Here's something that I wrote a couple months ago when a liberal friend asked me
why I support President Trump.
To understand this we need to go back in history.
Let's go back 10 years to the start of the Obama Administration. He was the most
pro-abortion president that we have ever had. Even before he got to the White
House as a senator in the state of Illinois he voted twice to kill babies of
botched abortions who were born alive. They would just be carted off to utility
room where they would be left to die. That's infanticide!
Next, there was the
HHS contraception mandate where Christian businesses and organizations were
forced to provide contraception to their employees, as part of their health care
plans, something that they were against. All he had to do was give them an
exemption, something that Trump did in November 2018. Clearly against the free
exercise clause of the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
After that, the Supreme Court gave homosexual couples a right to get married, something that isn't in the constitution. What's next will they tell my church that we have to allow same sex marriages? Will they tell my priest that he has to officiate same sex marriages? Where does it stop when activist judges such as those that Obama appointed write law from the bench?
Next Christian business owners where forced to provide services for same-sex marriage ceremonies when clearly their religion said that it was a sin. They were forced to go against their consciences and provide services or face steep fines. Some lost their businesses which they had worked all their lives to build up. Clearly this also goes against the free exercise clause to the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Luckily, the courts have agreed that it is unconstitutional to force Christian businessmen to go against their consciences.
In 2012 the Democratic Party voted three times to remove God from their platform. Do you see where this is going? The religious freedom for Christians to exercise their faith is being eroded by people who don't believe in God yet want my vote.
Now enter the 2016 election season. Hillary Clinton promised to give Christians more of the same with her liberal policies.
Then she called us a "basket of deplorables" and said we were irredeemable. Check out a speech that she made at an LGBT event.
"You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. (Laughter/applause) Right? (Laughter/applause) They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic – Islamophobic – you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people – now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks – they are irredeemable, but thankfully, they are not America."
And it gets better with emails from her campaign staff.
At issue was an email exchange that included the Clinton campaign’s director of communications, Jennifer Palmieri. The exchange was released by the anti-secrecy group Wikileaks as part of its release of John Podesta’s hacked emails.
In the emails, which copy Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chair, Center for American Progress senior fellow John Halpin derides Rupert Murdoch and Wall Street Journal editor Robert Thompson for raising their children Catholic.
Halpin’s email goes on to assert that the Catholicism of socially conservative Catholics is “an amazing bastardization of the faith.” He adds: “They must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely backwards gender relations and must be totally unaware of Christian democracy.”
In her email, Palmieri, who served as President Obama’s director of communications before assuming her role in the Clinton campaign replies in a way seen as insulting to both Catholics and Evangelicals.
She wrote: “I imagine they think it is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion. Their rich friends wouldn’t understand if they became evangelical.”
In another email exchange, John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chair, talked about starting various groups in order to fundamentally change the Catholic Church.
Writing to Podesta, Sandy Newman of Voices for Progress - a non-Catholic - writes: “There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic Church.”
Do you see the problem. I admit that Trump isn't a saint, but neither was Hillary Clinton. At least Trump reached out to Christians. He didn't trash my church. And it was more than just abortion. While he has been stong on abortion he has also promised to protect our religious freedom. He prays to God instead of denying God. He gave us exemptions to the HHS mandate so we wouldn't have to act against our consciences.
Now it's 2020. Joe Biden isn't any better. Joe Biden claims to be Catholic, but goes against the teachings of the church. He supports abortion. His running mate Kamala Harris has attacked the Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus, a charity organization that I belong to. I am offended. He supports same sex marriage. He even went as far as to officiate a same sex wedding. He has promised to restore the contraception mandate to the health care system, forcing the little sisters of the poor to go against their freedom of conscience.
Biden is not a Catholic. He may say he is, but to be Catholic, you have to believe and act on everything that the Catholic church teaches. It's not a smorgasbord where you can pick and choose what you want to believe.
One thing we all need to remember is that we are voting for a President, not a Pope. Everyone we vote for will be cast as a sinner. Everyone I have ever voted for is a sinner. I am a sinner. You are a sinner. We are all sinners. Pope Francis calls the church a hospital for sinners. As Christians we don't stop there. We do what Jesus Christ did. We forgive those who sin against us. That's why Jesus Christ died on the cross. So that we all could be saved and forgiven for our sins. I don't know if Trump is still doing the things that he is accused of doing in the past. He hasn't been convicted of any crimes. Is he guilty of having a big ego? Yes. But so are a lot of other politicians. That's not against the law. As Christians, shouldn't we be forgiving him for his sins? In the meantime, I'll let God judge his soul.
If you really want to fix problems and heal the divisions you don't do it by attacking people for their faith. Instead you try to learn why they believe what they believe. What's evident is that the progressive liberal left does not understand Christianity. They look at it as a roadblock for the quest of power. But power comes from God.
Those who say that Trump is not fit for office never tell us who would be a better candidate. One thing I won't do is to vote for a third party candidate. In a close election that could give the election to the other candidate who is worse.
