Pastor Who Now Defends Trump Demanded a Devout Christian President in 2008
Pastor Robert Jeffress, an evangelical adviser to Donald Trump, was on TV this week playing down the whole Stormy Daniels scandal. He kept telling us that while having an affair with a porn star was a sin, sure, but “whether this president violated that commandment or not is totally irrelevant to our support of him.”
It’s a line we’ve heard from many white evangelicals: Trump isn’t perfect. But we elected a president, not a pastor. As long as he delivers on our agenda, he’ll have our support.
But that’s not what Robert Jeffress was saying in 2008 when evangelical Christians were beginning to rally behind Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination. Back then, Jeffress was calling out the hypocrisy of fellow evangelicals for saying all the same things he’s saying right now.
“… some evangelical leaders… for the last eight years of the Bush administration, have been telling us how important it is to have an evangelical Christian in office who reads his Bible every day. And now, suddenly, the same leaders are telling us that a candidate’s faith really isn’t that important. In fact, one of those leaders — a good friend of mine — said on national television, when it came to supporting Mitt Romney, he said, ‘Well, after all, we are not electing a theologian in chief, we are electing a commander in chief.’ My fear is such a sudden U-turn is going to give people a case of voter whiplash. I think people have to decide, and Christian leaders have to decide once and for all, whether a candidate’s faith is really important.”
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… “The danger in all of this discussion is that Christians sometimes are willing to sacrifice the temporal for the eternal, that in order to get their candidate elected, to enact those laws that they feel are crucial, somehow we fool ourselves into thinking we are going to bring about the kingdom of God here on earth. We are not going to do that. I’m not willing to trade people’s eternal destiny for some temporary change in the law.”
Jeffress said in the longer version of that video that Mormonism was a cult, and evangelicals were wrong to back a Mormon for president, even if he was a Republican. What mattered most, Jeffress claimed, was having a faithful Christian in the White House.
Today, when the man in the Oval Office is no role model for anybody, much less a Christian to look up to, Jeffress is one of his loudest champions. He’s all for temporary changes in the law that suit his agenda.
Eternal destiny can wait for another day, I guess.
Keep in mind that Jeffress didn’t give a damn about the president’s faith when Barack Obama was president. His Christianity never counted. But Trump’s faith, somehow, is acceptable to these supposedly pious hypocrites.
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Pastor Robert Jeffress, an evangelical adviser to Donald Trump, was on TV this week playing down the whole Stormy Daniels scandal.
I guess Jeffress has seen the light. I wonder if he still would rail against Mitt Romney, because it's so important to have a Christian (like Donald Trump) in the White House.
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I disagree-- its seems pretty obvious that most Evangelicals don't care about marital infidelity-- their support of Trump is as strong as ever!
Is that Stormy Daniels in the middle?
Yeah, watch the whole clip - it ends in a threesome.
Nope it's one of these Fox news regulars'
like a pure slice of American .......
Hahahahahahaha - I fell right into that one.
It's like looking at a 1980's faberge' shampoo commercial.
Was that threesome all males or was there a female involved as either a dominatrix or golden showers?
I'd like to hear from Christian conservatives what their idea of a faithful Christian is because it certainly seems like their idea of a faithful Christian is an old white man who hates the very same people that they do.
The shame and self loathing of closet cases like The Wrong Reverend Jeffress is evidenced in utter false grace...
Disgusting hypocrite.
Jeffress is a Southern Baptist preacher. No more need be said.
His vestments should be constructed from white sheets.
I think at this point the right wing Chrisrians have abandoned thier religion in favor of politics and thus they should lose thier tax exempt status. No real Christian can possibly support trump...no effing way.
Trump is not a Christian, but he was still a better choice than whore Hillary.
I've never heard that Hillary Clinton prostitutes herself. Deleted C0C [SP]
I think you mean trumps wife...
Case study for why religion needs to stay out of politics. Clearly religion is being used as a manipulative tool for political power. Easy as it gets, and why religion has been used since its inception. Baaaa
So he is lying about being a Christian too? Jesus is there anything he doesn't lie about?
So the john is better than the whore?
Please Hal. It's the lesser of two evils. They were given a choice between a lying criminal who commits adultery and a lying criminal that causes adultery and supports killing babies. They made the right choice.
I'm sorry - did you expect to be taken seriously? I think you're in the wrong place.
This article post is supposed to be serious? Really?
Lol - there are two VIDEOS OF JEFFRESS posted, and they DIRECTLY CONTRADICT ONE ANOTHER. Is that not good enough for a Trump supporter like yourself?
If you expect to be taken seriously you should learn the facts and not TEAparty opinions.
1.) How does any woman cause adultery?
2.) Being pro-choice is not the same as supporting killing babies. Being pro-choice means that she supports personal freedom of allowing each woman that right to make her own decision instead of having it forced on her ban a authoetarian state or a religious belief. an abortion doesn't kill a baby. Its terminstaes a pregnanc,y which at 25 weeks is a fetus that cannot surive outside of the uterus.
And I am pro-choice.
You're blaming Melaria for her husband's adulterous affairs?
If you know someone that is killing babies, please call 911
Wrong window open? 😀
Oops....lol
Happens to the best of us.. LOL
Guys like this are why it is so easy to write Christianity off as being bullshit.
For Christian Evangelicals morality is nothing if not flexible...