The Religious Right and Trump's Victory

[HAnnA MArin County]

Do the Jesus voters even have that much influence anymore? More and more people are becoming irreligious, thanks in large part to the repeated hypocrisy of the so-called "born again evangelical conservative Christian" Republicans who have exploited religion for their own personal gains. It's hard to take them seriously when they preach about the "sanctity of marriage" and then get caught committing adultery, or they call themselves "pro-life" but they pay for abortions for the women in their lives.

One good thing about Trump's election and the evangelicals who supported him is that their hypocrisy has been validated. They've collectively determined that in order to be an "evangelical," you must vote Republican regardless of whom the nominee is. Forget the fact that Trump owns casinos (as many evangelicals believe gambling is a sin) and let's just ignore #Pussygate and who cares that Trump was pro-choice up until he decided to run as a Republican and then pulled a Romney and flip-flopped. Yeah, I'd say the days of the evangelicals calling the shots in the GOP are long gone. No longer can they preach the sanctity of marriage when they've supported a twice-divorced greedy plutocrat (but I guess to them, the only way one can be forgiven for those sins is to be a Republican. If you're a Democrat, you must be subjected to all the fire and brimstone eternal damnation pits of Hell rapture because Democrats support baby killing and homosexuals destroying "traditional marriage," whatever that means).

Give me a break.