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TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 03:11 AM Oct 2016

Top Evangelicals Stand By Trump Despite His Vulgar Comments About Sleeping With Married Woman

Source: Huffington Post

Some of the country’s most prominent religious conservatives are still supporting Donald Trump even after 2005 audio published by The Washington Post and NBC News revealed him making vulgar comments about women and extramarital sex.

The explicit tape, recorded during a conversation with then-”Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush, caught Trump making several misogynistic remarks, including a claim that he tried to have sex with a married woman. (Trump had married his third wife, Melania, just months before.) He also boasted he could grab any woman “by the pussy” due to his fame.

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“I’ve listened to the tape, my view is that people of faith are voting on issues like who will protect unborn life, defend religious freedom, create jobs, and oppose the Iran nuclear deal,” Ralph Reed, the chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition and a member of Trump’s religious advisory board, said in a statement. “I think a 10-year-old tape of a private conversation with a TV talk show host ranks pretty low on their hierarchy of concerns.”

Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, another Trump supporter, told BuzzFeed he isn’t concerned with sharing “values” with the GOP nominee.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/evangelicals-trump_us_57f83051e4b068ecb5de95fb

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Top Evangelicals Stand By Trump Despite His Vulgar Comments About Sleeping With Married Woman (Original Post) TomCADem Oct 2016 OP
They all seem to forget the 10 no no's Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery being one of them. appleannie1 Oct 2016 #1
I remember when these bags of venom shouted "Character counts!!" Grins Oct 2016 #18
Pussy-grabbers for trump - sign up here pkdu Oct 2016 #2
They're as disgusting as the sleazyness of trump. Cha Oct 2016 #3
there will be more videos, there will be more victims of tRump sexual assault... Raster Oct 2016 #4
Unbelievable. Wow. C Moon Oct 2016 #5
not sure why you'd find that unbelievable Skittles Oct 2016 #14
well yes winetourdriver Oct 2016 #24
+1 C Moon Oct 2016 #27
The main offense is not vulgar talk about sleeping around with married women exboyfil Oct 2016 #6
Melania was 3 months pregnant. Advanced enough for Donald J tRump to know. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2016 #12
grotesque.n/t MBS Oct 2016 #15
FUNDAMENTALISTS Doreen Oct 2016 #7
Dominionists. They want power more than anything truly christian. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2016 #13
I sincerely hope people don't see this as unusual or even noteworthy . . . Journeyman Oct 2016 #8
He never did get her into bed; that was his big complaint. Gosh, the guy took her furniture shopping Hekate Oct 2016 #9
I find it interesting that people think evangelical Christians would have a common creed. fleabiscuit Oct 2016 #10
Hypocrites join Evangelicals in supporting Donald Trump & the G.O.P. Achilleaze Oct 2016 #11
No one should be surprised. rustbeltvoice Oct 2016 #16
They'll hang in until the tapes with gay men are presented rurallib Oct 2016 #17
Imagine their exploding heads if Hillary was on tape talking about grabbing dicks? titaniumsalute Oct 2016 #19
Just the sort of people Jesus Christ warned us about 47of74 Oct 2016 #20
Doesn't surprise me at all. Third Doctor Oct 2016 #21
Hmmmmm Liberalagogo Oct 2016 #22
only getting their policies enacted matter DeminPennswoods Oct 2016 #23
These people aren't true Christians. roamer65 Oct 2016 #25
Evangelicals Promote Misogyny dlk Oct 2016 #26
I hope this helps sway some indoctrinated kids of fundies LiberalLovinLug Oct 2016 #28
Remember what Jesus said about the " hypocrites " in the Bible . You can not be a right wing geretogo Oct 2016 #29

Grins

(7,217 posts)
18. I remember when these bags of venom shouted "Character counts!!"
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 09:27 AM
Oct 2016

No more, I guess. Evangelicals back Trump even though he lusted after his own daughter? Go figure.

A quote I found:

Evangelicalism in contemporary America has always, and only, been a political movement; identity politics that ties together Jesus, America - and whiteness, and maybe not in that order. Theologically it is vacuous. They created the "anti-Christ" lie in an attempt to develop an American theology that turns white America into the "chosen" nation. There’s nothing inconsistent about evangelicals buying into Trump, because evangelicalism is nothing but posturing and nihilism.

exboyfil

(17,863 posts)
6. The main offense is not vulgar talk about sleeping around with married women
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 03:22 AM
Oct 2016

Trump admits that he engages in sexual battery as a method of "seduction". That is a crime that many women have accused him of. Now they have demonstrated proof that he has an attitude that such behavior is acceptable, and a confession that he has conducted that behavior himself.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,002 posts)
12. Melania was 3 months pregnant. Advanced enough for Donald J tRump to know.
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 05:38 AM
Oct 2016

The video seems to have been shot around Sept. 16, 2005.

Barron was born March 20, 2006.

It is 185 days from the start date to the end date, or 6 months, 4 days excluding the end date.

Donald J tRump talked like that while he knew his wife was three months pregnant.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
7. FUNDAMENTALISTS
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 03:25 AM
Oct 2016

have low opinions of women so why does it surprise anyone that they still support Trump?

Journeyman

(15,035 posts)
8. I sincerely hope people don't see this as unusual or even noteworthy . . .
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 03:27 AM
Oct 2016

given the long and sordid history these "religious leaders" have exhibited as a group over the last several hundred years. Jim Bakker raped one of his associates; Jimmy Swaggart carried on lengthy affairs with hookers using church money; Ted Haggard did the same with male prostitutes; Earl Paulk took advantage of numerous females in his congregation, stood accused of child molestation, and had a child with his sister-in-law;Tony Alamo is in prison for raping minor girls and for violations of the Mann Act; Joe Barron tried to rape a 13 year-old girl -- and those are just in the last couple decades.

Treat these people with the contempt they so justly deserve. Force them to PROVE they deserve any respect or consideration. But by no means be surprised because they line up behind a sleaze bag who admits to forcing himself on multiple women, especially one who acted this way based on his assessment of his own personal position.

Hekate

(90,708 posts)
9. He never did get her into bed; that was his big complaint. Gosh, the guy took her furniture shopping
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 03:40 AM
Oct 2016

...and gods know what else, and she still held out on him. Who could imagine that? The very idea that any woman, even a married one, would be able to resist his advances is just inconceivable to Trump.

I can just imagine the boorish "courtship", something along the lines of, "Hey, ya gotta nice rack, wanna screw?"

Uck.

fleabiscuit

(4,542 posts)
10. I find it interesting that people think evangelical Christians would have a common creed.
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 04:14 AM
Oct 2016

They are evangelicals precisely because they want to make their own rules. Not my rules, not your rules, not the Popes rules. Hell they are reluctant to even say that the Pope is a Christian, or that President Obama is. Do not look for them to abandon the biggest rule bender nutbag trump. We just need to keep taking off slices. I still believe there are more sane voters than not.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
11. Hypocrites join Evangelicals in supporting Donald Trump & the G.O.P.
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 04:26 AM
Oct 2016

Oh, wait, my bad. They are the same frikken people.

rurallib

(62,416 posts)
17. They'll hang in until the tapes with gay men are presented
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 07:52 AM
Oct 2016

then a few more will let go.

Man, they are so close to grabbing a big hunk of power which is what they want so bad.

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
20. Just the sort of people Jesus Christ warned us about
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 10:30 AM
Oct 2016

As evidenced by the very book they love to thump so much...

"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? So, every sound tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears evil fruit. A sound tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will know them by their fruits.

"Not every one who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you evildoers.’" (Matt 7:15-23)

Third Doctor

(1,574 posts)
21. Doesn't surprise me at all.
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 10:38 AM
Oct 2016

If Obama or any other Democrat had behaved this way they would judge him and withdraw support. The naked hypocrisy is mind blowing.

 

Liberalagogo

(1,770 posts)
22. Hmmmmm
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 10:39 AM
Oct 2016
Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, another Trump supporter, told BuzzFeed he isn’t concerned with sharing “values” with the GOP nominee.


Yet if it had been a Democrat, Tony would be screaming for Jebus to strike him dead.

DeminPennswoods

(15,286 posts)
23. only getting their policies enacted matter
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 10:45 AM
Oct 2016

The only thing these folks care about is electing someone who won't stand in the way of them getting their reactionary religious agenda enacted. If that someone is Donald Trump at the moment, they're all in.

dlk

(11,566 posts)
26. Evangelicals Promote Misogyny
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:07 PM
Oct 2016

The evangelicals' continued support of Trump only underscores their deep and wide misogyny. They would support a sexual predator for president over a highly qualified woman. This, in and of itself, speaks volumes as to their true morals.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,174 posts)
28. I hope this helps sway some indoctrinated kids of fundies
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 02:25 PM
Oct 2016

to start to question their religion. As I did many years ago.

That's a silver lining maybe. How religion, any religion, can twist, omit, add, any interpretation of their holy book they want to until they are convinced that the opposite of what was written is the true meaning. example: Thou shalt not kill...does not mean convicts, only unborn fetuses.

The older more ensconced into the 'faith' one is the more stubborn one is to admit that you've been wasting so many years of your life, but young people can see through it and jump ship much more naturally.

geretogo

(1,281 posts)
29. Remember what Jesus said about the " hypocrites " in the Bible . You can not be a right wing
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 05:49 PM
Oct 2016

conservative supporting a crook and deceiver like Trump and call yourself a Christian .

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