In an article published last October, I asked: “Why are so many evangelicals condoning sexual assault?” I noted that “many evangelicals-especially prominent conservative defenders of family and public morality-side with the powerful oppressors over the vulnerable oppressed. Carter concludes:Īs we have discovered over the past two years, so long as the flawed candidate can be considered the “lesser of two evils” (i.e., not a Democrat), then some evangelicals believe we can vote for them and keep a clean conscience. He begins by discussing the case of Wesley Goodman, a young conservative Evangelical politician who traded on his squeaky-clean Christian image, but who was a predatory homosexual - and lots of people knew about it, but said little or nothing. Joe Carter - a conservative Evangelical - laid down the law last week in a powerful column. “Tremendous moral standards”? Recognize God? These two?! It would be comedy if it weren’t so outrageous. We’ve got to go back to the recognition of God! Kellyanne Conway defends Trump’s endorsement of Roy Moore: “The President has tremendous moral standards… He doesn’t want a liberal democrat representing Alabama in the US Senate” Do we really believe our talent pool will dry up and our caucus will be nonexistent once we kick out all the creepers? I don’t. I know them, I am trying to raise them, and by God’s grace, I try to be one. Maybe Republicans can replace politicians who harass and abuse women with anyone other than an abuser. I don’t put it at all past the Democrats to be tossing Franken overboard because it’s excellent politics heading into 2018, with the Republicans saddled with Donald Trump and quite possibly Roy Moore - two of the politicians most popular with conservative Christians. The Republican Party and the conservative movement, such as it is, will reap what it has sown. I presume that he will resign, given that even Chuck Schumer has declared that it’s time for him to go. Al Franken is going to make a statement today. I’ve been hoping I’d not ever have the moniker of “Franken accuser.”īut she changed her mind. I’ve been hoping he’s a decent enough man not to force his victims to parade in front of the Ethics Committee. I’ve been hoping Franken would just step down and I wouldn’t have to say anything. And Trump, who boasted he could “grab ‘em by the pussy,” being in the White House doesn’t make that untrue. And that original sin lost us the election of what we all assumed would be the first female president of the United States. It’s not just bad men and exhausted women it’s that we chose Bill over the women. But there’s a rot in the Democratic Party. I don’t feel like pummeling her with my privilege of hindsight. I think we all make the choices that seem right at the time. But I’m not condemning or admonishing Hillary. I’m also no longer defending Bill Clinton. Nothing makes that more clear than how women voted in the 2016 election. Their choices don’t seem so ridiculous to me any longer.ĭemocrats sold our soul. The New York Times’s Michelle Goldberg repented of her support for Bill Clinton, writing a piece with a battering ram as a headline, “I believe Juanita.” For me, it’s been sinking in that the working white women who felt condescended to by affluent feminists voted, by significant margins, for an admitted sexual predator over the lady who’d not believe them if they were abused by someone she liked.
This year’s pervert purge has inspired many to look at uncomfortable truths about their heroes, their co-workers, and their values. Maybe, just maybe, it’s only good for the men. What if protecting men who harass and abuse women isn’t actually good for women? I have a radical idea: Maybe Democrats can replace politicians who harass and abuse women with anyone other than an abuser. Here’s a new piece from The Atlantic by Tina Dupuy, a Democratic woman who said that she too was groped by Franken. I truly never thought I’d see the day when the GOP ceded the moral high ground to the Democrats on sexual ethics. So Franken and Conyers are out while the GOP is rallying to and will likely be stuck with Moore. A senior Republican official - a conservative Christian - texted me yesterday to say:
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