Conservative Christians were ever so proud of themselves last fall after electing as president a self-proclaimed sexual assaulter who'd married three times and stiffed scores of small business owners who'd done work for him.
And now that we are watching their choice ravage the foundations of our democracy—like a free press, an independent judiciary, the system of checks and balances, and even freedom of religion—they are just beside themselves with glee over their access to the White House. Sure, we might not have a country left by the time Trump and his troupe of thoroughly incompetent but totally committed Muslim hating racist aides are done, but boy is it ever rapturous to personally contribute to end times at the White House. Jeremy Peters writes:
Mr. Trump has given many conservative Christian leaders his personal cellphone number. He has solicited their advice for filling key positions. He has invited them to the White House. And he has staffed his cabinet with many people of deep Christian faith, like Ben Carson, a Seventh-day Adventist, and Betsy DeVos, who was raised in the Calvinist tradition. [...]
Richard Land, a prominent Southern Baptist and a member of Mr. Trump’s evangelical advisory board, said he had been repeatedly asked to provide names of people who would like to join the administration.
“That didn’t happen before,” Mr. Land said in an interview. He described his bemusement to a Christian news outlet last month, saying, “Are we hallucinating, or is this actually happening?”
Sweet Jesus, a madman is running our country and he's given me his cell phone number—glory be to god!
On to descriptions of all the Christianness coursing through the White House walls ...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a Methodist, has questioned the wisdom of separating church and state.
Praise the Lord!
Tom Price, the new health and human services secretary, helped lead an effort in Congress to repeal the federal mandate that insurers cover birth control, on the ground that it violates religious freedom.
Mr. Carson, the nominee for secretary of housing and urban development, once said he doubted the validity of the Big Bang theory.
Andrew F. Puzder, the labor secretary nominee, was an early architect of the legal effort to pass laws stating that life begins at conception.
More babies, less science, and forced births—Hallelujah! The faster we warm the earth, the quicker we reach the rapture!
“You don’t need to be one of us to get our vote,” said J. Hogan Gidley, a Republican strategist who has worked for the presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, both of whom are deeply religious. “Donald Trump didn’t walk around pretending to be this paragon of Christian virtue. What he did was say he’d protect your right to be one.”
No moral fiber required! Just the promise that Christians have the right to impose their will on everyone else. In other words, we’re more than happy to sacrifice integrity at the alter of political influence. Jesus would be proud.