Trump Tape Forces Deeper Conversations on Evangelical Ethics

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🗓️ 13 October 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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By now, you’ve probably seen the 2005 video of Donald Trump bragging to then–Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush about his aggressive groping and kissing of women. If you’re running for election as a Republican, it may have encouraged you to change your strategy. (Arizona Senator John McCain dropped his endorsement. GOP House Leader Paul Ryan has said he’ll stop campaigning for Trump.) But so far, Trump’s most vocal evangelical supporters—including James Dobson, Eric Metaxas, Tony Perkins, and Jerry Falwell—haven’t wavered in their support. (Read CT’s full report.) “The whole thing is baffling yet predictable,” said Jemar Tisby, the president and co-founder of the Reformed African American Network. While allegations of Trump’s previous sexual attacks on women currently make the news, his campaign won the primary while proposing a ban on Muslims from entering the US and attacking a Mexican-American judge for his heritage, actions indicative of a larger thread in Republican history, said Tisby. “That Donald Trump, out of 16 candidates, would end up being the nominee is on one hand utterly perplexing. On the other hand it doesn’t surprise me in the sense that what he’s playing to what has been present in the GOP for decades,” he said. But will this be true in the future? “I’ve seen a lot of people want to say ‘The Religious Right is finished. They don’t have the clout that they had,’” said Matthew Lee Anderson, the founder of Mere Orthodoxy. “I think that it’s way too premature to say that sort of thing. We do need a couple of election cycles…One of the things that I will watch very carefully will be what happens at Liberty University on November 8.” Tisby and Anderson join Morgan and Christianity Today’s editor-in-chief, Mark Galli, on Quick to Listen this week to discuss what has and has not changed for evangelicals following the latest Trump scandal, how Billy Graham’s political philosophy shaped Christian engagement, and what personal blind spots have been revealed in their own lives over the course of the election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you in part by The Apologetics Guy Show, the podcast that helps you find clear answers to tough questions about Christianity.
0:11.0	Learn to explain your faith with courage and compassion.
0:14.5	Join Moody Bible Institute professor Dr. Mikhail del Rosario at Apologeticsky.com.
0:29.2	Music Michael Del Rosario at Apologetics Guy.com. Hey, this is Morgan Lee. I'm a co-host here at Quick to Listen, and today I have a guest
0:35.1	host with me, Mark Galley, our editor-in-chief.
0:41.4	Good to be with you. I just think our listeners ought to be aware of what you're wearing today,
0:45.2	even though that's politically incorrect for me to say it. It's sackcloth and ashes.
0:49.2	All right. For everyone who doesn't know, guys, at the time of this recording,
0:55.7	we are essentially 12 hours past the time that the Cubs came back against the Giants, leaving me pretty inconsolable.
0:57.4	Yeah, she's fasting for three days, sackcloth and ashes.
0:59.9	It doesn't accord with the company dress code, but I told her supervisor not to be too hard on her
1:04.2	today.
1:04.5	And he did come into my office and offer me a blessing this morning.
1:07.7	And then was like, ha, ha, ha ha the cubs won well thank you mark for you caring about me i guess
1:14.0	if that's the form of care and yes if anyone wants to offer condolences for the giants hit me up on
1:19.7	twitter i am very open to that mark i'm really excited that you're joining us today because as we know
1:24.5	this has been a really interesting week politically and also
1:27.7	with regards to our movement, evangelicals. As almost all of our listeners are aware, last week,
1:33.4	The Washington Post released a video of Donald Trump candidly bragging about aggressive groping
1:38.6	and kissing of women. I'm not sure that some of the language that is used in this video is
1:42.6	appropriate for quick to listen, but the video is widely available online.
1:47.1	And this particular video, which was taped in 2005, has had a significant impact on the GOP political landscape.
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