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spanone

(135,636 posts)
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 10:36 PM Jan 2017

CNN Exclusive: Inflammatory pastor scheduled to preach to Trump before inauguration



(CNN)A pastor with a long history of inflammatory remarks about Muslims, Mormons, Catholics and gays is scheduled to preach at a private service for President-elect Trump and his family on Friday, shortly before Trump takes the oath of office.

The pastor, the Rev. Robert Jeffress, is a Southern Baptist who vigorously campaigned for Trump during the final months of the presidential election and is a member of his evangelical advisory board. "I love this guy!" Trump has said of Jeffress. Before the campaign, Trump, a Presbyterian, had no apparent connection to the pastor, who leads First Baptist Church in Dallas.

Friday morning's worship service, scheduled to be held at St. John's Episcopal Church across the street from the White House, will continue a modern Inauguration Day ritual. With the exception of Richard Nixon in 1973, every president since Franklin Roosevelt has attended spiritual services on Inauguration Day, many at St. John's. The event is separate from both the inauguration itself and an interfaith service to be held Saturday at Washington National Cathedral, where an imam is among those who will offer prayers.

Usually the Inauguration Day service draws little notice, much less controversy. But offering Jeffress such a prominent pulpit is likely to irk religious minorities, particularly Muslims, many of whom were already angered by the President-elect's stoking of suspicions about Islam during the campaign.


http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/19/politics/trump-jeffress-pastor/index.html
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CNN Exclusive: Inflammatory pastor scheduled to preach to Trump before inauguration (Original Post) spanone Jan 2017 OP
Jeffrey's is a sickening human being democrank Jan 2017 #1
Evil attracts evil. dalton99a Jan 2017 #3
Should Trump and the Rethugs succeed in shredding the social safety net Vogon_Glory Jan 2017 #2
THAT ahat? underpants Jan 2017 #4

Vogon_Glory

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2. Should Trump and the Rethugs succeed in shredding the social safety net
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 10:51 PM
Jan 2017

preachers like Jeffress will be remembered as Psalm-spouting, Bible-waving pastors who stayed silent while Republican politicians set loose the financial wolves to prey on their flocks of believers. That's not a legacy to look forward to.

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