I would apologize for writing yet another apology for “the Donald” but the hypocrisy of the left will be on full display today.
Since this site somehow lost favor with Google, we’ve gotten a lot less visits in recent months. Apparently we didn’t pay someone enough money for “SEO” or some such & such. It’s really incredible that the supposedly “free” internet has come to this. That those that pay get to play and those that don’t just dwindle into non-existence, but that’s for a different day.
Today I find myself, yet again, defending Donald Trump. A problem most conservatives are finding themselves with almost daily. This is no surprise at all. In fact his recent statements are no surprise at all.
As a Christian heterosexual male, the things Donald Trump said in 2005 (7 years prior to the Benghazi attack, might I add) as an unmarried (retraction: Trump married his current wife on January 22, 2005, months prior to this incident) private citizen is simultaneously reprehensible and patently unsurprising. Unless we happen to spend our entire life hiding from non-believers we see this on display regularly. Not only was the man single, but by the end of that same year he had married a fashion model who posed for pornographic pictures. Is anyone surprised that Donald Trump did not behave like a Christian in 2005? Is anyone surprised that the celebrity with him “Billy Bush” (who was married at the time) was going right along with it? Of course not!
Trump’s immoral fantasies don’t hold a candle to the Clinton’s immoral realities.
Firstly, let’s look at this from a secular perspective because the VERY short clip makes several things clear:
1. “They let you do it.” – He is describing consensual contact. While consensual heterosexual contact may be “deplorable” to many liberals, it’s also what the vast majority of living human beings owe their conception to. This is nothing new. As a Christian I do “deplore” fornication and adultery, but there is so much of that to go around with our current candidates that it seems fairly rational to me to defend the one that only talked over the one that actually did, while POTUS, in the oval office, while married, with a subordinate!!!!!! Gosh, does it ever stink to high heaven that we’re in this situation but Trump’s immoral fantasies don’t hold a candle to the Clinton’s immoral realities.
2. He “struck out” with the married lady. For “locker room banter” this isn’t very flattering to Mr. T. He basically admits to taking a married lady shopping to try to get her into bed, but then it sure sounds like he didn’t get anywhere. For those of us that have heard plenty of this “banter” it’s kinda surprising that he didn’t proceed to describe physically impossible sexual feats of inhuman strength. As such “banter” is usually accompanied by comically impossible exaggerations.
3. He apologized. Within 24 hours, no denials, no claims of being framed or that some foreign government was sabotaging his campaign. He simply took responsibility and apologized. No grand juries, no “what the definition of ‘is’ is,” no 4 years of congressional hearings. That is the most newsworthy part of this whole thing.
In closing, if you are NOT a minor, please take a look at these public quotes from a big Hillary supporter. If you are one of those people that have succeeded in sheltering yourself entirely from the state of our world today, then perhaps you’ll want to avoid that too, but it really demonstrates the double-standard at work just now. Has Hillary called this artist “deplorable?” OF COURSE NOT!
Hillary? Kaine? Bueller? No, here’s what Hillary said about the author of the above “public quotes“: “Bless his heart.” It’s a deplorable double-standard.
It really stinks to have to apologize for Donald, but he remains the lesser of two evils, and there are several discerning believers (Dobson et al) that truly believe that Donald Trump is a work-in-progress for the Holy Spirit. No doubt his need to apologize this morning has him rethinking the validity of God’s commands and the rightness of His laws. There are many paths to revelation in Christ, and one is the abundance of blessings despite our failures. Even Solomon “denied [himself] nothing [his] eyes desired” (Ecc 2:10) and he had more lovers than Trump could buy with his billions. Solomon learned that philandering is “meaningless”, Trump has learned that it isn’t just meaningless, it is dangerous, detrimental, and harmful. “Baby Christian” indeed?
Finally, let’s not miss the real & well-known fact that Mr. Trump is really describing here. The fact that the world is full of prostitutes… FULL OF THEM. An Old Testament Prophet’s life became an example of this fact when Hosea married Gomer. Today we get “leaked” celebrity sex tapes and rock groupies. Everyone is rushing to forfeit their souls to gain the world and some really do gain a lot for their prostitution. Don’t be surprised, until Jesus is King nobody can be truly happy.
On the issues of the Supreme Court and abortion alone, a vote for Trump is justified despite his past moral failings.
I agree with you Glenn. All of us are tired of voting for the lesser of two evils, but until Jesus comes back it’s all we’ll have.
Sorry, but the lesser of two evils is still….evil.
If ones singular walk with Christ allows it by all means vote your conscience but for those who criticize us who find both candidate abhorrent, let us vote ours.
And I’m being completely sincere not smug or patronizing.
I disagree, but want to point out a fallacy here. Trump was married and Melania was pregnant at the time of this recording. Second, the things he was proposing were sexual assault, not locker room banter and I find it sickening that people believe that all men talk this way. Finally, he is currently being charged with rape of a 13 year old girl. This is the pattern of his whole life, not just an 11 year old tape and the Bible tells us to have nothing to do with people like this, Christian or not.
So what is your advice to voters? Hillary Clinton?
I agree about the timing, Trump married his current wife in January 2005, before he said this stuff. What I don’t necessarily agree with is the value of openly opposing all of the candidates simultaneously. It sure would be nice if some of the scriptures were written during a democratic era. Instead we simply get bad kings, good kings, and everything in between. The first King God picked turned bad after God Himself voted for him. I dunno.
“I find it sickening that people believe that all men talk this way” – I don’t know anyone that thinks “all men” talk this way, but I do know a lot of non-believers that talk like this pretty consistently in private. The only real difference is the words they use are more current (did you see the Kanye West lyrics? He makes “The Donald” seem like as pastor’s wife). I have no trouble believing that Trump has “heard worse” from Bill Clinton on the golf course, and I’ve lost count of how many people have described Hillary Clinton’s vulgarity riddled tirades. It’s life without God.
I’m sure glad you posted, because I think for believers the real debate isn’t whether “all men” talk this way, when Trump was married, or whether Trump is a narcissistic misogynist. NONE OF US like him. The real debate is whether a Christian should ever vote for the lesser of two evils since the lesser is still evil. That debate boils down to the question of whether Christians should even vote at all. The consequences of the declaration that a Christian should never vote for anyone that isn’t Jesus is that there will no longer be any Christian influence in elections at all. So Hillary can appoint pro-abortion judges, more babies die, etc… I agree with Glenn Tuley, the SCOTUS picks alone justify picking the only candidate that we know won’t replace Scalia with a butcher.
Unfortunately, Trump’s our only hope to slow abortion, and that just convinces me all-the-more that we’ve got little hope that Armageddon isn’t on our doorstep. If God could vote for Saul, I can vote for Trump. Knowing how much both sides of the aisle despise Trump I know that his power will be checked more than any other president in history, perhaps he’ll just delegate the entire job to Pence and go ogling more women (which he couldn’t any longer because he’d get impeached quicker than Clinton.) Check out 2 Samuel 2:28, Saul was no “one woman man”, nor was David for that matter, even Josiah was with Hamutal and Zebidah. Biblical monogamy originated as Paul’s standard for an overseer within the Church. Trump isn’t running for church.