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In reply to the discussion: Any other former Republican voters here? (My Story) [View all]TSExile
(2,746 posts)...all the pastors I've ever had have been very good about keeping their own personal politics out of the pulpit. As a voracious reader, think I internalized all the fundy, right-wing, misogynistic messages from the books I got from the Christian bookstore. You know, Focus on the Family and that ilk.
I remember the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal all too well. It broke during my senior year of high school and remained in the news well into my first year of college. I was a teenager and certainly wasn't spending a lot of time watching the news, but I well remember the likes of Pat Robertson, James Dobson, etc., calling for Clinton to resign, calling him unfit to serve because of his adultery, etc., etc.
Yet when the infamous Access Hollywood tape dropped, these same supposedly moral religious leaders fell all over themselves to endorse T****. Of course, it only matters if a politician commits sexual atrocities if an R is after his name. That's when the fog was lifted...and I knew to never trust the Religious Right again. Kristin Du Mez's "Jesus and John Wayne" validated every thought I had to that end.