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By CRISTIANO LIMA 01/25/2018 05:14 PM EST
Family Research Council president Tony Perkins said Thursday that while evangelicals would not ignore President Donald Trump's past "personal failings," they would conditionally support him so long as he continued to deliver on his promised Christian-friendly agenda.
In a memo to members of his conservative non-profit, Perkins addressed his recent interview with POLITICO Magazine in which he said faith leaders were willing to give Trump a "mulligan" or "do-over" on his behavior if he continued to carry out on his promised policy goals.
The comments, which drew media attention, were interpreted by some as Perkins offering Trump a blank slate on past wrongdoing, including explosive recent claims that he had an extramarital affair with Stephanie Clifford, a porn star who performs under the name Stormy Daniels, while he was married to first lady Melania Trump.
Perkins said in the memo Thursday that allegations of infidelity and sexual misconduct leveled against the president would be "unconscionable" if proven true and that evangelicals would not stand by him if he were to "revert to the behavior of his past."
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haele
(12,700 posts)Because the agenda is more important than being a good, moral person.
Haele
C_U_L8R
(45,040 posts)I just don't understands their theology... and apparently they don't either.
tanyev
(42,677 posts)Hmmm?
Eliot Rosewater
(31,151 posts)allowed to do that trump can have 25 porn mistresses.
Freethinker65
(10,116 posts)Ilsa
(61,717 posts)Matthew 4: 8,9
8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9 All this I will give you, he said, if you will bow down and worship me.
Perkins and Graham and the rest of them seek more power, authority, and financial gain by bowing down to trump.
Vogon_Glory
(9,137 posts)LongTomH
(8,636 posts).....the Anti-Christ deceiving many believers in (gulp) the last days?
I don't know if Tony qualifies as a 'believer;' but, I really think Trump qualifies as an Anti-Christ!!!!!!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,795 posts)That didn't take long.
spanone
(135,950 posts)fuck you tony
you immoral shit.