{"id":31363,"date":"2016-03-01T11:39:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T18:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=31363"},"modified":"2016-03-01T11:41:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T18:41:23","slug":"an-open-letter-to-super-tuesday-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/03\/an-open-letter-to-super-tuesday-voters.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;An Open Letter to Super Tuesday Voters&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31364\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31364\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/03\/320px-Official_Presidential_portrait_of_John_Adams_by_John_Trumbull_circa_1792.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31364\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31364\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/03\/320px-Official_Presidential_portrait_of_John_Adams_by_John_Trumbull_circa_1792.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. John Adams\" width=\"320\" height=\"400\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President John Adams<br>The official portrait by John Trumbull<br>(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201cOur Constitution was made for a moral and religious people,\u201d said John Adams, the first man to live in the White House as president. \u201cIt is wholly inadequate for the governance of any other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>David French, a Harvard-educated Evangelical lawyer and a veteran of the war in Iraq, cites Mr. Adams in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/432097\/donald-trump-super-tuesday-open-letter-voters\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cOpen Letter to Super Tuesday Voters.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I wish that what he says might have wide circulation and influence, but I confess that I\u2019m not hopeful. \u00a0Far too many voters seem willing to turn their country over to Caesarotrumpism.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31365\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31365\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/03\/320px-Abigail_Adams.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31365\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31365\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/03\/320px-Abigail_Adams.jpg\" alt=\"Mrs. Abigail Adams\" width=\"320\" height=\"416\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1765 portrait of the near-legendary Abigail Adams<br>(Wikimedia Commons)<br>No magazine photo spreads of her are known to exist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In other news, besides seeking to nominate an arrogant, authoritarian, unprincipled, unreflective, and crass vulgarian for the office once held by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Ronald Reagan, many voters \u2014 a large proportion of them Evangelicals \u2014 are, in effect, also voting to put the first woman in the White House as First Lady who\u2019s done <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3201088\/Melania-Trump-Lady-pose-NUDE-talk-incredible-sex-life-Donald-Howard-Stern-rival-Jackie-Kennedy-elegance-style-quiet-strength.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a nude photo spread for a men\u2019s magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How cool is <em>that?!?!?<\/em> \u00a0Not only that we\u2019ll have such a fine symbol of American women representing us \u2014 inspiring our daughters and granddaughters and serving as a model wife for our sons and grandsons \u2014 but that many Evangelicals have been able to discern\u00a0the difference between the unacceptably fake \u201cChristianity\u201d of Mitt and Ann Romney and the entirely acceptable devotion and conduct\u00a0of Donald and Melania Trump!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, Evangelicals who support Mr. Trump and his current wife will have forfeited the privilege of complaining about the coarsening of American manners and the decline in American morality. \u00a0Perhaps forever.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201c\u201cOur Constitution was made for a 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