Tony Perkins: Trump Gets 'a Mulligan' on Life, Stormy Daniels

[DonViejo]

The Family Research Council head says that evangelical conservatives are willing to overlook Trump’s past behavior so long as he delivers for them on policy.

By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE January 23, 2018

Donald Trump is still the answer to many conservative evangelical leaders’ prayers. Or at least to their continuing grievances. They embrace Trump the policymaker, says Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, despite being uneasy about Trump as a man.

Perkins knows about Stormy Daniels, the porn actress who claimed, in a 2011 interview, that in 2006 she had sex with Trump four months after his wife Melania gave birth to their son Barron. He knows of the reports that she was paid off to keep the affair quiet in the waning weeks of the 2016 election. He knows about the cursing, the lewdness and the litany of questionable behavior over the past year of Trump’s life or the 70 that came before it.

“We kind of gave him—‘All right, you get a mulligan. You get a do-over here,’” Perkins told me in an interview for the latest episode of POLITICO’s Off Message podcast.

Weigh a paid-off porn star against being the first president to address the March for Life, and a lot of evangelical leaders insist they can still walk away happy.

Evangelical Christians, says Perkins, “were tired of being kicked around by Barack Obama and his leftists. And I think they are finally glad that there’s somebody on the playground that is willing to punch the bully.”

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[spanone]

1. and Jesus Wept.

[RKP5637]

2. Yep, the majority of them don't give a shit, because they do the same. n/t

[underpants]

3. Psycho

[janterry]

4. Punch the bully? Trump IS the bully

hopefully we'll find someone to stand up to him

[Egnever]

11. Awesome that this "christian" is counseling punching people.

his kind makes a mockery of Christianity.

[tanyev]

5. Hey Tony, how much sweet, sweet Russian money has been flowing into the FRC coffers lately, hmm?

Asking for a friend.

[world wide wally]

6. I guess the lying part doesn't count at all

They say Satan was a great liar too. Something like a "silver tongue devil", I think they called him.

[Solly Mack]

7. Always playing the victim as an excuse to justify their abusive behavior toward others.

Always.

Whiny, obnoxious, odious people all.

I would rather have a raw, bleeding anal sphincter from continuous explosive diarrhea than to be around evangelicals.

Such would be better company and definitely more welcome.

The only regret being I can't flush evangelicals down the toilet.

[Cosmocat]

8. That dastardly Obama

living the life of a true Christian, so offensive to the good christians.

[Blue_Tires]

9. I'm so very happy to see

the religious right "double standard" themselves into irrelevance... It's like they don't think all this shit they're saying on the record can't be used against them later.

[Javaman]

10. you mean this same scumnbag tony perkins?

Conservative Activist Perkins Reportedly Covered Up Sexual Assault Against Teenager

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/11/18/conservative_activist_tony_perkins_reportedly_covered_up_sexual_assault.html

[flotsam]

12. Perkins claims the right to give Mulligans???

I thought that Mulligans were given by the Lord God Almighty and then only when the transgressor humbly admitted the sin and prayed for forgiveness. It seems theology has changed since I left the church...