An evangelical pastor claimed he was kicked out of and permanently banned from Virginia’s Liberty University after he criticized Jerry Falwell Jr., the Christian school’s president, for aligning “with the darkest contours of Trumpism.”
Jonathan Martin, an author and preacher from Tulsa, Oklahoma, said he was at the univeristy Monday night attending a concert by musical group Johnnyswim, when campus police came to take him away.
Martin had expressed a desire on social media days before to organize a prayer session on Liberty’s campus. On Monday, he said he was told by police that if he ever returned to the university’s campus, he would face arrest.
"What does it mean for a college administration to be this afraid of free speech? What precisely do they fear?” Martin wrote on Instagram. ”[Jerry Falwell] openly encourages his students to carry guns, but fears public prayer from Christians who openly embrace nonviolence.”
Tonight after the @JOHNNYSWIM show, 3 armed @LibertyU police officers (& I think 2 not in uniform)came & escorted me out of their green room pic.twitter.com/eigyE1LjaG— Jonathan Martin (@theboyonthebike) October 31, 2017
Jerry Falwell Jr. was one of the first well known evangelicals to embrace Donald Trump the candidate, and continues to support him despite everything that has been revealed about him before the election and since he moved into the White House.
You know I keep wondering how ANY of these so called Christians can continue to support Donald Trump, and now it looks like not all of them can.
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"The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution each contain a Due Process Clause. Due process deals with the administration of justice and thus the Due Process Clause acts as a safeguard from arbitrary denial of life, liberty, or property by the Government outside the sanction of law."
ReplyDelete"Due process balances the power of law of the land and protects the individual person from it. ... Due process has also been frequently interpreted as limiting laws and legal proceedings (see substantive due process) so that judges, instead of legislators, may define and guarantee fundamental fairness, justice, and liberty."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-suspect-in-nyc-attack-should-get-death-penalty
How can these christians continue to support Donnie Dotard? Keep in mind that the majority of WHITE fundamentalists support Dotard. Black fundamentalists do not. It really comes down to racism for these people. Add in their homophobia, misogyny, and nationalism and the answer is clear why they support Dotard.
ReplyDeleteOT. Georgia Peach, I loved your MAGA sayings so much, I printed them off on labels, put them on postcards, and sent them off to not my president.
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DeleteFatwell's only claim to fame is being the direct descendant of the spawn of Satan. He needs to rot in hell with all evangelical imposters and money whores.
ReplyDeleteBasically they're all a bunch of heretics.
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Deleteg. You and I know that these religious a holes only use God to promote their lifestyles and power. They don't have to pay taxes. They can prey on us sinners and our massive amounts of guilt for our last dime. Of coarse Falwell Jr. is in it for the control of all God giving and Trump giving power to the whiteman and his religion. There's nothing noble about these low class personalities who stand on a pulpit and preach. I don't believe God touched them. If they are being led it's not be the good God, it's by the God of this world. If while you are preaching and your' other hand is out for someone's last dime, then there's something wrong with that. And that God will make you rich if you give me money bs is just that. So each time people get outraged by the Joel Osteens of this world, I have to roll my eyes. What did you expect??? They are in it for the green god which means power. Absolute power.
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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/manafort-role-in-2006-attack-on-us-marines-in-ukraine-examined-1053234243515
Trump Supporters Petition Jeff Sessions to Make Them a Protected Class
ReplyDeleteAs the Justice Department guts L.G.B.T.Q. rights, companies working with Trump want their own discrimination protection.
So far, Jeff Sessions has spent much of his time as attorney general working to undercut federal protections for the L.G.B.T.Q. community, minority Americans, and, of course, immigrants. Now, a new group is lobbying Sessions to become a protected class: Trump supporters. Bloomberg reports the amazing news that construction companies slated to help build Donald Trump‘s big, beautiful border wall are trying to forestall any political backlash by “pushing for federal protections, including stopping cities and states from penalizing them.”
The Associated General Contractors of America has asked Sessions to sue to prevent cities and states from denying companies contracts, or divesting them if they participate in building the wall, the express purpose of which is to keep Mexicans out of the country. In addition, the group is demanding “assurances that local authorities will provide reasonable protection for workers and equipment on job sites, as well as contractor reimbursement for security costs or damage from vandalism.” As Jordan Howard, director of the Federal and Heavy Construction Division for the A.G.C.A. put it, “This is not an attractive business decision, considering a lot of the opposition and the little support you’re getting from the federal government.”
One city in Arizona and three in California have already passed resolutions not to do business with firms that are involved in constructing the wall, and similar measures have been proposed in eight other states and 10 municipalities, including New York City. “Companies have a choice: help build the wall, a monument to racism and bigotry, or do business in New York City,” Public Advocate Letitia James said in March. “We won’t allow you to do both.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/trump-supporters-protected-class
My city is one of them. No contracts for Trump's racists.
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ReplyDelete...The toxicity of our current president is the contagious sort. Spend any time in his presence and your reputation begins to curdle. It’s the Trump curse. And it’s as lethal to a person’s mojo as dating Madonna was in the old days. Think about the able people around Trump, like Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, chief of staff John Kelly, and Gary Cohn, the president’s top economic adviser. Prior to the election, these men wouldn’t have touched a man like Trump with a barge pole. But because of either patriotism or résumé buffing, they tied themselves to this man and they now realize they made a mistake. With so many prevaricators in the current administration, about the only one who tells the truth about the boss is Tillerson. Thanks to him, we have “fucking moron” in the pages of those family newspapers.
The commander in chief’s erratic early-morning Twitter feed is a symptom of a mind that even his Republican handlers and enablers have begun to realize is dangerously, epically unhinged. There will come a time when the subject of one of his angry tweets falls victim to some overzealous fan of the president’s. Tweets, as silly as they are, and as silly as they sound, have consequences, both for individuals and for nation-states. Most thinking people were appalled by his approach to the families of fallen soldiers and at the way Trump responded via Twitter to the devastation of Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. His description of the territory when he met with members of the House of Representatives and then later with Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy was one for the books—perhaps of the psychological medical variety. “This is an island sitting in the middle of an ocean—and it’s a big ocean, a very big ocean. . . . [It’s] out in the ocean. You can’t just drive your trucks there.” If it seemed as if the president’s seminar on Puerto Rico was designed to be understood by an idiot, it’s probably because this is the way it was explained to him.
As we await deliverance from this serial series of horrors, whether by ballot or through some other constitutional event, there’s the current reality to contend with. The president has no coherent philosophy to speak of. The West Wing is as much a seat-of-the-pants operation as Trump’s ramshackle real-estate operation was. Incompetence and destruction are the names of the game, whether it’s treaties with our allies or preening bluster directed at our foes, at the achievements of his predecessor, or at government institutions themselves.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/the-good-the-bad-and-the-truly-meaningfully-dangerous-ed-letter
I believe you are right about who ever has spent time in Trump's presence gets a ruined reputation. But I also believe that they were corrupt before they got in his presence. So good to see them get outed. Before we only suspected that they were a holes, now we know. Trump is the litmus test to your evil character.
DeleteI laughed reading the comments about Trump explaining that Puerto Rico is an island with a big ocean around it. Haha Trump may not have grasped assistance would not be like helping Houston. When Trump met with the Governor of PR, Trump kept speaking to the press as if they and no one else but Trump understood or knew why or what PR needed nor the challenges there or damage from two hurricanes. Probably he is as dense as a brick because he is a deluded know it all.
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ReplyDeleteSam Clovis just withdrew his nomination to an Agriculture Department post.
https://www.vox.com/2017/11/2/16593508/sam-clovis-mueller
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little Elfman:"When Sessions was questioned by senators in June, he had no knowledge of “anyone connected to the Trump campaign” communicating with Russian operatives, nor was he aware of “any type of interference with any campaign or election in the United States.”"
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Sessions committed perjury and Al Franken is not going to let it go.
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Um... Wasn't it just last week that the right wingosphere was having a stroke about people with controversial views being blocked from speaking on college campuses? Glass houses and stones come to mind, somehow.
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