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According to polls 73 percent<\/a> of WHITE evangelicals will be voting for Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n

If the polls are correct here\u2019s the question I\u2019d like to ask evangelicals using their own style <\/em>of language\/concerns\/theological thinking as applied to their choice:<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the explanation for<\/em> <\/strong>the fact that WHITE American evangelicals made the allegedly\u00a0philandering lying<\/a> ignorant braggart lapsed Roman Catholic Dinesh D\u2019Souza<\/a> their anti-Obama hero, embrace a pro-choice Mormon bishop who promoted abortion and\u00a0Planned\u00a0Parenthood\u00a0in MA, are working to elect a job-destroying tax-avoiding<\/a> lying flip-flopping-tell-anyone-anything-they-want-to-hear Swiss bank account collecting draft dodger<\/a>\u00a0running with a\u00a0disciple\u00a0of the God-hating, Jesus-mocking hater-of-the-poor Ayn Rand, for their presidential candidate and look the other way as a crazed ultra-Zionist<\/a>\u00a0many Israeli Jews fear\u00a0 billionaire casino owner<\/a> who is being investigated for allegedly making billions off the dirtiest Chinese gambling Communist Party-controlled<\/a>\u00a0outfit in the world funds the enterprise, at the very same time as Franklin Graham sold his ailing \u00a0father Billy\u2019s soul and denied core evangelical theology by taking Mormonism<\/a> off the Billy Graham organization\u2019s list of cults<\/a> in order to help the Mormon pagan-ritual-performing, Trinity-denying<\/a>, casino-money-grubbing billionaire-coddling, earth-destroying global-warming denying Mormon bishop win respectability for his dead-Jews-baptizing<\/a>-polygamy-rooted-reality-denying-interplanetary\u00a0 Masonic lodge-embracing faith<\/a> in an election against an exemplary modest faithful husband good father compassionate smart BLACK evangelical Christian President who\u2019s major accomplishments include saving the economy, ending a war, killing our greatest enemy, giving health care to children and the poor and the \u201cleast of these\u201d and who has tried to reduce the number of abortions by helping women escape poverty<\/a> in a reenactment of the lesson of the parable of the Good Samaritan?<\/p>\n

Go figure.<\/p>\n

Your thoughts please in the comment section\u2026<\/p>\n

Frank Schaeffer<\/strong><\/a> is a writer and author of many books including Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back\u00a0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"