Christian Journalist Pathetically Defends Evangelical Embrace of Donald Trump

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http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/02/25/christian-journalist-pathetically-defends-evangelical-embrace-of-donald-trump/

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Christian Journalist Pathetically Defends Evangelical Embrace of Donald Trump
February 25, 2018 by Hemant Mehta

We’ve seen a lot of articles written by Christians who are dismayed by how white evangelicals continue to support Donald Trump because he pays them lip service and has so far never strayed from their dream list of judicial nominees.

David Brody, however, didn’t write an article like that. The chief political correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network has a piece in today’s New York Times all about why Trump and evangelicals make a great match. Like a genuine match, not just a political partnership.

He completely ignores or dismisses most of Trump’s awful characteristics and actions over the past couple of years, and says Trump gets evangelical support because he’s a great guy in private.

For example, Mr. Trump took a car ride with Mike Pence along with Billy Graham’s son Franklin and Tony Perkins, a leading figure on the Christian right, during the Louisiana floods of 2016. Impressed by what Franklin Graham’s Christian ministry had done for flood victims, Mr. Trump told him that he was writing it a six-figure check, which Mr. Graham told him to send to Mr. Perkins’s church. Both men were moved by his impulsive kindness, and a bond was formed.

Two things about that story.

First, if Trump is showing compassion to white Christians, it’s something he hasn’t done to people who don’t fit that description. He’s told transgender soldiers they can’t serve in the military, he’s ripped apart immigrant families through Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), he’s put hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients in danger of being kicked out of the country, he’s made it harder for poor people to receive adequate health care, etc.

But he promised to give Tony Perkins some cash, so everything’s cool.