Remember the 2004 election? The second election that George Bush barely won by the skin of his teeth, mostly due to the hysteria generated by the anti-gay marriage fervor that swept the nation?
As it turns out, Republicans weren't really all that much against gay marriage. Ken Mehlman, Bush's campaign manager, was gay and came out in 2010. Dick Cheney, Bush's vice president, has a gay daughter, who married a woman in 2012. In 2016 Pope Francis said that Christians should apologize to gays for marginalizing them.
Gay marriage is now the law of the land, and while there are still some homophobic dead-enders, for the vast majority of Americans gay marriage is a non-issue.
Now Donald Trump is trying to pull the same gimmick again, but this time with transsexuals.
Trump is being investigated by the FBI for colluding with the Russians, and -- mostly likely -- for laundering the ill-gotten gains of Russian oligarchs through real estate transactions. He really wants to change the subject.
So today he announced via Twitter that he's going to ban transsexuals in the military, completely surprising the Pentagon. But just last year Trump said this:
"North Carolina, what they're going through with all of the business that's leaving and all of the strife, and that's on both sides — you leave it the way it is," Trump said. "People go, they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. There has been so little trouble."Several states are fighting over bathroom bills. But, just as with gay marriage, this issue will eventually fade away. Who cares which pot you piss in? If it's that big a deal, make all lavatories more private so no one has to endure the stares of others in their vulnerable moments.
And, just as Bush and Cheney weren't really against gay marriage, Trump doesn't give a damn whether you're transsexual. For him the only currency that matters is notoriety -- positive or negative. By that measure Caitlin Jenner and other high-profile transsexuals are killing it, as Trump loves to say.
The question isn't really about transsexuals in the military: it's about whether Christians will sell their souls by supporting the entire agenda of self-aggrandizing lying demons like Donald Trump who don't give a damn about Christianity, or Christians.
Look how Trump is treating Jeff Sessions, the lion of the Christian right. Trump is on Twitter trying to badger Sessions into resigning because he won't break the law to cover Trump's ass.
Christians should stop letting immoral scumbags like Trump play them for fools. As his "Two Corinthians" and "I never asked God for forgiveness" fiascoes showed, he knows nothing about Christianity and cares nothing about it. Look how he ridicules the eucharist as "his little cracker:"
"When I drink my little wine -- which is about the only wine I drink -- and have my little cracker, I guess that is a form of asking for forgiveness, and I do that as often as possible because I feel cleansed," he said. "I think in terms of 'let's go on and let's make it right.'"Trump's not the ally of evangelicals. As his disgusting speech in front of the Boy Scouts showed, he's leading this country into moral rot: he has normalized lying, cheating, bullying, fornication and sexual molestation.
By continuing to support Trump and his phony agenda evangelicals are tarnishing whatever moral high ground they ever had.
One of the main reasons so many millennials are abandoning religion and declaring themselves
"nones" is the sheer hypocrisy they see in Christians who preach chasteness, forgiveness and humility, yet support politicians like Trump and commentators like Rush Limbaugh.
These men are corrupt, arrogant, womanizing blowhards who with every breath and action betray the very essence of Christianity.
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