Didn't know about Trump's being in a porn

film. Not sure I'm any better off for knowing it now. Very arguably I may be even worse for the knowledge.

Nevertheless, the 2016 presidential race just rung an old bell. In the 1976 presidential race, Governor Jimmy Carter granted an interview to Playboy magazine. Several conservative Christian pastors attacked him for it:

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http://www.centerforbaptiststudies.org/bulletin/2008/april.htm

Excerpt:


...W. A. Criswell, influential pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas, endorsed Gerald Ford for president (a foreshadowing of Southern Baptist support for Republicans in subsequent elections). With Ford in attendance at worship, Criswell remarked before his sermon that Playboy magazine was “pornographic and salacious” and he praised Ford for turning down an interview with it. After the service Criswell, with Ford by his side, was approached by a reporter who asked if he was endorsing Ford for the presidency. Criswell smiled, hesitated for a moment, and then turned to Ford and said, “I am for you! I hope you win in November.”

Some Baptists immediately criticized Criswell for politicizing the pulpit. A group of sixteen North Carolina pastors issued a statement that said Criswell did not speak for Baptists in the pews.

( bold passage mine)

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It will be interesting to see how the same religious community responds to this year's Republican candidate's role in an adult film.

If films and magazines of this sort were "pornographic and salacious" in 1976 for Democrat Jimmy Carter, I'm sure they're "pornographic and salacious" in 2016 for Donald Trump.

Am I right, Tony Perkins?