Posted on 07/09/2018 5:57:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
For millions of evangelical Christians, President Trump’s announcement Monday night was the vision they held in their heads as they stepped into the polling booth almost two years ago: a Republican president, filling the Supreme Court with more conservative justices who might drastically curtail access to legal abortion and advance other conservative Christian priorities.
As Trump prepared to announce his second nominee to the court in his 18-month term, these conservative Christians saw much of their dream realized.
“It’s a generational decision,” exulted Jack Graham, a Texas pastor who is on Trump’s informal evangelical advisory board. “It’s a decision that impacts not only today, not only us, but our children — our grandchildren, potentially.”
Many evangelical pastors and activists said they would be pleased with any of the names reported to be on Trump’s shortlist for the nomination. After all, that was the gambit that won Trump so many evangelical votes in 2016: He made the unusual move of releasing, before he was even president, a list of judges he would consider for the Supreme Court if elected. And evangelicals liked what they saw....
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I thought Ruthie made herself irrelevant when she told other countries not to look to our Constitution when trying to set one up for themselves because “it’s old”......
Hooray.
I feel a lot better since your post.
Make sure Ancient Aliens gets a synopsis. I think extraterrestrials may have been involved.
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