Should Evangelical Christians trust the Republican Party?

written by Guest Contributor Dr. Robert Warren November 15, 2017

Not quite a decade ago, grassroots Republicans revolted against the GOP establishment. Through the Tea Party uprising, conservative Republicans took on the “good ole boy” network. Enough of a stir was created that the establishment reacted by trying to first co-opt and then crush the Tea Party. Thanks the IRS and a few bad candidates, the GOP establishment maintained the majority of the Republican insider power during the Obama years.

Roy Moore is a reincarnation of the most powerful ideas of the Tea Party. This is the establishment’s worst nightmare and Mitch McConnell, Jeb Bush, and other establishment political leaders have reacted by treating Moore like a pariah by supporting withering accusations that have come out of nowhere. (The Democrats don’t really have to say a thing because it is the GOP establishment leadership that is doing all the condemnation.)

Moore has portrayed himself quite effectively as a defender of the Christian faith and the Constitution built upon that faith. His campaign is a throwback to a time where American principles, not identity politics constituted the basis for legislative decision making in the Congress. (So far, the media has managed to personalize the Moore “womanizing” situation and avoid attacking the Christian evangelical message he represents. However, there is a nearly a month to go before the special election in Alabama and there are surprises yet to unfold.)

I have to question whether the stop Moore motivation is about behaviors that occurred nearly 4 decades ago or about stopping the Christian and constitutional message he brings. While various opposing phobias and isms have been effective in suppressing dialogue that is viewed as hostile, there are no such phobias and isms available to Christians. The result is that Christians, particularly evangelical Christians, have been mistreated with the consent of far too many political leaders – including those in the Republican Party.

Should evangelical Christians trust the Republican Party establishment? Unfortunately, I don’t see enough words and actions to make the case for the GOP establishment. (I find it bizarre that President Trump has to carry the water for Christians virtually by himself.)

Guest Contributor Dr. Robert Warren

I am the Founder and Past President of the Colonial Area Republican Men’s Association (CARMA) in Williamsburg, VA.

Steven Brodie Tucker

Moore also apparently likes little girls….so. You know, not that Christian.
- Warmac9999
  
  I think you have him confused with the prophet Muhammad who actually did like little girls as young as 9.
  
  By the way, one of the accusers appears to have a major problem. Her yearbook was signed in December not the May/June time normally involved for such signings, but worst of all the handwriting appears to have been written by two different people using two different ballpoint pens. Very sloppy attempt to attack Moore.
  - Rocinante
    
    Take a look at those rushing to indict, act accordingly.
    
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    - Warmac9999
      
      The OLDE is apparently incorrect. It is the OLD Hickory House. Moore says he never visited that restaurant – maybe the name changed but the forger didn’t know it.
- Rocinante
  
  Such a tool.
  - Warmac9999
    
    There is now the possibility that the yearbook was signed by a RAY and not a ROY. And, there was a RAY in the Alabama court system at the time and he was in a nearby DA office. Could this accuser have the wrong guy after 40 years?
    - Rocinante
      
      I thought it could be ‘Kay’ but I’m no TBE psychic channeler.
      
      Kay or Ray rhymes better though.
      - Warmac9999
        
        If you read the yearbook comment as a rhyme, then Ray fits better than Roy. Even more likely that this whole thing is a forgery by a spiteful woman who didn’t like Judge Moore’s divorce decree.
- Jean Baptiste Bellegarde
  
  SBT, didn’t you just get done writing these words in a previous blog post?
  
  “We have got to stop hating people. We have got to stop judging people.”
  
  “If you want progress, then you need to focus on policy and bringing people together…”
  
  I guess we need to just do as you say and not as you do!
- AmyH
  
  Your proof of that?
just a wild & crazy RINO

Herman Cain
Remember
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- just a wild & crazy RINO
  
  http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/11/roy_moore_gets_the_herman_cain_treatment.html
  - just a wild & crazy RINO
    
    It was déjà vu all over again as the Washington Post, who has endorsed his opponent in the Alabama Senate race, brought forth 40-year-old sexual molestation accusations against Judge Roy Moore. From Clarence Thomas, to the Duke lacrosse team, to the University of Virginia rape case, to Herman Cain, we have heard such charges before and the rush to judgment that follows
    
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  - Warmac9999
    
    It appears that Gloria Allred has trapped herself with the yearbook. It is likely that forgery of some kind has taken place and she did not exercise the due diligence required by the law before putting forth “evidence” of wrong doing. Her situation can easily lead to State Bar disciplinary action.
- Warmac9999
  
  The sexual harassment allegation approach seems to be the go to tactic when trying to impugn someone’s integrity.
  
  Had a friend who looked a lot like a Clark Gable lothareo. One day he got on an elevator. There was one woman on board so he said “good morning”. They both worked in same organization but seldom met so he got off at his floor and she proceeded on. A couple of hours later he got a call from personnel to appear before a counselor. When he got there he was told the woman had filed a sexual harassment claim against him. He explained what had transpired and the personnel counselor explained that “she does this all the time”. Nevertheless, it still went on his record.
  
  I find the Moore accusers from 35 to 40 years ago to be unbelievable thus I agree with Warren that the level of animosity directed at Moore by the GOP establishment indicates something else – likely fear of loss of political power which is almost always the motivating factor in these shenanigans.
Bad Medicine

Moore’s nonsense is tragic on its own, but also an injustice to conservatives as a separate matter.

The injustice is that Democrats would happily use the issue to rob conservatives of their rightful majority in the Senate. Yes, rightful, no less a term applies. Were Moore replaced a year ago with another Republican candidate, that candidate would no doubt win the election. Democrats want to use this situation to install a Democratic candidate where one would never actually win an election to effectively disenfranchise conservatives nationally … because … Democrats do that when they can. If conservatives held 90% of Congress and space aliens came down from Orion with the power to give Democrats the power to force their will on everyone, they’d cut a deal to make it happen, because it’s all about power and getting what they want regardless of the collective will of the American voter. Robbing Trump voters of their victory with fake news and impeachment hearings ? .Sure, no problem, Democrats would love to do that, because conservatives and especially Trump voters aren’t actually human beings, they’re just evil, stupid, misogynistic, racists, so it doesn’t matter what you do to them.

You don’t go around white knighting and virtue signalling to others to increase your personal reputation as being honorable and acting on principle when there’s a thug trying to rob you in an alley with a piece of steel pipe in his hand. Yet Republican leaders are happy to stand on “principle” here and let Democrats rob conservative voters of their majority, just to make themselves look like the better man. That’s been a big part of Trump’s appeal … he doesn’t give a crap, he’ll go to the mat with Democrats, even if he does look like a clown doing it.
- Bad Medicine
  
  Conservatives want someone to fight for them like this matters, like their votes matter, like what they want matters.
  - Warmac9999
    
    But the GOPe doesn’t want to fight – and you have to wonder why. Are they simply too beaten down and used to minority status – or are their motives no longer supportive of the Constitution, the rule of law and America first.
    - Jean Baptiste Bellegarde
      
      The GOPe is beholden to globalism and cheap labor. Conservatism is a campaign tool.
      - Warmac9999
        
        Your last sentence is quite telling. You here great conservative speeches to get elected, followed by an anemic respect for the principles espoused.
- AmyH
  
  Moore will still likely win the election despite the slander.
Chad Davis

As an evangelical myself, I am drawn to the pro-life, traditional marriage, and gender is determined by biology platforms of the Republican Party (cue the “bigot go home” cries from the left).

I think it is even more important though to remember Psalm 146 not to put too much faith in earthly leaders who cannot save our souls.

It’s important not to make out politics our idols. A sin of which I admit that I commit.
George

Evangelists brought us the Moore scandal. They were his primary supporters during the primary, and beforehand. You can blame a lot of problems on establishment Republicans, but Moore is not one of them.
- AmyH
  
  The “Moore scandal” was brought by Democrats and the GOPe… I have yet to see one shred of evidence that Moore ever did anything scandal worthy much less illegal or wrong. Unsupported accusations made 40 years later are not believable and stink of the smear job they are.
  - Warmac9999
    
    It appears that the Nelson yearbook signing is some type of forgery. Based on Allred comments, she knows it but will continue to push because she is in jeopardy of State Bar disciplinary action. This will all disappear after the election in Alabama unless Moore decides to sue for deliberate defamation of character.
- Warmac9999
  
  You make Warren’s point about not trusting the Republican establishment. If Moore were anything but a Christian conservative, the GOPe would be silent for fear of being called a nasty name. Christophobia is the word not spoken.
David Dickinson

“Should evangelical Christians trust the Republican Party establishment?”

Absolutely not.

It’s a business relationship and the party should be dealt with shrewdly and with substantial skepticism.

As a voting bloc, however, Christians align much more closely with Rs than Ds (cue DNC presidential convention with Ds booing God) so there isn’t much choice. Politically, the only party that explicitly aligns with Christians is the Constitution Party.
- Warmac9999
  
  If the IRS had not been weaponized against the Tea Party, it is likely that there would be a strong third party if no a complete remake of the GOP. Trump was the reaction to the garbage the Republican swamp creatures were dumping of the American citizenry, particularly conservatives.
  - Rocinante
    
    Nah, tea party is the swamp dividing and conquering. Tea party belongs all in the GOP, not outside of it.
- Edward N Virginia
  
  ABSOLUTELY FALSE. Many serious Christians – not ‘political Christians – align with COMMON SENSE politics. They vote for a candidate of a political party or independent or write in that they find most COMMON SENSUALLY agreeable. A COMMON SENSE politics is NEVER rigidly ideological. Jesus’ story makes that clear: ‘give the money of Caesar’s face on it to Caesar’ but NEVER give your ‘heart’, your ‘spiritual love, hope, trust, etc’ to any worldly authority.
  - David Dickinson
    
    You can’t be a serious Christian and support the Democratic Party of abortion, homosexuality, and hedonism. The Republican Party has its fault of bending the rules for the wealthiest, but that pales in comparison to the wholesale slaughter of innocents.
    - Edward N Virginia
      
      Your idiotic comment is the same as saying
      
      “you can’t be a Christian and be Roman Catholic because of their centuries of child sexual abuse among the RC clergy’
      
      ‘you can’t be a Virginian and support any football team other than the Redskins’
      
      etc
      - David Dickinson
        
        You’d be a Christian in apostasy if you claim that Christianity supports abortion, homosexuality, or hedonism. There are many Christians that do just that, and they are generally congregated in mainline Protestantism.
        
        You can call yourself a ham sandwich but that doesn’t make you one.
      - Edward N Virginia
        
        The doctrinal tenets of Christian theological beliefs – for thousands of years! – is the Nicene Creed. That Creed says nothing directly about ‘abortion’, ‘homsexuality’, ‘hedonism’, ‘women wearing chastity belts’, ‘men having sex with their slaves’, ‘women burned as witches for preaching the Gospel’, etc. Read and believe the Nicene Creed to know and the follow the classical thousands’ years old theology of Christianity.
      - David Dickinson
        
        The Nicene Creed is solid doctrine and correct in all aspects…and then you went off the rails. Are you limiting Christianity to the Nicene Creed? The Creed is based on the Bible, and the entirety of the New Testament forms the basis of Christianity.
        
        Biblical teaching clearly teaches that the only ordained sexuality is that of a heterosexual married man and woman. All else is sin. Abortion is murder and contrary to commandment #7 and a slew of other passages. Hedonism is pretty much the opposite of Christianity.
        I have no idea where you are going with these outbursts. If you want to say you are pro-abortion, homosexuality, whatever you have that right. But these are clearly all sinful in Christianity.
      - Edward N Virginia
        
        INdisputably, the message that Jesus of Nazareth went around Samaria, Judea, and the Galilee saying was announcing ‘the kingdom of God’, ‘healing the sick’, and ‘welcoming sinners’. The announced priority and purpose of the message was to preach good news to sinners.
        
        The priority and purpose of your message is SHUNNING, STIGMATIZING, BULLYING, and THREATENING. FAR FAR FAR from Jesus’ message.
        
        You may style your BULLYING as a Republican message but you may not style it as consonant with Jesus of Nazareth’s message.
      - David Dickinson
        
        Truth is not hate. Acquiescence is not love.
David Dickinson

I openly questioned why our local congresswoman Barbara Comstock came out condemning Moore so quickly. After all, what does it matter to her what happens in a Senate seat in Alabama? It appears that the GOPe response is a coordinated attack against Moore. That is a problem. If GOPe is actively conspiring against non-GOPe candidates, then we have an open war on our hands.
- Warmac9999
  
  Since the Tea Party revolution, the GOPe has been openly trying to suppress conservative America-First ideas. Trump upset their globalist plans to make the USA look like a carbon copy of the UK, France, Germany and much of the EU.
Edward N Virginia

You have made ‘evangelical Christian’ an ‘political identity’ and argue as if it is an ‘ethnic identity’ SHAME on you! That is UTTERLY FOREIGN to the message of the Gospel in the Gospel literature and in the Apostolic letters. SHAME!
- Warmac9999
  
  Evangelical Christian has been made into a political identity by the Democrat Party, and they have done so to ridicule Christians as a whole.
  - Edward N Virginia
    
    BUZZER! WRONG!
    
    Were you not around for The Moral Majority (Lynchburg), CBN (VA Beach), and Richard Viguerie (Manassas) – called the “funding father” of modern conservative strategy.
    
    THESE created ‘evangelical Christians’ as a political/ethnic identity.
    
    SHAME on you for being so ignorant! Or such a liar!
    - Warmac9999
      
      You do realize that your first sentence denies the attacks of the left on freedom of religion, don’t you?
      - Edward N Virginia
        
        ‘the left’ – whatever that is (you appear to mean something by it) – did not create Moral Majority, CBN, Viguerie’s operations.

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