The right wing is consistent. Whether you are a Republican politician, a Republican voter, or a member of the Christian religious right, you alter your facts to support your current purpose. For example, when Trump threatened Republican politicians with removing his support in the 2018 election if they did not vote in favor of his destructive “tax reform,” they surrendered. They accepted an increase in the deficit of $1.8 trillion, although they denounced President Obama for eight years because his recovery plan would increase the national debt. This is the perfect definition of ‘hypocrisy.’

The most egregious example of right wing hypocrisy has been brazenly offered by evangelicals. One of the leaders of these faux-Christians is Franklin Graham, the son of well-known Christian minister, Billy Graham.

“Private conduct does have public consequences,” Graham wrote in a 1998 Wall Street Journal op-ed titled, “Clinton’s Sins Aren’t Private.”

“[T]he God of the Bible says that what one does in private does matter. Mr. Clinton’s months-long extramarital sexual behavior in the Oval Office now concerns him and the rest of the world, not just his immediate family. If he will lie to or mislead his wife and daughter, those with whom he is most intimate, what will prevent him from doing the same to the American public?”

However, Graham has given Donald Trump a free pass because he is a Republican who is owned by the Christian religious right.

When Franklin Graham was asked about the allegations of 19 women that Trump sexually assaulted them, his own admission that he is a sexual predator captured on tape, or his suspected many affairs during his three marriages, including with porn star, Stormy Daniels, this was his response.

“These things happened many years ago – and there’s such bigger problems in front of us as a nation that we need to be dealing with than other things in his life a long time ago. I think some of these things – that’s for him and his wife to deal with. I think when the country went after President Clinton – the Republicans – that was a great mistake that should never have happened. And I think this thing with Stormy Daniels and so forth is nobody’s business.”

Once again, my friends; this is hypocrisy at its highest level, and this is fake Christianity for the sake of convenience and political advantage.

I have nothing else to say.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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