Dear Evangelicals

[question everything]

You claim that your actions are guided by your belief in your god. Yet, you have been supporting someone whose every actions is an offense to any god. Liar, cheater, fornicator... and all seven (?) sins.

And earlier today, Senator Romney who, like you, claims to have his god guiding his actions said this:

The allegations made in the articles of impeachment are very serious. As a senator-juror, I swore an oath before God to exercise impartial justice. I am profoundly religious. My faith is at the heart of who I am. I take an oath before God as enormously consequential. I knew from the outset that being tasked with judging the president, the leader of my own party, would be the most difficult decision I have ever faced. I was not wrong.

And now what do you say?

[The Blue Flower]

1. And I'd like to add this thought

Justice is a very big deal with God. You might want to keep that in mind.

[Funtatlaguy]

2. Evangelicals think that Mormonism is a cult. They don't like Mitt.

[SMC22307]

10. Seriously, they're not going to listen to Romney.

Courts are stacked and many of them are rolling in Prosperity Gospel dough. They'd turn a blind eye if Fat Nixon *did* murder someone on Fifth Avenue, they're that far gone.

[keithbvadu2]

12. The "prosperity gospel" collectors seem to do much better in the prosperity than the investors/donor

The "prosperity gospel" collectors seem to do much better in the prosperity than the investors/donors.

[question everything]

16. OK. But I have often thoughts that individuals for whom faith is important

at least are respectful of other religions with equally committed followers. Thus, Catholics respect religious Jews and Muslims and others. Perhaps I am naive..

[50 Shades Of Blue]

3. Trump shows what pious phonies they truly are. It's all about $$$ for them.

Romney simply has enough money he doesn't need to suck up to the moneybags evangelical crowd.

[guillaumeb]

4. Many put abortion above all other issues. eom

[TheBlackAdder]

7. It's a device their clergy uses to galvanize and fleece congregants. Nothing in Bible supports that.

[guillaumeb]

9. They speak of being pro-life,

but a consistent pro-life position would include far more than the position of being simply pro-birth.

[Permanut]

11. They could have overturned Roe v. Wade anytime..

in the two years from January 2017 to January 2019, when the wackos controlled the White House, the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Supreme Court. But all we heard from them was crickets.

[Arkansas Granny]

13. They won't deprive themselves of such an important issue.

If they did manage to ban abortions, they would lose the one argument that draws so much of their base.

[guillaumeb]

17. We know that. Informed voters know that.

But the GOP leadership needs this issue to remain open.

[CaptYossarian]

5. They can go smite themselves.

[localroger]

6. For practical reasons, Mormons are likely to take their faith a bit more seriously

For all their faults (and there are many) Mormons don't tend to assume their membership in the LDS gives them an automatic pass to do whatever they want. Their faith separates them from a vast majority surrounding them, so they have to ask hard questions of themselves about how seriously they take that faith. A lot of Christians, particularly Evangelicals, tend to assume that because they are members of the pre-forgiven chosen club that they can do whatever they want, especially if God has proven their worthiness by making them wealthy or even just white.

I believe Mitt's inner conflict here to be genuine, and his decision to be an act of as much fortitude as one might ever expect from a member of the 0.1%. He may be giving up a lot of things he has worked for for decades, but he is probably gaining a good night's peaceful sleep should he think of what the God he worships and probably genuinely believes in might be thinking of him.

[NCLefty]

8. They said Trump was like these "imperfect" people in the bible who were still doing god's work zzz..

You can twist anything in the bible to evil ends. Its been used to justify slavery, segregation, ban on interracial marriage, etc. etc. etc.

[Hekate]

14. They think Trump is sinful Cyrus, who paved the way for Ezra...

The Opus Dei who have overrun our SCOTUS and DOJ, and the Evangelicals, are both cultish entities that can justify anything in the name of their God.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

15. god is a myth.