Beto O’Rourke and Jesus
A small miracle has happened in Texas. It just might be that evangelical women are awaking from a self-induced coma over abortion.
Beto O’Rourke may have touched their hearts. The New York Times interviewed a small group of these women who were willing to to go public.
The women, who are all in their 30s, described Mr. O’Rourke as providing a stark moral contrast to Mr. Trump, whose policies and behavior they see as fundamentally anti-Christian, especially separating immigrant children from their parents at the border, banning many Muslim refugees and disrespecting women.
“I care as much about babies at the border as I do about babies in the womb,” said Tess Clarke, one of Ms. Mooney’s friends, confessing that she was “mortified” at how she used to vote, because she had only considered abortion policy. “We’ve been asleep. Now, we’ve woke up.”
Stunning, right? And then one of the women reported …
When an older white evangelical man recently told her that she couldn’t be a Christian and vote for Mr. O’Rourke, Ms. Clarke was outraged.
“I keep going back to who Jesus was when he walked on earth,” she said. “This is about proximity to people in pain.”
So maybe, just maybe, some evangelical women have truly found Jesus.
Can I get a hallelujah?
1When any “Christian” tells me what I should believe, I simply look them in the eye and say that one of life’s great pleasures is that I get to utterly ignore them and their mythology!
2Perhaps the Christofascists would benefit from a brief history of Mike Pence and John Kasich, who as governors increased the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) at a phenomenal rate while increasing the need for abortions because of their short sighted policies that closed family planning and women’s health care clinics. Has syphilis been eradicated? Of course not. Now there are penicillin resistant strains due to a lack of education and awareness by the all too st00pid. Or, look at the Palin family. How’s that abstinence only thingy working out for them?
3Hurricane Michael is a very major Cat 4 with 145mph sustained winds (much higher in higher in gusts), and strengthening*.
Makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle this afternoon, then cuts across the whole SE US (cyclone is 4-500 miles wide); going offshore into the Atlantic as a still strong cyclone, with probable restrengthening once in the open ocean again.
This is a massively destructive storm, following Hurricane Florence over some of the same terrain. But don’t even think of ‘climate change’.
Wonder what all those Talibangelical hypocrites (like Pat Robertson) have to be thinking about ‘divine retribution’ now. Talk about ‘finding Jeezus’…
I’m just glad it didn’t take a tighter turn to the right as some of my kids/grdkds are in mid-FL’s west coast.
* The early NHC, et al., forecasts for this storm had it progged as developing to a minimal Cat 1 at best. So even they had it wrong to begin with.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/?atlc
4Sorry, I’m not holding my breath waiting for any of these people learning anything.
5PS: By Monday-Tuesday of next week, Hurricane Michael, by then just a massive (sub/ex tropical) storm, will be slamming southern Ireland/UK/England and NE France. It will probably go down as one of those ‘retired due to severity’ storm names.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/152003.shtml?cone#contents
6I am heartened and truly grateful that Christian women are finally seeing past all the sham, and recognizing that the GOP’s policies are inhumane and decidedly unchristian.
And I certainly credit Beto’s skill, passion, and commitment in helping sway their opinions.
But I must add; it doesn’t hurt one little bit that Mr. O’Rourke is extremely easy on the eyes.
Just sayin’.
7Yeah.
The 45 supporting Christian misogynists, back in the day they called them Pharisees. And we know how Jesus felt about them…
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