Posted on 04/23/2016 10:27:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
Donald Trump has presented himself as a protector of conservative Christians and as the best friend Christians will ever have.
He has held up his mother’s Bible and pledged to bring Christ back into Christmas.
But when the rubber meets the road, he is anything but the defender of conservative Christians and their values.
This became crystal clear yesterday morning (April 21), when Trump, appearing on the Today show, answered questions on abortion, North Carolina’s Bathroom Privacy Act, and transgender rights.
When he was asked if he would like to change the Republican Party Platform on abortion, which allows no exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother, Trump replied without hesitation, “Yes, I would, absolutely, for the three exceptions. I would.”
In response, conservative leader Richard Viguerie told LifeSiteNews, “. . . he has zero chance of accomplishing that. The Republican Party is not going to change. We are a pro-life party, and the Republican Party is not going to change that.”
Certainly, the questions of rape, incest, or the life of the mother are terribly painful questions that deserve thoughtful and compassionate answers, especially from other women
But if you’re pro-life, you’re pro-life. As Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life for America asked, “Does he want to put an exception into the platform saying it's OK to murder a two-year-old child whose father is a rapist, too? Or is he only OK with it as long as the child hasn't been born yet?”
In the words of Rebecca Kiessling, herself conceived by a rape, “Donald Trump has the audacity to suggest that the Republican grassroots has been wrong to believe in protecting innocent children like me who were conceived in rape. My message to Donald Trump, and others like him is this: Punish rapists, not babies!”
So much for Donald Trump being a pro-life champion and defender of conservative Christian values.
But it gets worse.
He actually criticized North Carolina’s HB2, designed to protect the safety of women and children, stating, “North Carolina did something that was very strong, and they’re paying a big price. There’s a lot of problems.”
He indicated it was best to let people use the bathroom they felt comfortable with, showing no concern for all the people affected by that decision.
Yet across America, it is conservative Christians who have raised their voices the loudest in support of bills like HB2, standing up for the safety and privacy of women and children and not wanting heterosexual predators to use the loophole of “transgender rights” to prey on our wives, children, or grandchildren.
Senator Cruz had no trouble voicing his support for HB2, stating last week that these laws made perfect sense because “men should not be going to the bathroom with little girls.”
He said, “That is a perfectly reasonable determination for the people to make.”
But of course.
In stark contrast, Trump said that Bruce (Caitlyn) Jenner would be welcome to use the ladies’ room in one of his buildings.
I wonder how his wife and daughters would feel if they were in a bathroom and a burly, transgender “woman” came walking in?
Or what if they were coming out of the shower stalls at a gym, with their towels wrapped around them, only to find a biological male sitting there in his underwear?
Would he have no problem with this?
Perhaps Donald Trump is not only failing to protect the rights and liberties of babies in the womb and conservative Christians but also of women in general?
In response to Trump’s remarks, Ted Cruz issued this statement:
“Donald Trump is no different from politically correct leftist elites. Today, he joined them in calling for grown men to be allowed to use little girls’ public restrooms. As the dad of young daughters, I dread what this will mean for our daughters - and for our sisters and our wives. It is a reckless policy that will endanger our loved ones.
“Yet Donald stands up for this irresponsible policy while at the same time caving in on defending individual freedoms and religious liberty. He has succumbed to the Left's agenda, which is to force Americans to leave God out of public life while paying lip service to false tolerance.”
Whether you like Cruz or not (I have endorsed him, but we each have to make our own choices), if you’re a conservative Christian, you have to be more comfortable with his position on these issues than with the positions of Donald Trump.
And in light of the growing tide of an increasingly irrational transactivism, Cruz was right to ask, “Have we gone stark raving nuts?”
If you’re a Trump supporter, you might say, “I know he’s not a Christian and I don’t even think he’s a real conservative, but I’m voting for him because I believe he’s the best man to fix our economy and protect our borders.”
I beg to differ, but I can respect that position.
But please don’t look to him to be a defender of conservative Christian values or a protector of religious freedoms.
Barring dramatic divine intervention in his life, you will be sadly disappointed.
Be forewarned.
Townhall a div of the GOPe.
Unfortunately we do not have a king. Our vote is our word of agreement in support of another person’s word. Our non-vote is also an agreement to the winner. Eternally each word that we communicate (including being the watchmen on the wall Ezekial 33: 1-20) will either be burned up or will glorify God.
Also, why was it so important for Nehemiah to build the wall around Jerusalem? Why did David have to kill Goliath?
How is Pastor Cruz going to overturn all those Federal court orders?
Can you at least give us a hint to let us know at what point you might consider giving it up? It’s been non-stop for what, a year? I don’t know if you are a paid shiller like some of the others, but you are certainly relentless. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel, so we can know we don’t have to see the endless harangues forever?
What a great idea. I have a better one, why don’t you just vote for Hillary and despense with all this 3rd party nonsense.
Go read what Christ said would be to those that sit in the seat of Moses.... Christ said I have foretold you all things, before one jot or tittle of the so called NEW Testament ever got penned on plant fibers or animal skins... Any Christian worth his/her salt has been warned what would befall this world in the last days. We the American people have allowed the 'right to be made wrong' and the 'wrong to be called right. And in some cases claimed it was in Jesus name. And it started long before Trump was birthed upon God's green earth.
Cruz does not even keep his oath of office to protect and defend our Constitution and yet he claims he comes as the face of God. Cruz helped lord McCain end waterboarding of the barbaric ways and means of Obama's and Congress rebel armies.
It is the parents first and foremost responsibility to protect their own. IT has been those that sit in the seat of the law that has nearly ripped out by the roots our God given rights.
Any Christian worth his/her salt knows full well we have a 'KING'... AND if we actually took the time to read what His instruction book said and followed HIM, we would not have allowed this nation to be used and abused by those fake Christians. IT is a very liberal notion to point accusing fingers when the many really do not care. Their 'gods' are whatever they devote all their time and money toward. Check out Amos 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that *I* will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, BUT of hearing the words of the LORD:
This nation is filled with church houses that are fulfilling this prophecy...
Trump is like every Rino: campaign to the right in the primary, then it’s hard left.
“yet he claims he comes as the face of God”
Really?
Donald Trump is not your enemy. A message to Christians.
Thanks for clarifying. I knew it was just you talking out of your ass but also knew someone less familiar with you might take it the wrong way with the whole moving beyond zots and Old Testament dispatching language. Thanks again!
pedophiles molest children/young people in places like schools and libraries today. imagine how convenient it will be when they can do it in the privacy of the women’s rest or locker room and no ‘real’ men will disturb them.
The United States of America Does NOT have a KING. It is not and never was an established Christian nation through its constitution when it established freedom of all religions.
If God calls one whose name is written in the book of life to be a pacifist then that is their calling. If God calls one whose name is written in the book of life to be in the Marine Corps Infantry then that is their calling. There is a God inscribed timeline and those that lay down their lives for their friends are protecting others and delaying the rule of Satan until his appointed time.
That time is very near. During that time those sealed by God will have a choice. Death or captivity.
Rev 13
7 It was also given to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them, and authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation was given to him. 8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain. 9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear. 10 If anyone is destined for captivity, to captivity he goes; if anyone kills with the sword, with the sword he must be killed. Here is the perseverance and the faith of the saints.
Those who are killed during that time period are the first resurrection. “The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed.” Rev 20
Overcome!
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