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Jennifer Rubin: How many norms can Trump and evangelical leaders break in one meeting?
Source: Washington Post
How many norms can Trump and evangelical leaders break in one meeting?
By Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
August 29 at 11:30 AM
The Post reports:
In a closed-door meeting with evangelical leaders, President Trump on Monday warned of violence from the left if Democrats retake control of Congress in November, according to multiple reports.
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In addition, he wrongly told evangelical leaders that he repealed a law preventing them from conducting politics from the pulpit and then asks them to behave in such a fashion that likely runs afoul of the rules for non-exempt organizations. (Trump also erroneously claimed Monday that he had done away with the Johnson Amendment, which he described to the evangelical leaders as a disaster for you, according to the NBC report. The provision bars religious institutions and other tax-exempt organizations from endorsing political candidates.) Trump seems not to know that repeal of the Johnson Amendment was ultimately not included in last years Republican tax bill. While Trump signed an executive order aimed at making it easier for churches to take part in politics, an act of Congress would be required to repeal the provision itself. The evangelical leaders shouldnt take tax advice from the president.
Consider all the things wrong with this meeting. First, the president is conducting an explicitly campaign-related meeting in the White House. He simply doesnt understand that its not his house; its the American peoples. Second, once more he is hinting at, if not holding the threat of, violence over the heads of Americans. Pitting one group of Americans against another by suggesting one side will commit violence is the stuff of tinpot dictatorships. Third and this concerns the evangelicals far more than it does Trump the degree to which these religious leaders throw themselves at Trumps feet, ignoring all manner of immoral and un-Christian conduct for the sake of political power, is bracing and has hurt both religion and politics.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/08/29/how-many-norms-can-trump-and-evangelical-leaders-break-in-one-meeting/
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Jennifer Rubin: How many norms can Trump and evangelical leaders break in one meeting? (Original Post)
Eugene
Aug 2018
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BlueJac
(7,838 posts)1. Trump is scum of earth...
there is nothing that he won't say or do!
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)2. The breaking norms boat
left a long, long time ago.
DavidDvorkin
(19,479 posts)3. As many as they want to.
BootinUp
(47,165 posts)4. Satan's speed!
0rganism
(23,957 posts)5. norms? haha, how quaint
once again, our media shows it's about 5 years late to the game
Rebl2
(13,523 posts)6. If church's
start allowing politics in the pulpit, then all churches should lose tax exempt status.
hatrack
(59,587 posts)7. "All of them, Katie".
.