David Moorman
10/15/2016
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Check out these "REAL" Christians... Sorry I almost puked... NOT... That TRUMP has decided to be his RELIGIOUS COUNCIL... You will find an array of PROSPERITY PREACHERS, ADULTERS, PEDOPHILES, PREACHES OF HATE against the LGBTQ Community, and Lawyers.
Trump has said he is a FRIEND to the LGBTQ Community but if you take a closer look you will find that this is JUST ONE MORE LIE he has told to try and get as many votes as possible...
This is one of the most ANTI-GAY, HATE filled groups of people ever put together by a Presidential Nominee...
TRUMP IS NOT NOW NOR WILL HE EVER BE A FRIEND OF THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY!!
Michele Bachmann
A former Minnesota congresswoman and champion of the Tea Party, Right Wing Watch notes
that Bachmann’s theological views include arguing that the September 11
terrorist attacks were the result of God judging America, positing that
homosexuality is “part of Satan,” and arguing that those who fight for
LGBT rights are bringing about a Biblical apocalypse. She also believes
that God will repeal the Affordable Care Act, that the recent terrorist attacks in Brussels, Belgium were an instance of God mocking Barack Obama, and that God told her to introduce a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in Minnesota.
A.R. Bernard
An
African American megachurch pastor in New York City, Bernard heads up
the 37,000-member Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn. Bernard was
openly critical of Trump’s spirituality as recently as May, when he
decried prosperity gospel preaching by saying,
“I do not subscribe to the notion that somehow, wealth and spirituality
are tied together because if that was true then someone like Donald
Trump would be considered very spiritual.”
Mark Burns
A surrogate for Trump on the campaign trial, Burns is an African American prosperity gospel preacher.
Asked in November if he thought Trump was racist, Burns responded,
“Mr. Trump is not racist. He’s probably the most least racist person
there is. But he’s got to tone down certain languages that can easily be
interpreted as racial slurs.”
He also declared at a Trump rally that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who identifies as a Jew but who says he is “not very religious,” should convert to Christianity.
“Bernie
Sanders, who doesn’t believe in God,” Burns said. “How in the world are
we going to let Bernie — I mean, really? Listen, Bernie gotta get
saved. He gotta meet Jesus.”
Tim Clinton
Clinton
is president of the 50,000-member American Association of Christian
Counselors, which advises members to “not condone or advocate for the
pursuit of or active involvement in homosexual, bisexual or
transgendered behaviors and lifestyles.” The group amended its code of ethics in 2014
to advise against so-called “ex-gay” conversion therapy, instructing
counselors to encourage LGBT people to remain celibate instead.
Kenneth and Gloria Copeland
As co-founders of Kenneth Copeland Ministries, the Copelands are widely recognized as prosperity gospel preachers. After Kenneth Copeland hosted then-presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on their television program in 2008 and allowed the former governor to hold a fundraiser using his facilities, their organization’s tax-exempt status was subjected to a federal investigation by the Senate Finance Committee, then chaired by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA). Five other churches were also investigated during that time, but the probe was dropped in 2011 because Kenneth Copeland and other ministers refused to work with officials.
The couple was also criticized in 2015
by comedian Jon Oliver on his show Last Week Tonight with Jon Oliver,
when he chastised them for, among other things, using church money to
purchase a $20 million jet. Other evangelicals such as Russell Moore
have referred to the couple as “heretics,” saying their theology is exploitative.
Kenneth Copeland, founder of Kenneth Copeland Ministries, has conflated being gay with “murder” and “stealing.”
Kenneth Copeland’s presence on the board is also somewhat unexpected, as he proclaimed in February that God had anointed Sen. Ted Cruz to be the next president.
James Dobson
Author and host of My Family Talk, Dobson has been at the center of several controversies. But his most inflammatory remarks arguably came in 2012, when Dobson declared that the tragic shooting of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School was the result of God’s judgment — a divine punishment supposedly enacted against the United States because some of its citizens are atheists, have abortions, and embrace same-sex marriage.
“I
mean millions of people have decided that God doesn’t exist, or he’s
irrelevant to me and we have killed fifty-four million babies and the
institution of marriage is right on the verge of a complete
redefinition,” he said, speaking of the mass shooting. “…I am going to
give you my honest opinion: I think we have turned our back on the
Scripture and on God Almighty and I think he has allowed judgment to
fall upon us.”
Jerry Falwell, Jr.
President of Liberty University, an evangelical Christian school, Falwell is the son of famous evangelist Jerry Falwell. A vocal supporter of Trump since he endorsed the businessman earlier this year, Falwell — who is not an ordained minister — stoked controversy in December when he threatened to pull a gun out of his pocket during a school assembly to make a point about how he would kill the terrorists who enacted the San Bernardino shooting in California.
“I’ve
always thought that if more good people had concealed-carry permits,
then we could end those Muslims before they walked in and killed them,”
he said.
“If some of those people in that community center had what I have in my
back pocket right now… Is it illegal to pull it out? I don’t know. I
just wanted to take this opportunity to encourage all of you to get your
permit. We offer a free course … Let’s teach them a lesson if they ever
show up here.”
A member of Liberty University’s board of trustees resigned earlier in May
over Falwell’s endorsement of Trump, saying The Donald’s incendiary
campaign does not reflect “Christ-like behavior that Liberty has spent
40 years promoting with its students.”
Falwell Jr. supports a "Don't Ask - Don't Tell" approach to LGBTQ issues at Liberty University.
Ronnie Floyd
The pastor of Cross Church in Springdale, Arkansas, Floyd is the author of several books, including The Gay Agenda, in which he argues that homosexuality is not a biological sexual orientation, but “an idea.”
Jentezen Franklin
Franklin
is the senior pastor of two Free Chapel megachurches: a 16,000 person
one in Gainesville, Georgia, and another in Irvine, California. Every
Sunday he reportedly delivers his morning sermon in Georgia, boards a private jet, and flies to California to deliver his second sermon at his west coast campus.
Jack Graham
The
senior pastor of 40,000-member Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano,
Texas — one of the largest churches in the United States — Graham also
served two terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Graham
and his church were dogged by controversy in 2013 after administrators
removed comments from the congregation Facebook page asking about an
incident in 1989 when a staffer was dismissed over rumors of child
sexual abuse. The staffer left to become a music minister in
Mississippi, where he was later arrested and convicted of child sex abuse.
Graham rebuked the accusations of mishandling the scandal in a sermon, saying Jesus also didn’t answer false accusers.
Harry Jackson
Pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland, Jackson has been an outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage. He once opened a Religious Right rally
by describing LGBT supporters as “The Enemy” who want the “seed” of
marriage equality to be “planted in this generation that corrupts,
perverts and pollutes generations to come.”
Robert Jeffress
Pastor
of the Texas megachurch First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, Jeffress
has been an outspoken supporter of Trump for months. He warned that
there would be a “boycott” of the Republican Party if the GOP refused to nominate the businessman as their nominee at the convention, and warned that Christians who refuse to vote for him are “selfish” and “prideful.”
He has claimed homosexuality leads to pedophilia and been a vocal opponent of same-sex marriage, declaring
that legalizing it “will pave the way for the way for that future world
dictator, the Antichrist, to persecute and martyr Christians without
any repercussions whatsoever.” He is also vocally anti-Catholic, saying
in 2010, “Much of what you see in the Catholic Church today doesn’t
come from God’s Word, it comes from that cult-like, pagan religion …
isn’t that the genius of Satan?”
David Jeremiah
Pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church in in a suburb of San Diego, California, Jeremiah also runs a radio program called Turning Point. He has criticized the prosperity theology preached by other members of Trump’s board, writing in 2012,
“as a basis for theology, [the prosperity gospel] is far from the good
news of the gospel that Jesus preached … The picture of Jesus painted by
prosperity preachers bears little resemblance to the Jesus of the New
Testament.” [Don't Forget Homosexuality Destroys Normal Family Relationships]
Richard Land
Former
head of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern
Baptist Convention (the denomination’s political arm), Land has made a
career working at the intersection of religion and politics.
Although an
opponent of LGBT equality, Land once praised President Barack Obama’s plan for immigration reform, slamming Republicans who dismissed it as “amnesty.” He has also repeatedly condemned Islamophobia and attacks on American mosques as violations of religious freedom.
Land’s presence on the board is especially surprising given that he blasted Trump
in Charisma News as recently as May, calling him a “scam” and warning
voters “it must be said, before it is too late, that whatever the
problems may be, Donald Trump is not the answer.”
“I
fear that the millions of Americans who are putting their trust in Mr.
Trump will be bitterly disillusioned if he were to obtain the nation’s
highest office,” he said.
By mid-June, however, he was already urging evangelicals to support Trump, arguing that presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is a “greater evil.”
James MacDonald
Pastor
of the six-campus Harvest Bible Chapel, MacDonald faced minor
controversy in 2013 for disciplining three church elders who spoke out
against a “culture of fear and intimidation” at the church and
bemoaning how it handles money (as of 2014, it reportedly owed $56.8
million in construction costs).
"In the coming years, evangelical institutions could be pressed to
sacrifice their sacred beliefs about marriage and sexuality in order to
accommodate whatever demands the culture and law require."
In January, MacDonald wrote
about the ongoing controversy regarding Trump’s visit to Liberty
University, but refused to make a firm statement on Trump himself,
saying, “As a pastor, I don’t endorse candidates.”
Johnnie Moore
Author
and national spokesman for My Faith Votes, which helped organize
Trump’s evangelical summit, Moore is also on the board of the National
Association of Evangelicals. He has been conciliatory to Trump’s
campaign for some time: Although Protestant, he criticized Pope Francis
in February after the pontiff implied that Donald Trump is not a
Christian for wanting to erect a larger wall between Mexico and the
United States to keep out immigrants.
“No
one is supporting Trump because of his Christianity,” Moore said at the
time. “They are supporting him because they think he can fix
America — and now he even has the Pope talking about it.”
Robert Morris
Pastor of the 35,000-member Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, Morris. He refers to bloggers who criticize him as people on “Satan’s hit list,” and once claimed that his prayers can help infertile women bear children.
Tom Mullins
Pastor
of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida-based megachurch Christ Fellowship,
which has a successful television ministry that reaches millions. An
avowed conservative, Mullins is a fan of Glenn Beck, telling the then-FOX television show host in 2010, “Glenn, I’m convinced that God is using you.”
Ralph Reed
A
longtime fixture of the Religious Right and head of the influential
Faith and Freedom Coalition (whose conference Trump spoke at earlier
this month), Reed is a stalwart opponent of LGBT equality. He opposed
laws protecting LGBT people in the 1990s, saying,
“No one should have special rights or privileges or minority status
because of their sexual behavior.” More recently, his organization
called for the federal government to stop offering grants to the National Cathedral
in Washington, DC, arguing that the church’s support for marriage
equality — now the official position of the Episcopal Church, the
congregation’s parent denomination — disqualifies it from government
funds, writing, “Taxpayers are being asked to subsidize gay marriage
ceremonies.”
Reed has been apologetic about Trump’s infamous difficulties with religion, saying, “You don’t need to quote scripture, just come and be yourself.”
James Robison
Founder
of LIFE Outreach International, Robison is a well-known televangelist
turned political advocate, gathering with Richard Land and other
leaders — many of whom are part of Trump’s board — in 2010 to sketch out a plan to replace Barack Obama in 2012 election. He has been public about his support for Trump in the past, arguing that the businessman could save America from hell.
" Robison said that “homosexuality, sodomy, sexual impurity” are “almost too repulsive to imagine and to attempt to describe."
Robison has also been critical of prosperity theology, saying the message distorts the concept of giving.
Tony Suarez
An
executive Vice-President of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership
Conference (NHCLC), Suarez represents America’s growing population
Hispanic evangelicals. Suarez was deeply critical of Trump throughout
his campaign, posting a Facebook message in January that called the
businessman “embarrassing” before saying “the only thing more
embarrassing is watching preachers support Trump and even manipulate
scripture to invent false prophecies regarding Trump.” Earlier in June,
Suarez called Trump’s rhetoric — especially his comments on
immigrants — polarizing and alienating [to] the Latino electorate.
Suarez told the Huffington Post that joining the board was not
synonymous with supporting Trump, but that he saw
it “as a positive step, if only for providing him and others a chance
to urge Trump to think and talk differently about certain issues.”
Suarez’s
presence on the board is notable not just for his own accolades, but
also for who he effectively replaces: Sammy Rodriguez, the head of the
NHCLC, is notably absent from the list. Rodriguez has worked to court
Republican candidates in the past — especially former Florida Gov. Jeb
Bush — but has been more hesitant about Trump, noting
that he is “Actually very opposed to [Trump’s] rhetoric on most
issues … At the top of the list, his rhetoric on immigrants, on
immigration, is unacceptable.”
“We’ve preached to our people that everyone — every race, every culture,
every orientation — they’re made in the image of God,” said the Rev.
Tony Suarez, executive vice president of the leadership group, in a
phone interview. “That doesn’t always mean we agree with everyone’s
decision, but we respect their humanity.”
Jay Strack
Evangelist
and founder of Student Leadership University, a faith-based
leadership-training program that helps young evangelical leaders develop
their “Christian worldview.”
Paula White
A
highly successful prosperity gospel preacher, White has operated as a
surrogate for Trump on the campaign trail and, according to Mike
Huckabee, as one of Trump’s direct spiritual advisors. Pastor of senior pastor of New Destiny Christian Center in Florida, she spoke
at a 10,000 person rally in Orlando in support of Trump, saying he
“needs to be our next president” and recounting when she gave him a
Bible signed by evangelist Billy Graham.
"Don't forget this woman has been married THREE TIMES and is against GAY MARRIAGE... So much for the sanctity of Marriage in the Church"
She even supported Trump while he was considering a presidential run in 2012, gathering 40 pastors to meet with him.
Tom Winters and Sealy Yates
Attorneys at Winters and King, Inc. and Yates and Yates respectively, Winters and Yates are both literary agents, giants in the lucrative world of evangelical Christian publishing. The two represent leaders such as Joel Osteen (who worked with Winters), pastor of the largest church in the United Sates and arguably the most famous prosperity gospel preacher in the world.
People need to wake up and see that the TRUMP campaign is Packed full of LIES, DECEPTION, RELIGIOUS HERITICS, Money HUNGRY EVANGELICALS and LOTS OF HATE...
Careful what you wish for AMERICA you just might GET IT...
Blessings and Peace,
David
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