I doubt this means they are voting for Clinton, but I saw a CNN interview with Falwell where he said more or less...

I doubt this means they are voting for Clinton, but I saw a CNN interview with Falwell where he said more or less exactly what's quoted in the article. The critical point is that he stated what I have heard few Trump supporters openly state: they want the Supreme Court. If they get that, almost everything else they want follows without opposition or risk of being overturned as unconstitutional.

I guess some people have qualms about making deals with almost anything or anyone just to get what they want.

"Donald Trump of five, ten years ago, even two or three years ago may have been a different person," Falwell Jr. said. "The bigger point is he is going to appoint the right justices to the Supreme Court. He's going to control immigration. He's going to bring our country back to a position of strength again. And that is why I'm supporting Donald Trump."

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/liberty-university-students-break-with-jerry-falwell-over-trump-support
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/liberty-university-students-break-with-jerry-falwell-over-trump-support

Comments

  1. John NovakOctober 13, 2016 at 7:46 AM

    "So, Jer, I have to ask given all that you've said: What in that line of reasoning would protect you from voting for the Anti-Christ himself?"

    ReplyDelete
  2. F-L SilverOctober 13, 2016 at 7:59 AM

    Not a thing.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Will FrankOctober 13, 2016 at 8:01 AM

    His conviction that the Antichrist would appoint liberal justices.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Jeffrey HuoOctober 13, 2016 at 9:32 AM

    To defeat one's enemy one has to tactically understand their thought processes. And so if you put yourself in a the shoes of a true Dominonist (like Falwell), the total destruction of the world is not the worst possible outcome. After all, in the apocalypse of Revelation the worthy will go home to Jesus, and who cares about the rest? To a Dominionist, the worst possible outcome to them is the persistence of a "fallen" world that permits anathema like marriage equality.

    So if a Dominonist's choice is between a President who will certainly not select SCOTUS justices to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges and Roe v. Wade (Sec. Clinton, or for that matter, Johnson or Stein), or even an ungodly President who might select SCOTUS justices that will (Trump), the choice to a true Dominionist is clear. God can use the ungodly to smite the ungodly, after all. Even if that President (Trump) might literally cause the world to die in nuclear fire over a temper tantrum. Better Sodom be burned in fire and the worthy receive their reward, than for Sodom to persist.

    Naturally, opinions differ among Christians (like, say, me), but Falwell's not being inconsistent with his (radical) beliefs. He just has a totally different view of what constitutes "acceptable damage".

    ReplyDelete
  5. F-L SilverOctober 13, 2016 at 12:45 PM

    Hm, TIL. Definitely going to be some interesting discussions on that campus.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog