“I am the LORD thy God… Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” – Exodus 20:2-3
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” – 2nd Chronicles 7:14
WorldNetDaily reports: Michael Brown says, “As a GOP voter for as long as I can remember, I’m not discouraging you from voting Republican. Not in the least. As a two-time Trump voter, I won’t discourage you from voting for Trump. That is not my intent, as I personally plan to continue to vote GOP. Instead, I’m urging each of you Christian conservatives who will vote for Trump and the GOP to do so with your eyes wide open, recognizing that the GOP is not God’s party and Trump is not the Jesus-centered leader of the Christian right. Far from it.
In 2016, a featured speaker at the RNC was the gay billionaire Peter Thiel, a personal friend of Trump, who said, “Of course, every American has a unique identity. I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. Most of all, I am proud to be an American.” (He said this to applause.)
He added, “I don’t pretend to agree with every plank in our party’s platform, but fake culture wars only distract us from our economic decline. Nobody in the race is honest about it, except Donald Trump.”
That was 2016.
Today, Republicans like Thiel don’t need to worry about differing with the party platform. All affirmation of God-ordained marriage has been removed from the GOP platform along with all opposition to same-sex “marriage.”
That’s why the headline to an op-ed on Newsweek by Brad Polumbo proclaimed, “Trump’s New GOP Platform Is a Massive Win for LGBT Americans.”
He wrote, “For years, a key goal of gay Republicans and their allies has been the removal of the GOP’s anti-gay-marriage plank from its official platform. While Trump made history as the first president to take office accepting gay marriage, the Republican platform he formally ran on in 2016 had explicitly endorsed ‘traditional marriage and family, based on marriage between one man and one woman’ and it specifically denounced the Supreme Court cases enshrining gay marriage as law of the land. In 2020, Republicans essentially recycled the 2016 platform and ran on it again, rather than produce a new one, citing the pandemic’s disruptions.”
In stark contrast, in the 2024 platform Republicans released, this language is nowhere to be found. Their document says nothing about gay marriage at all. There’s no endorsement of ‘traditional marriage’ and no call to overturn the Supreme Court’s decisions or anything else. The absence of a formal position implies that Republican candidates are free to adopt their own position on the issue, a statement that the GOP has no problem with candidates or politicians who, like Trump, embrace gay marriage.
How important is this? Polumbo writes, “It’s hard to overstate the significance of this development. Overnight, with almost no fanfare, the single biggest objective of gay Republicans was achieved – and no one really noticed! So far, there’s been only minor outcry in niche conservative circles, with nowhere near the level of backlash you would have expected had the GOP taken this step in years past.”
It’s the same with the GOP’s pro-life platform plank. That has virtually evaporated into thin air.
As the headline to an op-ed for National Review stated, “The GOP Platform Is a Major Loss for the Pro-Life Movement.”
As explained by Alexandra DeSanctis, “For decades, the Republican Party platform invoked the unborn child’s fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed and called for a constitutional amendment and for legislation ‘to make clear that the 14th Amendment’s protections apply to babies in the womb.’
No longer. In a much-truncated platform, the GOP has gutted its language regarding abortion. Now, it no longer mentions the fundamental right to life of the unborn, instead stating blandly that ‘we proudly stand for families and Life.'”
Trump has stated explicitly that he would not support a federal ban on abortion.
There is no ambiguity here.
As for his views on same-sex “marriage,” he already stated on CBS’ “60 Minutes” on Nov. 13, 2016, that, “It’s law. It was settled in the Supreme Court. I mean, it’s done.”
And despite his strong stance against transgender activism, Trump had said in 2016 that Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner could use the bathroom of his choice in Trump Tower, which he proceeded to do several days later. And, yes, he chose to use the women’s restroom.
Truth be told, despite Trump’s frequent professions of faith (most recently, at a TPUSA Summit, saying, “I love you, Christians. I’m a Christian”) and despite saying the sinner’s prayer privately with different Christian leaders (I heard this anecdotally), there is no evidence that Trump understands what it means to be Christian, let alone “born-again”. (As for Trump being a changed man after coming within an inch of his life, he jokingly said the change lasted for a few hours at most.)
That doesn’t mean that Christians should not vote for him or for the GOP in general. Not at all. What are the real alternatives? The Biden-Harris proposals to radically revamp the Supreme Court should alone draw our serious opposition.
I also believe that we should be deeply appreciative for the great things Trump did as president, including appointing many fine judges to the courts, notably the Supreme Court, standing for religious freedoms, moving our embassy to Israel’s Holy Capital of Jerusalem and successfully negotiating the Abraham Accords.
I’m simply saying we should vote with our eyes wide open, not misrepresenting or exalting Trump, not sanitizing the GOP, and, above all, not looking to politics to do what only the Gospel can do.”… (Continue reading)
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