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Jerry Falwell, Jr., the son of renowned homophobic religious right leader, Jerry Falwell, tweeted a picture today with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Falwell introduced Trump today at a religious leader summit in New York City.
What Falwell didn’t realize is that he was tweeting a photo that included a Playboy magazine cover with Trump on it.
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This might seem like a small thing, but we’re talking Jerry freaking Falwell here. And we’re talking the religious right cozying up to someone like Trump, who has had three marriages to date, and his adherence to religion has also been questioned. This from the Daily Beast:
While pandering to evangelicals with a Liberty University speech, he infamously mispronounced a biblical reference as “Two Corinthians” instead of “Second Corinthians.”
Additionally, several times throughout Trump’s very public life, he’s been quoted as saying he doesn’t believe in heaven or hell—cornerstones of Christian theology; and has been described as “not a religious man.”
The top official from Trump’s own denomination has denounced the candidate. “Donald Trump’s views are not in keeping with the policies adopted by our church by deliberative process,” Presbyterian Church leader Gradye Parsons said.
Trump also had the nerve to criticize Hillary Clinton’s today, claiming that we know nothing of her faith. As the Daily Beast noted, that’s a bizarre claim:
She’s been in the public eye for years and years, and yet there’s no—there’s nothing out there,” Trump continued.
On the contrary, Clinton has long spoken of her Methodist faith and how it has inspired her years of public service and liberal beliefs.
Nevertheless, he suggested Clinton’s supposed lack of religiosity would lead to policies that should terrify evangelicals. “It’s going to be an extension of Obama but it’s going to be worse,” he warned, “because with Obama you had your guard up. With Hillary you don’t, and it’s going to be worse.”
So, on the one hand you have a woman who went into public service as a result of her faith. And on the other, you have a guy who keeps copies of Playboy in his office. You decide who’s more religious.
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