Christianity Today

Well, it took 18 hours, but Christian leaders are now beginning to decry Mark Galli, the editorial writer for Christianity Today who so strongly wrote the article saying that Donald Trump needs to be removed from office. Franklin Graham, the son of Billy Graham, the founder of Christianity Today, says that his father would not have agreed with that editorial. Other Christian Evangelical leaders have now echoed somethng similar, rallying to their president and decrying one of their own.

They would rather believe their lying president than a truth-teller among their own ranks.

But for 12 to 18 wonderful hours, it was good to see the Radical Right so gloriously bitch-slapped by the truth.

The impeachment vote from the House of Representatives last Wednesday did not sting Trump all that much. Trump knows Mitch McConnell will do whatever he says, regardless of moral code, regardless of Constitutional duty. Just ask Merrick Garland. But the editorial from Christianity Today certainly stung. Trump knows where his power base lies. He knows the radical Christians are his strongest supporters. He also knows that as long as he appoints hyper-conservative judges who are dedicated to putting prayer back in public schools, putting crosses back on public land, and overturning Roe v. Wade, he is utterly safe from any, and I mean ANY, wrongdoing.

But sometimes, even his strongest supporters balk. It's that bad. In the case of Christianity Today, the editor cited the lessons learned during the Clinton impeachment, when conservatives said over and over again that moral integrity matters, and that it was important to stand for ethical behavior. Christianity Today's editors, or at least one of them, have decided that it is wrong to side with an immoral person to achieve moral ends.

In other words, the ends do not justify the means anymore.

My take on all this? It was worth it. The impeachment shenanagins (and by shenanagins I mean those on the Republican side), the lies (again, one-sided on the Right), the grandstanding by professional conservatives on repeating long-since debunked falsehoods, they were all worth the seemingly endless toil just to have this one, small editorial that so deeply stung the president, and forced the FoxNews zombies to look at reality - for fucking once.


Even if it were all fake, it would have been worth it.

But, of course, it wasn't.


Eric

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