In spite of his stunning incompetence in dealing with coronavirus outbreak, Trump hasn't lost the support of the most loyal members of his base - white conservative evangelicals.
According to The Huffington Post:
About 7 in 10 white evangelical Christians approve of the way Trump is handling issues related to the coronavirus outbreak, including 52% who strongly approve of his performance, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll conducted over the weekend. In contrast, only 45% of all American adults surveyed said they strongly or somewhat approve of how Trump is handling the outbreak. Seventy percent of white evangelicals also approve of the way the U.S. government is managing the outbreak. Only 47% of all respondents surveyed said the same. The data suggests that the president’s most loyal religious supporters are standing by their man despite reports of infighting and indecision at the White House as the pandemic unfolded.
It's all about rationalization with these people. They can always point the finger at someone else, such as the media. Or, like this guy in the above video, can blame abortion and marriage equality.
From Right Wing Watch:
When right-wing pastor Perry Stone held a prayer service at his church in Cleveland, Tennessee, earlier this week, he declared that the current COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in America is a “reckoning” brought on by the nation’s rejection of God and its embrace of reproductive rights and marriage equality.
Why is there a reckoning?” he asked. “Because we have by law forced God out of our country and basically told him, ‘In public places, you’re not welcome.’ You’re not welcomed in our schools, so our schools are now shut down. No prayer in public school, no Bible reading in public school. Now they’re telling kids to stay home for who knows how long, so our schools are shut down.”
“Then we have said to God, ‘The infants that you put in our wombs, we don’t respect them, we don’t want them, we will get them out of our bellies through abortion,'” Stone continued. “If you watch the women who are pro-choice, the majority of them have a spirit about them where there is no love.”
“The Bible talks about going after ‘strange flesh,'” Stone added, as he recounted the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah. “There is a reckoning because the courts of the land passed a law to take an infant’s life, that it was OK, and for marriage as we have known it to be changed into something we have never known. Both of their laws, biblically in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, are what God calls an abomination. And the Bible teaches us that God is long-suffering, he is not willing that any perish, he wants everyone to come to repentance, but there will be a time when the Lord says, ‘Enough is enough.'” "
Yesterday it was hate group the Family Research Council speaking against a coronavirus relief bill because of the possibility that it could help same-sex couples. Today is this fool with the tired nonsense which we have heard before about God punishing the world for abortion and marriage equality.
It's a rather cold comfort to know that regardless of how dire any situation can get, we can always count on certain people to be the self-righteous, homophobic braying jackasses we always knew they were.
3 comments:
Their god must be the most perfect parallel to Thanos ever created. Pissed off at such specific portions of the population and willing to wipe out massive swathes of humanity instead of targeting the ones supposedly causing all his ire. Their god is either a narcissistic sociopath or just has incredibly bad aim.
BlackTsunami,
It is so disgusting that these people think that the almighty is punishing us for abortion and same sex marriage, and he is still a good God, yet he never punished us for slavery or the genocide of Native Americans, both of which were done in his name. Its also not like this virus isn't also infecting people regardless of their political beliefs. Its a virus it doesn't care.
I also can't help but wonder what Perry Stone thinks the 1918 Spanish Flew was a punishment for? You know back than both abortion and same sex marriage were against the law, and that pandemic was at least as bad as Covid19.
MickiT,
You wrote,
Their god must be the most perfect parallel to Thanos ever created. Pissed off at such specific portions of the population and willing to wipe out massive swathes of humanity instead of targeting the ones supposedly causing all his ire. Their god is either a narcissistic sociopath or just has incredibly bad aim.
They make him sound worse than Thanos, at least the movie version of Thanos. Movie Thanos at least was motivated by a desire to end starvation and overpopulation. He may have gone way too far in an attempt to achieve those goals in the story, but its kind of hard to argue that his motives were evil, regardless of the fact that his actions were evil, and completely unjustified. He was actually a rather sympathetic villain for that reason.
If on the other hand, in the story, he used the infinity Gauntlet to murder half of the universe because he wanted to punish people for tolerating a certain type of consensual sex, very few people would find him very sympathetic at all. Pretty much everyone can tell you why over population and starvation are inherently bad. On the other hand, most of the homophobic bigots that I've come across online, rarely even attempt to give me a reason why allowing gay sex or even same sex marriage is harmful. Most the time, they either repeat the claim that its bad because God says its bad, or they just accuse me of enabling degeneracy. The closest one of them that I was arguing with came to actually giving me a reason why same sex marriage was harmful, was claim that same sex couples can't marry because two men or two women can't have children. Even ignoring that we allow, elderly and infertile couples, along with people who don't want to have children to marry, that only begs the question as to why childless marriages are harmful.
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