I remember the day pretty vividly. It was the day the Access Hollywood tape came out with the person in the White House exclaiming that it was okay to grab women and basically do whatever you want to them. The thing that struck me was when my brother who is fairly religious called me in a rage about the news story. He seriously could not believe that someone would talk that way about women. It really shook him to the core. It was on that day that my brother, a religious evangelical, became a never trumper.
The man disgusts my brother beyond anything I have ever seen. It was through this that I learned something I did not know about my brother. He is a true gentleman. That is what upset him so much. It is the way the man treated women that disgusted him so much.
It has been very hard for him to attend church where there is a lot of pro trump bias. He really cannot stand it. It is as though they are justifying that this behavior was somewhat okay, or that it was made up. It was not made up. It was not fake news. It was real and it happened. There should have been wholesale denunciations by the church. Instead he got support. He got mulligans. He got an interpretation of the bible in that God uses the wicked for good.
It is disgusting and it is intolerable. The bed has been made and now evangelicals must lie in it. I cannot tell you the distress that is within so many people of faith to realize that character no longer matters. That crudeness is okay because that is just the way he talks. The lasting damage to the faith will last decades and generations. There is no depth of depravity that will turn people of faith away from trump. They are now the depraved. They are now the corrupt. They are now the people that will be looked upon with disgust because they unwaveringly supported a miscreant of biblical proportions.
I do not understand why the truth doesn’t matter. Character does not matter. The shredding of righteousness is upon all Americans. The evangelicals did this to us. Never forget that.