Tony Perkins: Evangelicals Have No Intention Of Confronting Trump Over Stormy Daniels

[Initech]

NPR reported today that evangelical leaders are seeking to organize a meeting with President Trump this summer at which they intend to confront the president about his alleged affair with, and payoff of, pornographic actress Stormy Daniels. To those who have been following the Religious Right’s support for the president, this story seemed highly suspect because the movement has displayed nothing but blind loyalty in return for Trump’s willingness to enact their political agenda.

This afternoon, the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, who has played a central role in maintaining the Trump/Religious Right partnership, appeared on Todd Starnes’ radio program, where he announced that evangelicals have no intention whatsoever of confronting Trump about his personal immorality.

Perkins is among those who are in the process of planning the upcoming meeting, which he explained is intended to be nothing more than a follow-up to the meeting that Trump held with hundreds of evangelical activists prior to the 2016 election. Perkins said that there is a risk that evangelical voters may not be motivated to vote in the midterm elections and so this meeting is designed primarily as a means of highlighting the fact that Trump has largely kept his promises to enact their agenda.

“The president is actually keeping his promises that he made two years ago,” Perkins said, “and so his agenda is actually in jeopardy—which is an agenda that we agree with—is in jeopardy because so many evangelicals and conservatives are frustrated with Congress and they are likely not to show up and vote in the fall … We need to communicate to evangelical leaders the importance of conservatives, evangelicals, Christians being involved in the process.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/tony-perkins-evangelicals-have-no-intention-of-confronting-trump-over-stormy-daniels/

Yet they had every intention of going after Clinton over Monica Lewinsky. The hypocrisy is really showing with the evangelical crowd. They only like Trump because he speaks their language. Fucking assholes.

[Turbineguy]

1. Confronting?

More like "Can I have her number? Does she have a friend?"

[dalton99a]

2. Evilgelicals will genuflect before their idol.

[Initech]

4. I think Trump is the very definition of the "false idols" Jesus warned us about.

They really need to read that book at some point.

[dalton99a]

6. An oldie from 2016:

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2016/jul/22/republicans-know-theyre-bowing-to-a-false-idol-in/
Republicans know they’re bowing to a false idol in Trump
By Eugene Robinson
Friday, July 22, 2016 | 2 a.m.

Anyone wondering just how bad a Trump presidency would be got a preview from the joint interview he did with his vice-presidential pick, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, on “60 Minutes.” It was unintentionally hilarious — but also chilling.

It appeared that the candidates had spent all of five minutes preparing for the encounter; they fumbled when correspondent Lesley Stahl asked obvious questions they should have known were coming. If Clinton’s vote for the Iraq War showed bad judgment, as Trump claims, what about the fact that Pence voted the same way? “I don’t care,” Trump declared. When pressed, Trump said that Pence was “entitled to make a mistake every once in a while” but Clinton was not.

Asked whether Trump “went too far” when he criticized Sen. John McCain as “not a war hero” because he was shot down over Vietnam, poor Pence hemmed and hawed until Trump gave him permission to speak freely. “That one, you could say yes,” Trump told his running mate. “I mean, you’re not — it’s fine. Hey, look, I like John McCain. But we have to take care of our vets.”

When Trump came out with his proposed Muslim ban, Pence called it unconstitutional. Now he loyally says he supports Trump’s idea, which seems to have morphed into something Trump calls “extreme vetting” and applies only to Muslims from “territories and terror states and terror nations.” When Trump went on about how he would declare war against the Islamic State but without dispatching U.S. troops, Pence said that “this is the kind of leadership that America needs.”

[notdarkyet]

13. Hes the Antichrist.

[Initech]

15. Well hey Jesus did warn us that the dark one will pose as a creature of light.

[Achilleaze]

3. d'oh

Like anyone was expecting even a molecule of integrity from the republican "religious" right. They've disgraced themselves enough to be sadly predictable.

[ck4829]

5. Same Tony Perkins who...

Said Obama was a secret Muslim and that it was a bad thing.
Joined in the holy war against transgender people using restrooms.
Has fought gay rights at every turn.
Was against the HPV vaccine.

The fact he is some moral arbiter is Kafkaesque to say the least.

[DFW]

7. Tony Perkins and the evangelicals

They would give Trump a free pass for holding a Roman orgy where their teenage daughters were deflowered against their will, but would announce their Lord's clear eternal damnation of Barack Obama if he so much as shook the hand of a female high school student at graduation.

[Dream Girl]

8. Hypro-gelicals, pseudo-Chistians, CINOS (Christians in name only)

Something like that. Help me out here. Let’s come up with a label that calls out their blatant hypocrisy

[PJMcK]

11. How about "assholes?" (n/t)

[Dream Girl]

16. That works, let's just go with that!

[Blue_true]

9. Rightwing evangelicals are evil, full stop. There are no values among them. nt

[rockfordfile]

10. That sounds like those evangelicals have no credibility

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. Yeah, we would hate for you to break that cycle of hypocrisy Tony.

Keep on frogmarching.

[BoneyardDem]

14. Evangelical MO has always been to ensure plausable deniability at the gates of heaven

...by never actually wanting to hear facts or truths.

It's so much more important to the fleecing of the flock to employ faith based rational, employing willful ignorance and manufacturing divine, God invoked excuses. Thanks Tony Perkins for that confirmation.

[Freethinker65]

17. To remain relevant, Tony Perkins would offer up virgins to Trump

[Leith]

18. Good! I Prefer It That Way

They have set themselves up to be eternal fools. They sold what's left of their souls for the most immoral candidate who ever ran for the office. They excused his inexcusable acts. The shouted praise for every one of his evils.

The next time somebody asks me if I've been saved, what church I go to, or if I've heard "The Word," I will simply ask if they support that abomination. If they say they do, I will tell them that they forfeited any semblance to moral superiority they tried to accrue. Even if they themselves don't see it, everyone else does.