So it has come out that Donald Trump made some boorish comments in a locker room eleven years ago about a married woman he was trying to have an affair with. This is indeed a sad day and everyone knew with an ego the size of Manhattan that Trump, as with most powerful men, would find beautiful women something to be pursued and conquered. I don’t see him as much different than many other highly successful billionaire moguls such as Roger Ailes in recent news. If that is your personality type, you probably shouldn’t be running for President even if you have turned away and repented of such behavior because character does matter (well, not so much with Democrats as Bill Clinton has proven) and you will be held to a far higher standard than others. What you did ten or twenty years ago does matter because it will come out even if private, and the expectation is that you will conduct yourself the same in private as you do in public. The real person is the person who acts when no one is looking. And thus the October surprise, timed just two days before the second presidential debate and a little over four weeks before the election. It can’t get much worse than this.
All this being said, let’s not forget there is solid evidence his opponent’s husband raped women while in the governorship of Arkansas, and it is further reported that he forced himself on women while President. And of course, he disgraced the Oval Office by having sex with a young, impressionable intern. His wife, who is now running for President threatened, demeaned, and savaged the women who came forward to say he forced himself on them while in high public office. In my view, that is far, far worse than what Donald Trump said in a moment of braggadocio in private in a sweaty locker room with some other equally egotistical mogul. Hillary Clinton is a woman who also exposed our country’s national secrets to terrorists and foreign governments in a brazen attempt to get around the federal freedom of information law. Clearly she had much to hide.
As much as it pains me, I’m still voting for Trump since one to three Supreme Court appointments will be made and I certainly don’t want Hillary Clinton making those picks. For those who have not been following California Senate Bill 1146 just signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown last week, the bill in its original form was a brazen attempt by the California state legislature to strip moral codes from Christian institutions of higher learning by making it easy for LGBTQ students to sue for discrimination, and to hurt these schools by withholding funds from needy students that would choose to attend a Christian university. In effect, the intent of the bill in its original form was to have Christian schools sued out of business and to also be choked out of business since they would lose lower income students that would no longer be able to use state funds to attend their schools. Because of public outcry it was amended until the most heinous provisions were removed, but the bill’s sponsor, Ricardo Lara, has vowed to fight on next legislative session. If Hillary wins, with just one Supreme Court pick your 1st Amendment protection of freedom of speech and freedom of religion will effectively come to an end, led by California. There will be a flood of lawsuits winding their way to the Supreme Court that will virtually silence the church in America.
In conclusion I want to note how the word “redemption” springs to mind with respect to this sordid affair. Just a couple of weeks ago, Hillary Clinton said that half of Donald Trump supporters are “deplorable” and “irredeemable.” With a total voter base of about 130 million people, that’s about 32.5 million people that she wishes to govern but has insulted with little apology. Now we all know that her Christianity is at best questionable, as none of her statements or policies display an ounce of Christian love or character. She says these people are “irredeemable”, but the Bible says God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. And that includes Donald Trump. We don’t know what is in his heart, and if he has turned away from his behavior of eleven years ago since starting a family with Melania Trump, he should be lauded. But of course, you have those who live in the gutter and have little belief in redemption or Christian charity and so they bring this old matter up to destroy a man who is trying to do a good thing today, despite what he may have done in his past. Surely, they will have their reward.
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