Does he occasionally still use racial slurs when describing minorities? Sure.<\/p>\n
Is he penitent about his divorce from his wife? No clue!<\/p>\n
Does he still hand out Mein Kampf to people? Well, sometimes.<\/p>\n
But we all stumble, guys. No one is perfect.<\/p>\n
The important thing is that he is a baby Christian and we should show him grace. What\u2019s more, just because he has many private moral failures does not mean we cannot give our support to him this November. Indeed, he is, by all accounts, a wonderful family man with great children. Past indiscretions, such as completely horrifying things he might have said in the past 12 months, should not be held against him as he seeks elected office. God calls us to show grace to the penitent and that obviously means we should vote for the penitent when they are running for elected office.<\/p>\n
If people will mock me for my endorsement of Duke, I can only take comfort from the fact that self-righteous religious people once mocked Jesus for associating with tax collectors and sinners.
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\nJust last week I suggested in a church leadership meeting that we could increase attendance at our SBC church by opening canisters of mustard gas outside the local PCA church. My pastor told me that this would be a bad thing to do and I apologized\u2026 after I had already done it and a bunch of Presbyterians ended up in the hospital. But it\u2019s OK now. They all survived. Well, one of them is blind. But let\u2019s not count that one. It was an accident. I was trying to get people to come to my church. My intentions were noble. Really, I don\u2019t think I did anything wrong. But even if I did, it\u2019s done now. No need to keep talking about it.<\/p>\n
Remember, let him who is without sin cast the first stone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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