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I know! Join publicly in a good solid cheer for how right the Dear Leader is to double and triple down on the mature and edifying spectacle of calling a woman \u201cMiss Piggy\u201d and obsessing over that as the primary takeaway from the debate!<\/a> That\u2019ll send the message to pregnant women how much you care about life and the gospel and vulnerable women and human dignity. Wag that double chin about how a broad needs to look good to satisfy a man. Could there possibly *be* anything more prolife than a portly thrice-married man coming to the aid of a strip club owner as he fat-shames an uppity dame?<\/p>\n

This is the face of \u201cprolife\u201d Trump conservative Christianity. You dance to his tune, not he to yours, O Prolife Christian. He feels a need to obsess over justifying his misogyny? Then that is your core value and non-negotiable today and yesterday, and the day before that, not the unborn. And you will be remembered, not for your heroism in saving babies, but for your craven sycophancy to this wretched, thin-skinned, misogynist bully.<\/p>\n

And sooner or later, women and the rising generation who watch you bow and scrape to this, your *real* core value and non-negotiable, will simply abandon you as your fading voice tries to get people to care about the unborn anymore. Because by your fruits, they will know you didn\u2019t really care about the unborn. So why should they?<\/p>\n

Or you could decouple from this hideous misogynist, apologize for joining in this filth, and actually *act* like you believe what you say about putting the unborn and the dignity of human life\u2013including fat human life\u2013first.<\/p>\n

And before you say, \u201cStop using a broad brush! Not all prolife Christians are like Newt Gingrich!\u201d tell me: where is one single peep of protest from the Trump base? Who in the prolife community has said a word against this bullying idiocy? When do Frs. Pavone or West or Franklin Graham or Jerry Falwell, Jr. or *anybody* in the prolife world shout, \u201cEnough!\u201d and demand a halt to this grotesque spectacle? Silence implies consent. And Gingrich joining in without a word of challenge only confirms that this kind of neanderthal bullying is a feature, not a bug, for Trump supporters.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"