

Yeah and theyre all equally quick to forgive democrats unblock Jan 2018 #2

They don't care. Initech Jan 2018 #3

that's why evangelicals are so quick to forgive Donald Trump when he asks for forgiveness" flotsam Jan 2018 #4

Just like Trump's diet - garbage in, garbage out. Initech Jan 2018 #7

Yet the fundie undie's are still in a bunch C_U_L8R Jan 2018 #5

Evangelicals and Jihadists are the opposite sides of the same coin. Dawson Leery Jan 2018 #6

The affair might have been 10 years ago... dawg day Jan 2018 #8

Adultery is Ok, and forgiven, but ... left-of-center2012 Jan 2018 #9

And adultery is one of the Big Ten. Mariana Jan 2018 #12

The road apple didn't fall far from the horse's ass. Crunchy Frog Jan 2018 #10

We are all equally bad?? Bullshit! LiberalFighter Jan 2018 #11

Too bad they could never forgive Obama for being born in Kenya world wide wally Jan 2018 #13

eleny

(46,166 posts)

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Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 10:54 PM

Jan 2018

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unblock

(52,253 posts)

2. Yeah and theyre all equally quick to forgive democrats

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 10:58 PM

Jan 2018

Oh and I’m sure they also forgive murderers and other criminals, because we’re all equally bad, right?

Why not make a career criminal president? Oh wait, ... we did....

Initech

(100,081 posts)

3. They don't care.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 11:00 PM

Jan 2018

Family values? Sanctity of marriage? Ethics? Sanity? These things don't matter if you're a white Christian male republican.

flotsam

(3,268 posts)

4. that's why evangelicals are so quick to forgive Donald Trump when he asks for forgiveness"

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 11:01 PM

Jan 2018

Ask the asswipe to produce proof the other asswipe asked for forgiveness-because I've never even seen him admit he was wrong about ANYTHING.

Initech

(100,081 posts)

7. Just like Trump's diet - garbage in, garbage out.

Reply to flotsam (Reply #4)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 11:07 PM

Jan 2018

It's a perpetual shit cycle!

C_U_L8R

(45,003 posts)

5. Yet the fundie undie's are still in a bunch

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 11:03 PM

Jan 2018

over Teddy Kennedy. What hypocrits. What phonies.

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)

6. Evangelicals and Jihadists are the opposite sides of the same coin.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 11:04 PM

Jan 2018

Pure filth hell-bent on power.

dawg day

(7,947 posts)

8. The affair might have been 10 years ago...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 11:26 PM

Jan 2018

The payoff, however, was during the election.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)

9. Adultery is Ok, and forgiven, but ...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 11:46 PM

Jan 2018

... you'll burn in Hell if you're gay.

Well, that's what my evangelical sibling (who cheated on his first wife) believes.

Mariana

(14,858 posts)

12. And adultery is one of the Big Ten.

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Reply #9)

Fri Jan 26, 2018, 12:49 AM

Jan 2018

Furthermore, Jesus clearly said that most divorced people who remarry are adulterers, so they can't even fall back on the lame-ass excuse "But that's in the Old Testament, and we have a new covenant now!"

Homosexuality is supposedly an especially awful sin because the KJV uses the word "abomination". I'd be a lot more impressed with that argument if any of these assholes ever spent any time demanding that all seafood restaurants be shut down. Eating most of the stuff on the menus in them is an "abomination". The Bible is pretty adamant about the seafood thing, too, saying "abomination" over and over:

Leviticus 11 : 10-12 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.

No catfish. No eels. No clams, quahogs, oysters, mussels, or scallops. No snails. No shrimp. No lobsters or crabs. No squid or octopus. None of that. Do these jackasses care about all this abomination going on everywhere? Hell no. They deserve nothing but ridicule.