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The Patriot Post Digest 7-27-2018
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For decades, Republicans at all levels of government gave campaign lip service to the hopes of Christians around the country only to turn their backs on those same voters once in office. Why, then, continue to elect these well-meaning but mild-mannered choirboys? Instead, why not throw in behind a serial philanderer who’s delivering the strongest pro-life message in our history and seating a conservative Supreme Court that will defend religious liberty for the next generation?
And just how has Trump backed up his rhetoric? Ralph Reed, head of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, recently stated30 that Trump, in contrast to Hillary Clinton, “was strongly pro-life and released a list of conservative judges from whom he promised to select Antonin Scalia’s replacement.” Moreover, Reed continued, “He pledged to defund Planned Parenthood, move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, end the harassment of churches by the IRS, withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal and defend religious freedom. He has kept every one of those promises.”
Evangelical Christians now sense a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to advance the principles and values of Christianity that are today being attacked from multiple angles. As a result, they’re willing to overlook the moral failings in their president’s personal life.
But it’s not only the leftist push against Christian traditions, mores, and values here at home that’s driving support for the president. It’s the broader objective of saving all people of faith from oppression in other parts of the world.
The Washington Free Beacon’s Susan Crabtree writes31, “[Former U.S. Senator and Kansas Governor] Sam Brownback, who serves as the ambassador at large for religious freedom at the State Department, pledged a new U.S. government commitment to halting the persecution of religious minorities around the world and called on other countries to join the campaign.”
Some 80 countries sent representatives to the summit where Brownback spoke this week about worldwide religious persecution, particularly against Christians, and the need to spread the ideals of religious liberty beyond American borders. At the summit, Brownback asserted, “Religious freedom really, truly is for everyone. It’s a right given by God, and your presence is an encouragement to people of faith around the world that someone cares about their plight.” He added, “Unfortunately, a large majority of the world live in countries where the freedom to practice their own faith is extremely limited … and in some cases deadly.”
Moreover, Vice President Mike Pence spoke Thursday about religious liberty32, which he called the “first freedom of everyone in the world.” He rousingly addressed threats to religious liberty in China, North Korea, Iran, Turkey, Europe, Nicaragua, and even here at home. And Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a declaration33 calling on governments around the world to defend that liberty. The document states, “Religious freedom is a far-reaching, universal, and profound human right that all peoples and nations of good will must defend around the globe.”
It should be no surprise that evangelicals continue to support a president who has delivered more than they ever could have imagined. Her childhood Methodist background notwithstanding, a President Hillary Clinton would have dealt a crushing blow to any hope of restoring (or even limiting the damage to) Judeo-Christian values in our country.
In the end, evangelicals are not the narrow-minded Bible-thumpers the media wants us to believe. They’re actually politically astute, and they know a winner when they see one. And in the minds of Christians across the country, President Trump has been a champion for the values and principles they believe in.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57385-evangelicals-stick-with-the-defender-of-religious-liberty
MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST
Eminent Domain and Protection for Private Property34 — Congress is finally moving to undo the Supreme Court’s damage in the Kelo ruling.
Americans’ Love the First Amendment… Sometimes35 — The average citizen’s ignorance of protected rights under the First Amendment is inexcusably high.
California: The Land of Topsy-Turvy36 — Where straw-law transgressors are punished more severely than abortionists who traffic baby parts.
Trump Takes on Erdogan’s Regime37 — Standing strong for a detained American pastor; yanking F-35s until further notice.
Video: Do the Rich Pay Their Fair Share?38 — Will Witt took to the streets to ask people what they think.
OPINION IN BRIEF
David Harsanyi: “Socialists like to blame every inequity, the actions of every greedy criminal, every downturn and every social ill on the injustice of capitalism. But none of them admit that capitalism has been the most effective way to eliminate poverty in history. Today, in former socialist states like India, there have been big reductions in poverty thanks to increased capitalism. In China, where communism sadly still deprives more than a billion people of their basic rights, hundreds of millions benefit from a system that is slowly shedding socialism. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the extreme poverty rate in the world has been cut in half. And it didn’t happen because Southeast Asians were raising the minimum wage. In the United States, only 5 percent of people are even aware that poverty has fallen in the world, according to the Gapminder Foundation, which is almost certainly in part due to the left’s obsession with ‘inequality’ and normalization of ‘socialism.’ Nearly half of American millennials would rather live in a socialist society than in a capitalist one, according to a YouGov poll. That said, only 71 percent of those asked were able to properly identify either. … If all you really champion are some higher taxes and more generous social welfare, stop associating yourself with a philosophy that usually brings destitution and death.”
SHORT CUTS
Braying Jenny: “I think [Trump’s] dangerous. I don’t know why people take it. I think Americans should be out in the streets screaming to the top of their voice. Do something. Make something happen. … I think that this man does not deserve to be the president of the United States. He is one of the most deplorable people I’ve ever encountered in my life.” —Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)
Seriously? “Really, for any other president, a tape like this, on which we hear his voice, his married voice, suggesting that his lawyer pay a Playboy bunny $150,000 in cash to keep her quiet — for any other president, there would be an address to the nation tonight.” —Jimmy Kimmel (“Bill Clinton, of course, lied under oath about using a 22-year-old White House intern as his own personal humidor, has been credibly accused of multiple incidents of sexual misconduct, and, despite all that, still enjoys a career in the political mainstream.” —The Daily Wire)
Dezinformatsiya: “The president sees that his numbers are waning. He cannot be this dictator that he’s trying to be at this moment. … Putin has got Donald Trump big pimping — big pimping Donald Trump right now. Donald Trump thinks he can do whatever he wants to the world and this nation, and it’s not happening.” —CNN political analyst April Ryan
Non Compos Mentis: “Global News reports that the [Toronto] gunman committed suicide. If so, this is an important clue suggesting [the assailant] was not an ISIS-inspired attacker. As … others have explained, suicide is a big no-no for jihadists.” —The New York Times’ Rukmini Callimachi (Yes, which explains why they commit suicide all the time.)
Non Compos Mentis II: “The damage that has been done to these children [at the border] will be lifelong, to the families units as well. And in fact, I suggest they need to be compensated for what this administration did to them. To have these children ripped apart and separated is one of the most reprehensible things I’ve witnessed in my 20 years of service here in the House of Representatives.” —Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY)
And last… “How did we destroy jobs and reputations before Twitter? I mean ‘we’ in the sense of faceless, howling mobs distributed around the country. We couldn’t! Why, kids today have fast, easy access to vindictive mobs; when I was growing up, if a famous person said something bad, the most you could do was write a letter to Time magazine.” —James Lileks
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57382-friday-short-cuts
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