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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt really boggles my mind the way the "religious right" ignores Melania's nude photos.
If a Democratic President's wife had that in her past, they would NEVER shut up about it.
They'd call her the Whore of Babylon.
Fullduplexxx
(7,864 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,209 posts)trueblue2007
(17,228 posts)She should be soooooooooooo proud of herself.
Nasty woman .......
https://www.google.com/search?q=naked+melania&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwits573p_viAhWqrlQKHSb5CyIQ_AUIECgB&biw=1264&bih=732#imgrc=e6Ag1gE8X64E5M:
Skittles
(153,169 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,015 posts)dalton99a
(81,516 posts)Melania Trump like youve never seen her before
By Isabel Vincent
July 30, 2016 | 8:26pm
Ligyron
(7,633 posts)Now, the rest of the breasts you can show all you want.
Never could figure that one out...
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)"Always leave them asking for more."
It's the forbidden fruit strategy, the endless tease.
kskiska
(27,045 posts)He's pals with the publisher and is proud to "show off" what he owns.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)But why is she wearing high heals in that spread? That's the weirdest thing.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Thank goodness they are wearing black tape!
tblue37
(65,408 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)sleeveless dresses where just HORRIBLE. And Pres O's tan suit toooooo.
sad.
luvallpeeps
(935 posts)Response to Iliyah (Reply #3)
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Funtatlaguy
(10,879 posts)They were apoplectic over Teresa Heinz.
But, Melanomas doesnt bother them at all. Be best.
NBachers
(17,122 posts)Women from France are seen as more educated; more socially and economically self-sufficient. They can't be as easily manipulated and taken advantage of. Weak men fear strong, confident women.
kskiska
(27,045 posts)Now they boast that Melanoma speaks FIVE!!! No, SIX!!! languages that we've never heard her speak. She did speak French to some schoolchildren once, using words so elementary I could have managed it myself.
Funtatlaguy
(10,879 posts)different positions.
Be Best!
Johnny2X2X
(19,066 posts)Or how about Barracks tan suit.
Melania didnt just do artsy nudes, she did full frontal pornographic nudes while simulating sex acts with another fully nude woman. Zero wrong with that, but she basically did lesbian porn and cane to this country illegally. And the Religious Right says nothing. Its a joke.
luvallpeeps
(935 posts)Trumps get mulligans. Ask Franklin Graham. He has coffers full of 'em. When you're white (or orange), that's how ya get it. I can think of quite a few eyebrow raising incidents that would have the right's hair afire.
walkingman
(7,628 posts)Much of the evangelical doctrine has been based on racism and misogyny. They unite in their ignorance with like minded people and are more than glad to "pass the plate" in order to sustain their centuries old doctrine. I grew up in a Baptist household that was mesmerized with racism and a ideology of "we are better than you" mentality. Thank goodness my family became more interested in golf on Sundays after a while and the indoctrination didn't stick. However, the "country club" was filled with these same people so I know all about hypocrisy.
sop
(10,193 posts)HAB911
(8,904 posts)they will simply do whatever is needed to win, they have no standards
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,847 posts)moose65
(3,167 posts)Did she make Trump mad or something? At first, I thought shed be ubiquitous, hanging around at all his events and generally haunting us for 4 years. But she has essentially disappeared. Maybe its because theyre cut from the same cloth, and attention whores generally dont get along. Did Trump see Palin as a threat? Someone who might steal the limelight?
Celerity
(43,416 posts)?w=768
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Clearly they have a pretty twisted view on women
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)They are simply a partisan tribe.
Initech
(100,081 posts)And that thought alone is disturbing enough!
onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)Cartoonist
(7,317 posts)They're born again. Jesus has forgiven them for their sins. They are now pure and chaste, here to do God's work.
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)and constant forgiveness
It's all good
NCjack
(10,279 posts)even if #45 is an unrepentant whoremonger. God has assured them that he just didn't have time to find a more worthy Xian to be president.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)...betting on a lot of ogling goes on. RRs, IMO, are such sick fucks.
The whole deal is the RR's totally sick desire to not allow women to have control over their own bodies, gawd forbid a woman would have some independence from the RR males.
RockRaven
(14,974 posts)Trump impregnated Marla whilst married to Ivana, tried to force Marla to abort Tiffany (and failed obviously), divorced Ivana (during which proceeding she accused him of beating and raping her), then Tiffany was born out of wedlock (though he did eventually get around to marrying Marla). Those are all -- by the religious right's own standards -- major moral transgressions.
Now that is just ONE incident, his whole life has been an unending series of episodes like this, and often worse.
Ligyron
(7,633 posts)After all, you can be forgiven if you haven't sinned.
UpInArms
(51,284 posts)Initech
(100,081 posts)EarnestPutz
(2,120 posts)UpInArms
(51,284 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)Boeing 727 (note third engine in tail)
UpInArms
(51,284 posts)so that dates it from sometime after 2005 (when they got "married" , or was she just being sleazy for dollars prior to that?
NBachers
(17,122 posts)They want women they can knock around and beat up with no consequences; and then do it all over again. Try it with Michelle, and it ain't gonna happen, Sport.
Caliman73
(11,738 posts)I understand the frustration and incredulity of such a thing, however, given the history of how religion has been used, it certainly does not boggle my mind.
I think that in certain instances, religion can uplift, if it is used as inspiration; but as an organizational structure in the hands of men (and I have to say literally men unfortunately) it has been used as a method of coercion, control, and profit for those at the top. It isn't so much religion (though the structure lends itself to authoritarianism) as it is conservatism and the desire to remain in power.
You are absolutely correct that if Melania were President Obama's wife, or any other Democratic politician's, the conservative religious people would be in an uproar about how "ungodly, dirty, disgusting, etc..." she was.
For many people who identify as "Christian" the tenets of the religion are not as important as being on the side that is in power. A lot of those people feel like their way of thinking, their superiority, and their traditions are being challenged even as they so often fail to live up to those traditions.
Martin Eden
(12,870 posts)I have it on good authority that a high percentage of conservative pastors have those photos pinned up on the walls of their bathrooms.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)Let's not forget those righteous men who rant against homosexuality, only to be caught with their pants down (literally) having an affair with a young man.
Martin Eden
(12,870 posts)In the name of Jesus Christ, supporting an amoral POtuS.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)If you know what I mean.
OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)see that narrative get airplay, especially around Evangelical Churches.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)They divide all women into those two groups. They also believe that a woman can go from one to the other. Trump marrying Melania "saved" her in their eyes.
Me.
(35,454 posts)Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)These people are among some of the most predictable in the country. They have only a tenuous relationship with reality. They believe whatever is most convenient to them at any given time. If one could imagine an invisible magician living up in the sky, one could just as easily imagine a first lady who does not take her clothes off for the camera.
Bonx
(2,053 posts)A really lame way to try and shame her.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)about sleeveless dresses, tan suits, etc.
raccoon
(31,111 posts)gtar100
(4,192 posts)It's important to make that distinction. They really can't hide from this situation. So they do their best to ignore it. Anyone trying to "shame" Melania for the photos themselves is off base and missing the important point that republicans and specifically fundamentalist Christians have been shaming Democrats and liberals for this sort of thing for a very long time now and are failing to hold themselves to their own standards. It would be a big nothing if they hadn't been criticizing us for our supposed godless, hedonistic ways in their self-righteous rantings.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)something that went right over your head
bonkers221
(8 posts)at Michelle Obama's bare arms. It doesn't matter to them if they're repugs though. That is the standard double standard.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,035 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)Political Christians rather than Christians of faith.
They support Trump who says he is so perfect that he does not need Christ or his forgiveness.
Like today's evangelical/religious right supporters, Trump is a Political Christian, not a Christian of faith.
Evangelicals/religious right are easily able to spin their beliefs for political expediency.
The Donald who does not have to ask Jesus for forgiveness.
The Donald who ridicules Holy Communion.
Trump: Drink my little wine, have my little cracker
http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/08/13/donald-trump-religion-serfaty-dnt-erin.cnn
niyad
(113,348 posts)says none of that matters, so long as they get what they want.
Cosmocat
(14,566 posts)that babbles this "they are both same bullshit."
This is just one example of a bazillion where republicans/conservatives are bold faced hypocrites, and they country just never stops indulging it.
They have absolutely ZERO moral authority, but much of the country gives more to them and us because they scream how righteous they are, and how horrible we are.
Why the country puts up with it is beyond me.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)Used to cover racism, misogyny, homophobia and greed, and to support
forced birth, guns and $$$.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)He enables them and their beliefs. He says hes pro-life and evangelical leaders support him. They get what they want which is abortion clinics closing, legislation that punishes women and doctors who have and perform abortions. A president who throws foreigners who are brown into cages and who expels them from the country.
So therefore he is anointed by god and who are they to question god? Trump being rich and the president shows that god has doubled down on wanting him to be president.
Thus they must swallow gods will, hook, line, and sinker because it is sinful to question god or to go against gods will.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)Bettie
(16,110 posts)the most conservative and religious, specifically, use more online porn than other less conservative/religious places.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224499.2017.1278736?journalCode=hjsr20
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)so no religious person has any right to judge Trump or any people associated with him.
To do so would be to think you are more moral than God himself.
So there you have it.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)They are the highest and worst kind of hypocrites. Don't think for a minute they really give a shit about the crap they preach. What they care about is control, and they will use any means to get it.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)the right would have crucified her endlessly but we never heard a peep from them about Laura Bush
hypocrisy is SOP for repukes
Nitram
(22,822 posts)a large population of evangelicals or otherwise "religious" people.