Franklin Graham: Trump’s adultery is “nobody’s business”

Franklin Graham

If you’re looking for a reliable source of pure chutzpah, don’t stray far from evangelical Christians. Here’s preacher Franklin Graham explaining that the country has too many problems to focus on Trump’s infidelity and sleeping with a porn star, which isn’t anyone’s business anyway:

I don't have concern, in a sense, because these things happened many years ago – and there's such bigger problems in front of us as a nation that we need to be dealing with than other things in his life a long time ago. I think some of these things – that's for him and his wife to deal with. I think when the country went after President Clinton, the Republicans, that was a great mistake that should never have happened. And I think this thing with Stormy Daniels and so forth is nobody's business. And we've got other business at hand that we need to deal with.

Let that sink in a moment. These are the people who try to legislate their way into everyone’s bedrooms, who campaign to prevent men and women from marrying whomever they love regardless of gender, who spend more time talking about gay sex than gay people do, who make every effort to strip away women’s reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, and who heap scorn and sanctimony upon anyone who isn’t in a straight-laced, missionary-and-for-procreation-only marriage even as they continually throw their lot in with politicians with more ex-wives and male-prostitute scandals between them than ideological positions.

Yet suddenly, they’re so very concerned with all these people who criticize the president, the evangelicals’ golden calf, for lying nonstop to the country and possibly committing felonies. Really, they should all just get their noses out of Trump’s private life and mind their own business.

Being an evangelical Christian has all but become synonymous with couching naked bigotry and pathological blue-nosing in rank hypocrisy and slapping on a transparent veneer of piousness to deflect accusations about their total moral bankruptcy. And they didn’t even need atheists’ help to get that reputation; they’ve earned it all on their own.

(via Joe.My.God.)