#values voters

If you haven't heard by now, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump met with a group of prominent evangelical leaders on Tuesday. The meeting was not billed as a wholesale endorsement from those attending, but more of a question and answer session concerning the issues about which conservative Christians care most. For a candidate that has spent much of the past year demeaning opponents, making fun of crippled reporters, cursing, and flaunting his greed, one would think Trump's candidacy would be a hard sell to the evangelical voting bloc formerly known as the "moral majority." However, since Trump has become the inevitable Republican nominee, many evangelicals have latched onto Trump's lone redeeming quality–he's not Hillary Clinton. There are still some "Never Trump" holdouts. Trump's campaign demeanor and his track record as a greedy, strip-club/casino-owning, foul-mouthed reality television star deem him unelectable in the eyes of many. Never has the uncomfortable juxtaposition of Trump and the "religious right" been so captured as in the photo taken on Tuesday featuring Trump's biggest evangelical supporter, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. giving Trump a thumbs-up with a framed Playboy magazine featuring Trump and a porn star on the cover on the wall behind them. A leader of the same group that raked adulterous President Bill Clinton over the coals for his many indiscretions and that has repeatedly attacked President Obama over his myriad immoral policies posing for a photo-op with a Playboy magazine in the background. Talk about an embarrassing moment for us "values voters." Trump's mindless rhetoric of the last year and his increasingly repugnant policy proposals should have been enough to expose him as a fraud. But it was Falwell's photo gaffe that has exposed the fraudulence of the "moral majority." There is nothing morally upstanding about Donald Trump. And before you shoot that comment or email my way calling me judgmental or a Pharisee, you would waste no time calling President Obama and/or Hillary Clinton immoral. In fact, I've seen you post much more egregious words about both of them on your Facebook statuses, so don't even go there. Given his track record, it's hypocritical for us to issue Trump a free pass while lambasting every immoral liberal that has ever undermined the Judeo-Christian values we say we hold dear. With all of that said, in the interest of not making all evangelical Christians look hypocritical, please don't tell anyone else if you plan to vote for Trump. Please don't publicly defend him against evil Hillary's attacks in the coming months. After all, he has given her more than enough ammunition to use in the fight. Resist the urge to put that bumper sticker on the car that your unsaved friends see you driving to church every Sunday. Don't post that clever tweet or Facebook status revealing Trump as the man who'll bring America back to God. Pastor, please don't even think about comparing Donald Trump to King Cyrus in your Election Sunday sermon. As difficult as it may be to resist, please don't purchase that Trump yard sign. Go ahead and vote Trump. But please, for the sake of your own testimony, and that of the Church as a whole, don't tell another soul that you did. Mr. or Mrs. Evangelical, your vote is between you and God. Considering the choice we have before us, it has never been more important that you keep it that way.

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Mike Huckabee, failed Presidential candidate and would be Theocrat in Chief if ever elected, stated this last year after the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) struck down the anti-gay DOMA law, which discriminated against gay and lesbian couples in marriage: "My immediate thoughts on the SCOTUS ruling that determined that same sex marriage is okay: “Jesus wept.” Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all." Nothing, Mike Huckabee is in the Constitution about a god. In terms of our system of government and the Constitution, yep, the SCOTUS is bigger than your god, if not, we become a theocracy. The SCOTUS is the highest court in the land. These aren't random men and women. They are nominated by the President of the United States when there is an open set and than have to be confirmed by at least a majority of U.S. Senators (sometimes needing 60 votes to overcome a filibuster) so it is not easy to become one. Too bad you will never get to appoint one, by the way. Who selects, directly or indirectly, your god? Nobody? We must take your word that he exists and that he wants to rule us? Sorry, if I wanted that form of government, I would move to Iran. Lastly, in our system of government, the courts, and especially this court, is a check on the majority and Congress and the states. The Bill of Rights mean nothing if they didn't exist. Finally, who cares if they wear robes or not? Why are those always whining about the courts complaining their articles of clothing? You said Jesus wept, maybe he wept because he is sick of people like you being his spokesman. By the way, if you the reader (not Mike Huckabee who I highly doubt will actually ever read this) want to support gay rights, please check out the National Center for Lesbian Rights or Lambda Legal. Thanks. P.S., I am listening right now on the radio to someone who makes Mike Huckabee look like the chair of a gay pride parade, talking about "sodomy based marriages." Sigh, what I will listen to in order to point out the bigotry of the religious right-wing.

What a shitty shitface she is (and all religious conservatives)

*I should clarify/edit this as: Either they believe this, or are willing to pretend to believe it in order to feel more validated and righteous. Which some might argue is even worse, but hard to say.

Strong majorities of each religious group polled said that Earth’s average temperature is getting warmer.

People are strange.