New Poll Shows 48% White Evangelicals Would Support Kavanaugh Even If He Assaulted Ford

[TLK Valentine]

It was her dog whistle moment.

Sorry, you're still not making any sense. What dog whistle?

 

[Gigimo]

Support for a candidate who tells them that America is their country, too?

She does seem to like mob rule so I can imagine some people would like that.

 

[Gigimo]

Can you provide that resource? If I’m remembering correctly that was Republicans in general.

He got about 7 million fewer votes the second time around so you have to wonder who else it struck as being odd?

 

[camille70]

National Council of Churches calls for Kavanaugh's nomination to be withdrawn

 

[Speedwell]

It was her dog whistle moment.

At the time I thought it was rude and uncalled for. Lately though, after listening to all the paranoid nonsense about a Soros-funded, Clinton-led conspiracy to destroy all that is good about America and replace it with an atheistic socialist dictatorship emanating from the Right, I begin to wonder if she wasn't on to something.

 

[Gigimo]

Her ability to speak in complete sentences?

When she's blaming Republicans for her problems that's true but when it comes to her policies it's heavy use of the teleprompter and a bunch of "er's, um's and ah's" to fill in the blanks.

 

[redleghunter]

National Council of Churches calls for Kavanaugh's nomination to be withdrawn

No surprise there. What started out as an ecumenical movement in the early 20th century is now a SJW chartered organization.

 

[Speedwell]

No surprise there. What started out as an ecumenical movement in the early 20th century is now a SJW chartered organization.

Lol! What group do the Christian patriots belong to?

 

[redleghunter]

Lol! What group do the Christian patriots belong to?

Was not a wisecrack. Just what that organization has become.

But what is interesting? This may just be the first no endorsement by a church organization in any SCOTUS nomination. And this thread is about conservative white evangelicals.

Therefore in this case it is the Christian Left getting involved in politics .

 

[Shiloh Raven]

If he did it, Then he's lying about it. So he would be still sinning. But my guess is most Conservative Christians don't care much about rape. They would be more outraged if he was gay .

You know, I read something similar to this statement just the other day that was written by a non-Christian. He also said he wasn't surprised so many evangelical Christians would support Kavanaugh since the majority of them support Donald Trump. I can't say what else this person said because the rest of his message was much more unkind and very critical of evangelical conservatives.

 

[TLK Valentine]

She does seem to like mob rule so I can imagine some people would like that.

Supporting non-Christians = "Mob rule"? Not sure where you're going with this.

 

[camille70]

Was not a wisecrack. Just what that organization has become.

But what is interesting? This may just be the first no endorsement by a church organization in any SCOTUS nomination. And this thread is about conservative white evangelicals.

Therefore in this case it is the Christian Left getting involved in politics .

I'm just quoting this because I'm shocked that someone on this forum said there are Christians on the left. Seriously, I'm amazed.

 

[redleghunter]

I'm just quoting this because I'm shocked that someone on this forum said there are Christians on the left. Seriously, I'm amazed.

There is a proud Christian Left. They even have a website.

Home

Could not find the Christian Right website.

 

[Speedwell]

I'm just quoting this because I'm shocked that someone on this forum said there are Christians on the left. Seriously, I'm amazed.

That's because this is a moderated forum. Otherwise you'd hear something different.

 

[Speedwell]

There is a proud Christian Left. They even have a website.

Home

Could not find the Christian Right website.

Try googling "Southern Baptist Convention" or "League of the South."

 

[redleghunter]

Try googling "Southern Baptist Convention" or "League of the South."

Heard of the SBC not the other.

Yet that would be someone’s interpretation of a right leaning organization. When we actually have an organization named the Christian Left.

 

[Speedwell]

Heard of the SBC not the other.

Yet that would be someone’s interpretation of a right leaning organization. When we actually have an organization named the Christian Left.

Never heard of them before. Do you know if they'e very big? I think, as with "Christian Right," "Christian Left" is more of an informal, ad hoc kind of descriptor. When I lived in the Bible Belt we were called "Bible-hating, Christ denying commies."

 

[KCfromNC]

When she's blaming Republicans for her problems that's true but when it comes to her policies it's heavy use of the teleprompter and a bunch of "er's, um's and ah's" to fill in the blanks.

Which still makes her far superior to the candidate who failed to get a majority of the votes.

 

[Speedwell]

You know, I read something similar to this statement just the other day that was written by a non-Christian. He also said he wasn't surprised so many evangelical Christians would support Kavanaugh since the majority of them support Donald Trump. I can't say what else this person said because the rest of his message was much more unkind and very critical of evangelical conservatives.

Look at it from my side:

The Trump administration is attempting to shape the courts to empower the agenda of his base--not just SCOTUS but the lower courts as well.

Who is Trump's base? Polling analysis of the 2016 election indicates that the best correlation for a Trump vote was not a stance on any particular issue (abortion, gay marriage, gun control, etc.) but the belief that the US is, or should be, a Christian nation. In particular, a right-wing Evangelical Protestant Christian nation.

There is no future for me or people like me in such a nation. I've lived in the Bible Belt; I know full well what it would mean if the whole country was run along those lines.

 

[TLK Valentine]

There is no future for me or people like me in such a nation. I've lived in the Bible Belt; I know full well what it would mean if the whole country was run along those lines.

Indeed -- I've had some non-Christian friends move to the Bible Belt... funny how it was only after their Pagan beliefs became known that they tires were slashed, their windows broken, and their cat poisoned...