Donald Trump, Christian "hypocrisy" and transgender theology
Leftists need to stop pointing at Donald Trump any time someone objects to open sexual perversion, and argue their theology on its merits instead.
"Christian Nationalists" are criticizing the economic and political analysis of men pretending to be women, and that is a terrible thing, according to this X account. It is such hypocrisy to criticize this and yet vote for "serial adulterer" Donald Trump!
First, it is dishonest to describe every critic of transgender theology as a "Christian Nationalist." Some of folks who objected to The Dispatch (a "conservative" publication) hiring a man pretending to be a woman explicitly reject Christian Nationalism. CN is a small movement, but it is portrayed as bigger than it is by Leftists pretending that every Christian conservative (including people who have been saying the same thing for 30 years) are part of a movement that has only begun to gain attention online over the last five years.
Second, Trump got nominated with a plurality of the vote in 2016, defeating a much more conservative alternative. At that point, and for the next three general elections after that, it was a binary choice. Do we vote for Trump, or do we vote for Clinton/Biden/Harris? Sometimes we are faced with a general election choice that is not ideal, and we always vote for candidates we disagree with.
I have been voting in general elections since 1995. Of all of the races on my ballot - for township, city, county, state and federal office, and school board, I have voted for a candidate I agree with 100% of the time exactly three times. Each time, I voted for myself. Even then, I knew I was voting for a personally flawed candidate, because I know myself. We do not live in a black and white world. We have to make the best choices we can given the options on the table.
We should also not forget that, on balance, Trump's policies have been far more good than bad. (From a conservative perspective.) Not perfect, obviously, but Trump has been pushing back against Leftist cultural advance in a way that many conservatives would not have imagined twenty years ago. Sometimes our policy allies come in strange forms. Remember, Trump criticized Mike Pence for the Religious Freedom Restoration Act after he selected Pence to be his running mate in 2016.
But there is another important context: Trump's adultery with a porn star and a Playboy model was twenty years ago. Trump is not openly identifying as "polyamorous" today or being praised for his "bravery" in "coming out" as polyamorous. These other men are claiming to be "women" and are engaged in sexual rebellion right now. Timing actually does matter.
Furthermore, while adultery is certainly wicked, adultery does not reject the very nature of sex itself, nor does it reject the God-given sex each person was given in the womb. Adultery does not reject science and basic biological reality the way transgender theology does.
And no, I did not vote for Trump in 2016 or 2024. I do not repent, regret or apologize for that. I am not a partisan Trump voter trying to justify my vote for Trump.
Pointing to Trump's adultery is the same game the Left has been playing for generations: That the "hypocrisy" of some Christian leaders (Trump is not a Christian, of course, nor is he a hypocrite on sexual identity) invalidates the entire theology or ideology. It is tiresome, and it does not work any more. Of course there will be people who fail and fall. That does not invalidate the standard. In the case of Trump, it is not even a standard he failed to meet. This is not a case of apples and oranges: It is raisins and watermelons.
