We are now in a contest between a party that wants a sex predator for President and a party that wants a sex predator for First Gentleman.<\/p>\n
But only one party announces itself as the Party of God and Family Values.<\/p>\n
Trump has achieved something Hillary could never have done in a million years: getting \u201cfaithful prolife family values conservative Christians\u201d to lay down the last shreds of their integrity to threaten hellfire against anybody who will not support a proabort, adulterous, draft-dodging sex predator as the New Constantine while still announcing themselves as, in the approving words of Fr. Richard Heilman, the \u201cbest Christians\u201d. And when it\u2019s all done, Trump will lose and they will have nothing but shame and ignominy for tattooing this con man\u2019s name all over their faces.<\/p>\n
To get a man\u2019s soul and give him *nothing* in return\u2013that is what really gladdens the heart of Our Father Below. \u2013 Uncle Screwtape<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
he has snuffed out the Religious Right. \u2013 Russell Moore We are now in a contest between a party that wants a sex predator for President and a party that wants a sex predator for First Gentleman. But only one party announces itself as the Party of God and Family Values. Trump has achieved something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[775],"class_list":["post-97596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-never-trump"],"yoast_head":"\n
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