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As a Christian and, later, a minister, I have never spoken or acted like this.

If you think I am now going to condemn Donald Trump, hold that thought in abeyance.

The reward for my moral conduct was to be rejected by women as a desirable suitor, and to be denounced by men as an unvirile male. Significantly, the same females who valued me as a friend and mentor refused to date me; they chose to date - and marry - the Bad Boys of the milieu in which we all lived. (Nota bene: I am speaking of professing Christians.)

Very few men are willing to be ostracized for behaving in a truly Christian manner: Men want to be desired by the opposite sex, and to be respected by their own.

The reality is that all are fallen - women just as much as men - and their choices and actions reflect that.

As a minister, I was privy to cases of rape outside of marriage, and abuse within marriage. My attempts to address these things in a Biblical manner in two different congregations essentially cost me my ministry. I accept that burden - and I would do it all again.

The truth is that, for a lifelong worldly millionaire (now billionaire), Donald Trump, someone constantly exposed to every temptation and capable of indulging them all, he, the honestly divorced teetotaler, the successful free-market entrepreneur, has lived a rather sensible and circumspect life compared to the supposedly Christian past presidents like Kennedy, Clinton, and Bush (yeah, Dubya): men who spent at least their youth indulging themselves with sex and - in most cases - drugs.

I personally am convinced that Bush led a decadent life in his youth, and never truly repented of it in a Christian manner, but merely settled down, which is not repentance.

I consider it an unfortunate sign of the decline of America that each of the last three sitting presidents apparently have used (and may still use) cocaine. It is not only a crime, but it alters, perhaps permanently, brain chemistry. (I consider Soetoro, in particular, not only evil, but insane.)

All this outrage against Trump the Teetotaler is as phony as a three dollar bill.

As a man who has never been drunk, has never used illicit drugs, and has never committed fornication, I am not in the least shocked by what Trump did.

I have seen and heard far worse from some so-called Christians I have personally known.

I have zero hesitation in voting for Trump.