so lemme see if i got this straight: if you're part of the religious right,

[unblock]

the sin of teh gay is so so bad you can't even bake a cake for them

but you can vote for president someone who lies relentlessly; commits adultery; pays people to lie for him; tramples on the meek; steals and cons and grifts to line his own pocket; routinely commits, let's see, sloth, anger, glutt... ok *all* of the seven deadly sins...

... and doesn't even fake interest in church.


ok.

so.

question:

if you're part of the religious right, is it ok to bake a cake for donnie?

if yes, what is it about the sin of teh gay that bars cake while donnie's sins don't?

[flying_wahini]

1. Yes, the evangelical right is falling all over Donnie cuz you know 'abortions'

They pretend they are on the side of religion. It has NOTHING to do with it.

They are too stupid to even know how wrong they are.

[Leith]

6. Even though they can't point to a passage

that prohibits abortion in either the new or old testament.

I really gotta stop trying to find intelligence and logic in holy roller spew.

[jmowreader]

33. There's only one thing in the Bible about abortion...

...and that’s the step-by-step directions for doing one in the Book of Numbers.

They rely on two passages to justify their beliefs: the “before I formed you in the womb I knew you” line in Jeremiah (ignoring that it applies only to the Prophet Jeremiah) or the “thou shalt not kill” line in the Ten Commandments (ignoring not only that the Old Testament is full of killing, but that Leviticus 20 gives you a list of everyone you’re ordered to kill and the reasons for killing them).

[OliverQ]

34. The always quote "thou shalt not murder."

They view that as a sufficient argument against abortion.

[Sewa]

8. At work last week

Coworker A said to coworker B “ why do you support Trump he’s anti union”. Coworker B replied “ the other side grinds up and suck babies out of the womb. So there’s that “. As he turned and walked away.

[soldierant]

35. Typical RWNJ logic.

If we're grinding them up, where do we get the baby parts that we're (supposed to be) selling?

[stopbush]

2. It's all about Two Corinthians.

And the racism. Don’t forget the racism.

[lunatica]

3. You got it.

If it’s in the Bible it’s all OK.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. It's all selective to them

If they (don't) like something, they can find some reason to justify whatever they do/say. Trump/Pence delivers their agenda, they'll continue to support him.

[Aristus]

5. You're asking if people with no higher cognitive faculties can feel cognitive

dissonance.

Answer: no.

[Raster]

19. Ding!

[Maven]

7. It was never about morality for them

It was always about patriarchal white supremacy

[demigoddess]

22. +100

white people christianity. Steal, kill, commit adultery, starve children. All this is okay, just as long as you are proud of your white skin. How pathetic.

[AirmensMom]

9. They are taught to yield to a higher power.

What that means is that they are expressly forbidden to think on their own. They believe that their mega-preachers have a direct line to God and what they say is considered the only answer. They attend Bible colleges instead of accredited universities because they are afraid of losing their faith. These colleges reinforce the brainwashing.

We are related to a bunch of them. I can't stand to even talk with them, but my husband manages because they're his siblings. They really don't like Trump, but their preachers told them that if they vote for a Democrat, they will go to hell because of abortion. They are absolutely terrified of hell more than anything else. There is no way to change them or reason with them.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

10. "They are absolutely terrified of hell more than anything else."

They're creating hell on Earth.

[AirmensMom]

11. I totally agree with you.

But there is absolutely no talking with them.

I was brought up similarly, but somehow broke away. I'm no longer afraid of hell because we're living it.

[Brainfodder]

12. Bless their hearts

Since their brains, I'll need proven proof!

[TheBlackAdder]

13. I still don't know if Trump is totally binary. Sometimes I get the impression he is, other times not

[paulkienitz]

14. The "religious right" is not a faith movement, it's a fascist one.

Religion is not the reason, it's the excuse. The actual agenda is to keep traditional rural "real American" culture in a position of privileged supremacy over other cultures. Christianity as a marker of cultural privilege matters -- Christianity as a practice of faith does not.

[keithbvadu2]

15. Political Christians rather than Christians of faith.

[bobbieinok]

16. Religious Right sees only 2 real sins---abortion and homosexuality. Murder, adultery, etc are nothin

[progressoid]

17. Yep. Adultery as a sin went away when Swaggart, Haggard, Bakker, etc got caught.

[unblock]

25. exactly. this seems to be the bottom line.

to them, there *is* something vastly worse about homosexuality and abortion than any other sin mentioned in the bible.

i have no idea what it's supposed to be. abortion, i kinda get that they think it's murder, and certainly murder is indeed a very bad sin. i guess there, they think a fetus is the only form of human that is free of sin. well, i suppose, a fetus must have original sin, but it didn't do anything voluntarily wrong. of course, the instant a fetus is born and becomes and actual human, they don't give a crap about it. i guess that first screaming gasp for air must be a sin in their books, so doing all sorts of things to endanger its life from that point on is no big deal.

certainly not as big a deal as loving someone with genitals shaped other than in the biblically-prescribed way. that somehow is way worse than stealing or even taking the lord's name in vain, etc.

[zaj]

18. The promise to roll back to...

... white, Christian male power.

It's called reactionary. We need to stop being confused by it and start fixing it.

Link to tweet

[OMGWTF]

20. Ask them "What if the fetus you're trying to save is gay?"

[KY_EnviroGuy]

24. Or, a psychopath like tRump.

Excellent point you have made, will remember.......

[unblock]

26. lol! yeah, and can i bake a cake for a fetus?

[JGug1]

21. donnie's sins

That needs to be posted where the nut job "Christians" can read it.

[mgardener]

23. You forgot

Sexually assaulting women.

[unblock]

27. not sure they figure that's a sin.

i mean, rape is all over the bible.

besides, i couldn't possibly make the list of his sins exhaustive.

ain't nobody got time for that!

[NCLefty]

28. Trump DOES fake an interest in the church. He does it badly, but that can be forgiven.

Anyway, if gay people wanted the church to treat them better, they should've helped put an anti-abortion nut on SCOTUS. Pay-for-pray.

[unblock]

31. does he ever go to church?

he feigns a belief in christianity, but i've never heard of him even going to church.

[Mc Mike]

29. That's just fear. They're scared to death to get between Rump and a cake.

[defacto7]

30. Don't even try to apply logic.Their dogma requires

faith in the illogical.

[Martin Eden]

32. There was a very appropriate cake for donnie

It was a cake baked with a special ingredient in the movie The Help.

[KentuckyWoman]

36. Truth is

If Trump were to come out as gay, with a secret Kenyan lover.... white evangelicals would still claim he is chosen by gawd to save America from Democracy.

[Beartracks]

37. But first, they'd have to realize all those things are not fake news.

The greatest trick the right ever played was convincing voters that right-wing evils were the fault of the left.

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[dustyscamp]

38. They are only Christians on the outside