On a recent podcast, New York Times columnist David French made a bizarre statement while attacking Trump-supporting evangelical Christians.
The Donald Trump presidency is, in a very concrete way, the white evangelical church's delivery to America. Eighty-two percent of white evangelicals voted for him, self-described.
So when you're hearing stories like Andrew Tate, the pornographer, who is accused of rape and sex-trafficking, is now being allowed to come to the United States of America after diplomatic pressure, that is what the church has done.
A quick personal note: I have always understood a Christian refusing to embrace President Trump and distancing themselves from his character and conduct. But the eagerness and giddiness that so many seem to feel to mock and deride the Bride of Christ over political disagreements is extremely disappointing. I'm quite sure many evangelical Christians with conservative politics have said unkind things to David French due to his political leanings. That doesn't excuse or permit French to take outlandish and extraordinarily unproductive swipes at the Church of Jesus.
French's attempted indictment is silly and insulting. It would be a Herculean task to find an outspoken Christian evangelical who promotes, celebrates, or endorses the criminal and abusive behavior of Tate, or even his dweebish mannerisms and comical attempts at machismo.
Unable to do so, the logic French relies upon to avoid having his characterization called out as slander, is to say, "Well, that group of Christians voted for Trump, Trump is sleazy, so Trump's diplomats are presumably tasked with defending sleaze around the world, so that likely means they pressured Romania to permit Tate to return to America, so it's really all those Christians' fault."
Again, it's really sad to see one believer go to such dishonest lengths to denigrate others. Where's the charity? Where's the love? Where's the goodwill? Isn't that how the world will know we are His disciples? How we love our fellow Christians?
What's remarkable is the effort to chastise the Church for indirect permissiveness involving a wicked man's travel plans ... while failing to celebrate how the direct work of Christians has led to sweeping, fantastic changes that are bringing the nation's policies in line with God's commands and Kingdom.
Like this news reported by Mission America:
[M]any hopeful signs point to a slowdown of child corruption. With companies backing off DEI and snubbing the so-called 'Corporate Equality Index,' the largest homosexual activist group in the country, the Human Rights Campaign, just laid off 20% of its staff. And one of the most influential (and harmful) groups in schools nationwide, the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network, GLSEN, just laid off 60% of its staff. Corporate donations are down and federal grants will be drying up.
GLSEN is notorious for its sexual grooming of children in public schools. With the assistance of federal monies, the activist organization has worked diligently to institute what they call "safe zones" in schools - places where students can be counseled, "affirmed," and provided guidance apart from parental knowledge and oversight.
Notice it has been public influence and the exposure of the harms these groups perpetrate against young people that have resulted in these victories against child corruption. And who has been spearheading much of it? The same evangelical voices that French bizarrely blames for propping up a sex-trafficker like Tate.
Something doesn't add up, does it?
But GLSEN and HRC weren't the only two activist organizations suffering losses.
The Trevor Project, which apparently had 600 employees, will be downsizing because donations have dropped and a large government grant is possibly on the chopping block. This 'LGBTQ'- oriented suicide hotline also operates private chat rooms for youth as young as 13 with no parent oversight.
If you were unaware, the previous head of governmental relations for the Trevor Project was none other than Sam Brinton, the former Biden administration official keen on wearing dresses and stealing women's clothing at airports. That provides some insight into why many whistleblowers were accurately calling the Trevor Project's secretive "suicide prevention online space" a predator's dream.
And now, that avenue to child corruption appears to be rapidly closing due in no small part to the political involvement of evangelical Christians.
So, it really begs us to ask, does it not, why professing Christians like French and the ones who host him for weekly church-bashing commentaries are quick to diminish the moral good coming from evangelical engagement while promoting false narratives about the bad.
It's almost as though a preoccupation with partisanship is outweighing common sense and good judgment.
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