Posted on 03/05/2020 3:35:41 PM PST by Morgana
Longtime CNN analyst Roland Martin, a fervent supporter of the Obamas, showed up on MSNBC on Saturday morning touting a sweater he found in Ghana and trashing all white conservative evangelical Trump backers as "Christian frauds." MSNBC host Ali Velshi brought Roland on to discuss the South Carolina primary.
“You are a man of faith,” Velshi touted, “and one of the issues in the last several years has been Donald Trump has been viewed as an object of suspicion by some people of faith… How do Democrats who are trying to court particularly the black religious vote deal with this?” He trashed all Trump-backing white evangelicals as not just fake Christians, but as racists:
ROLAND MARTIN: Well, first and foremost, look, I'm a Christian author. My wife is [an] ordained minister. And the reality is this here -- white conservative evangelicals are Christian frauds. Let me say it again. They're frauds. If you look at the moral majority from Jerry Falwell and the Pat Robertsons of the world, all we heard from them since the late '70s and '80s, character, values, morals, and all those things. Yet, what they did is they embraced Donald Trump who is immoral, has no values, has no principles, and, frankly, is a fake Christian, okay.
So let's just cut to the chase here. And so black evangelicals see right through this, okay. We’ve always seen through this. Remember it was white conservative evangelicals who held up and supported Jim Crow and who would use the Bible to endorse slavery. What you have are individuals who only care about two things -- white conservative evangelicals care about two things. They can't stand gay people, and they can't stand abortion. And so all they care about are federal judges who are going to drive home their agenda, and that's why they suck up to trump. And that’s why he’s given them and the Federalist Society complete rein to pick federal judges.
A couple of thoughts:
Trump's personal life. Donald Trump was not the first choice of most evangelical Christians when the primaries began in 2016. But voting for a president isn't just voting for a leader, it's voting for an agenda. One party has an agenda that became obvious under Obama, to litigate the conservative Christians into a corner, like suing Catholic nuns to force them to provide contraceptives to employees. Liberals don't acknowledge this, merely suggesting that support for Trump is heresy.
Race. What Roland is suggesting here is that a white evangelical who supports Trump and was born in 1998 can be easily associated with the segregationists and the KKK. (?) As for older Christians, he's not leaving one inch of room for evangelical legends like Billy Graham, who was praised by Martin Luther King.
Abortion and Homosexuality. Opposing homosexuality as a sin isn't the same thing as "they can't stand gay people," but that's how liberals fight. Since Roland is protesting the bending of Bible passages, where is his scriptural support for the Democrats on abortion and LGBT "discrimination"?
He wasn't going to face two seconds of dissent on these matters on MSNBC.
So someone from CNN has another opinion...yawn.
So it’s outright racism and bigotry from the left then.
Roland LIES.
Because they're not chump enough to allow a Hillary or a Biden to do the selecting of fanatical "Bake The Cake" partisan Democrat federal judges who rule like little gods in their courtrooms.
Roland Martin can eat Mitt and die in a fire.
The guy from Laugh-In?
I’ll listen to a Roland Martin lecture about bass fishing, not fraudulent Christians.
"Look, Daddy! Teacher says that every time President Trump names another Federalist Society member to the federal bench, another vital cluster of basal ganglia explodes in Roland Martin's head!"
“”I’m a Christian author. My wife is [an] ordained minister.
Remember it was white conservative evangelicals who held up and supported Jim Crow and who would use the Bible to endorse slavery. What you have are individuals who only care about two things — white conservative evangelicals care about two things. They can’t stand gay people, and they can’t stand abortion. And so all they care about are federal judges who are going to drive home their agenda, and that’s why they suck up to trump. And that’s why he’s given them and the Federalist Society complete rein to pick federal judges.””
That is one hate filled man and so wrong about everything. Has he ever SEEN A BIBLE? But have to say he’s expert at “projection.”
Sorry - he doesn’t make the grade - not when he disparages another person’s faith and beliefs. He’s so far off base, he’s not even on the ballfield. Those statements of his are just plain wrong and sick.
I’ll bet that the number of white, conservative Christians this guy knows could be counted on one hand.
Fortunately, he’s not God, and his opinion is meaningless.
A non-Christian leftist gives his opinion on who is and isn’t a Christian. Par for the course.
Long-term racist CNN propagandist.
Nice to see Roland Martin “cooning” for his white liberal “massa” at CNN again.
Trump has turned out to be the most Judaeo/Christian supporter we have had in the White House in my life. He is pro-life, and not as an afterthought or a punch line.
He is pro-Israel and a friend to the working class. He is pro-minority.
He fights when it's necessary, and that is social, not in a military way. He IS pro-military. My son is "career Navy." I can't think of a CinC I would prefer. He is tied to Ronald Reagan in that respect.
He likes literate judges and justices.
His wife is pure class.
Here's something I now understand, in addition, and I think it should be part of his reelection campaign. Trump, WITHOUT APOLOGY, loves the United States. There isn't any equivocation about that.
I'm not going to vote for Trump because I fear his opposition. I'm voting for him because he REALLY earned it!
so don't take him seriously
Ah, I like that better and I like the bitter hatred coming fro their mouths more than the weasel words before.
It leaves NO DOUBT to those on the fence is to what they’re about
They think they’re the majority now.
Brothas and sistas and papis...you ain’t the majority yet
Don’t you love how atheists always explain what the Bible says and how Christians should live?
The bass that the other Roland Martin catches have more sense than this Roland Martin.
If you have to tell people you are a Christian, then you aren’t.
This is such a classic case of projection.
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