When Wearing a Dark Suit With a Red Tie Outside a New York Court Room Says, "I'm a Hypocrite"

 "I don't find anything unusual about a fundamentalist theocrat who thinks the Bible is the supreme law of the land attending the legal proceedings of an adjudicated sexual assailant and world class fraudster and con-man for cooking the books to to cover up hush money payments he made to a porn star to conceal his adulterous affair.  Do you?"  Maryland Representative Jaime Raskin in The Beast

Do I find it unusual that a fundamentalist theocrat, a conservative, Evangelical Christian, and Republican, is choosing political expediency and partisan loyalty over patriotic American values and over the doctrine, theology and practice of his own Christian faith?  

No. I don't find it unusual. It's typical of the kind of hypocrisy demonstrated by fundamentalist, conservative, Evangelical Christians who are elected to public office. 

But I do find it deplorable.

This particular Speaker of the House is turning out to be the one who typifies the dishonesty, duplicity, and lack of moral character that has become the trademark of both American Evangelical Christianity and of the Republican party and its politics that has moved to completely undermine the Constitution and government of, by and for the people, and replace it with some form of Christian nationalist "theocracy."  I put that in quotes, because there is considerable doubt that what they would come up with would have anything to do with any god, much less the one whom they claim to believe in, and follow, identified by the writers of the sixty-six books of the Protestant Bible.  

Just a few days ago, he survived a challenge by fellow Evangelical Christian Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green to his leadership of the House.  He survived because Democrats refused to support her motion to vacate the speakership.  But instead of acknowledging their support, and thanking them for helping him continue to lead in the direction of those things in House business they both consider important and bi-partisan, he dons a red tie, and shoots over to New York City to support a corrupt former President, who exhibits characteristics and morals that are diametrically opposite of those of the Christian faith, as defined in the Bible he claims to believe is inerrant and infallible, who committed adultery against three wives, marrying, against Biblical precept, two women with whom he committed adultery, who has already been convicted of one sexual assault, out of the thirteen of which he's been accused, who is on trial for a whole list of fradulent acts to cover up an affair he had with a porn star while his third wife was home taking care of their newborn infant.  

The suit and tie he wore that matches Trump's typical dress is screaming out the message, "I am a hypocrite and my actions are deplorable!"  

Trump Has Made a Mockery of Those Evangelical Christians Who Support Him 

Trump has made a point, on multiple occasions, of denying the very core principle of Christian conversion, which is acknowledging the conviction of one's sinful nature conservative Christians claim is taught in the scriptire as having come directly from the Holy Spirit of God himself.  Trump has openly and publicly denied having done anything requiring God's forgiveness, in front of some of the more prominent Evangelical leaders who endorse him in spite of this blasphemous denial.  He brands himself as worldly, indulging in and wearing immorality proudly, as a badge of personal honor.  He claims to have had "hundreds" of affairs with women who, as he proudly declared in the widely played Access Hollywood video, let him "grab them by the pussy" because they can't resist a celebrity.  

His corruption in his business dealings boggles the mind.  The witnesses called to testify in the E. Jean Carroll trial, and in this one, are all people whom he befriended for the purpose of using, gutting their character and integrity in the process, if they had any to begin with, and then are discarded like trash after he gets the benefit of their service.  His character cannot be described by a single word found in any Biblical description of the character that is planted in the soul of someone who experiences the conviction and repentance of Christian conversion, as Evangelical Christians claim to believe.  

Those Evangelical Christians, especially those who are in positions of leadership, find themselves denying the Christian gospel in multiple ways in order to demonstrate their support and loyalty to Trump.  They've come up with some twisted, pseudo-Christian, pseudo-biblical cliches to attempt to justify and excuse their blasphemy, such as "God sometimes uses evil people to accomplish his purposes," which is a back-handed admission that Trump is evil, or the infamous "I'm not electing a pastor in chief, I'm electing a commander in chief," as if the Bible somehow teaches that Christians who are in a position to choose their own national leaders can use their vote to pick someone who doesn't reflect their own moral values, and God's just fine with that.  

That's deplorable.  And there's Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, a self-proclaimed Evangelical Christian, standing outside that New York courthouse sporting a red tie.  Thank you, Speaker Johnson, for telling us all, loud and clear, that you are a hypocrite, who you serve and where your real loyalties lie.  

Hypocrisy?  Well, everything that Evangelical Christian leaders, many of whom are still in leadership, said about President Clinton is still on the record, isn't it?