“I wonder if President Obama would have attended the funeral of Justice Scalia if it were held in a Mosque?”
— Donald Trump, in a tweet earlier today.
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Quote of the Day
“Listen, that’s between Donald and the pope… I’m not going to get in the middle of that. I’ll leave it to the two of them to work it out.”
— Sen. Ted Cruz, quoted by the Dallas Morning News, on Donald Trump’s dispute with Pope Francis.
Trump Denounces Pope Francis
“In his most audacious attack yet on a revered public figure, Donald Trump veered into risky political territory as he denounced Pope Francis, seeking to galvanize Republicans who worry about border security and appeal to evangelical voters who regard Francis as too liberal,” the New York Times reports.
“Following the pontiff’s remarkable contention that Mr. Trump ‘is not Christian‘ in proposing deportations and a wall with Mexico, the candidate said Francis’s criticisms were ‘disgraceful’ and ‘unbelievable,’ and charged that the Mexican government had hoodwinked the pope into criticizing him.”
Politico: Pope attack could help Trump in South Carolina
Pope Says Trump Is Not Christian
“Inserting himself into the Republican presidential race, Pope Francis suggested that Donald Trump ‘is not Christian’ because of the harshness of his campaign promises to deport more immigrants and force Mexico to pay for a wall along the border,” the New York Times reports.
Said Pope Francis: “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.”
Trump Splits the Evangelicals
A fissure has opened wide among South Carolina evangelicals, the Greenville News reports.
“The cracks began to open in 2012 when a twice-divorced Newt Gingrich won South Carolina, but it’s been ripped wide open by a twice-divorced Trump. As candidates court the roughly 65 percent of GOP voters in the state who count themselves as evangelicals, many of those voters are looking beyond faith to choose their candidate.”
Evangelicals “are split into two camps and the divide has grown… Trump, and to a lesser extent Cruz, have tapped into the ‘populist evangelicals,’ those working-class folks who listen to conservative talk radio, are drawn to mass rallies and hold the idea that motivating great masses of people is the way to achieve political influence… Rubio has garnered the support of the bulk of the GOP evangelical power brokers… ‘cosmopolitan evangelicals,’ the strategy-minded, highly educated evangelicals who are reliant on their connections.”
Trump Says Obama Visited Mosque Because He’s ‘Comfortable’ There
Donald Trump told Fox News that President Obama visited a mosque because “maybe he feels comfortable there.”
Said Trump: “We have a lot of problems in this country. There are a lot of places he can go, and he chose a mosque.”
He added: “That’s his decision. That’s fine.”
Trump Accidentally Put Money on Communion Plate
Washington Post: “Donald Trump has been looking for ways to reach out to evangelical voters before the GOP primaries. On Sunday, the businessman and his wife attended church services at the nondenominational First Christian Church, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. But when the Communion plates were passed, Trump mistook the silver plates for the offertory, digging out several bills from his pocket.”
Said Trump later: “I thought it was for offering.”
Americans Don’t Want an Atheist President
A new Pew Research Center survey finds that “being an atheist remains one of the biggest liabilities that a presidential candidate can have; fully half of American adults say they would be less likely to vote for a hypothetical presidential candidate who does not believe in God, while just 6% say they would be more likely to vote for a nonbeliever.”
That said, many Republicans think Donald Trump would be a good president despite his perceived lack of religiousness among GOP voters.
Bush Doesn’t Think Trump Is a Christian
Jeb Bush said he doesn’t think Donald Trump is a Christian, ABC News reports.
Said Bush: “No, I don’t know what he is. I don’t think he has the kind of relationship he says he has if he can’t explain it any way that shows he is serious about it.”
Of Jerry Falwell Jr.’s endorsement, he added: “For a guy who has stated he has never sought forgiveness, it’s hard to imagine how someone who is a strong believer would embrace that idea. There may be other reasons that Mr Falwell is supporting him.”
Trump Courts Evangelical Voters
Donald Trump called on Christians to “band together” and “unify” at an address to Liberty University students, Politico reports.
Said Trump: “Christianity, it’s under siege. We don’t band together. Other religions, frankly, they’re banding together… we have to unify.”
New York Times: “In dozens of interviews with evangelical voters in 16 states, from every region of the country outside the Northeast, those supporting Mr. Trump sounded a familiar refrain: that his heart was in the right place, that his intentions for the country were pure, that he alone was capable of delivering to a troubled country salvation in the here-and-now.”
Bonus Trump Quote of the Day
“To the best of my knowledge, not too many evangelicals come out of Cuba, okay?”
— Donald Trump, quoted by the New York Times, taking a swipe at Sen. Ted Cruz.
Flake Rejects Religious Intolerance at Mosque
Decrying the ugly “rhetoric” coming from the presidential race, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) delivered a powerful message of solidarity with the congregation of an Arizona mosque, the Arizona Republic reports.
Said Flake: “We are a better country than has been on display this week. My hope and prayer today is that the isolated voices calling for division are overwhelmed by the chorus of voices, like those in this room today, calling for acceptance, for tolerance and inclusion.”
Quote of the Day
“We know that there is a small group, and we don’t know how big that is — it can be anywhere between 5 and 20%, from the people that I speak to — that Islam is their religion and who have a desire for a caliphate and to institute that in any way possible.”
— Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA), quoted by BuzzFeed, suggesting up to 20% of Muslims support terrorism.
Bonus Quote of the Day
“I think this whole notion that somehow we can just say no more Muslims, just ban a whole religion goes against everything we stand for and believe in.”
— Dick Cheney, quoted by the Washington Examiner, on Donald Trump’s call for banning Muslims from entering the United States.
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Rubio Says God’s Rules Win
Sen. Marco Rubio told CBN that religious believers must “ignore” laws that violate their faith.
Said Rubio: “In essence, if we are ever ordered by a government authority to personally violate and sin — violate God’s law and sin — if we’re ordered to stop preaching the Gospel, if we’re ordered to perform a same-sex marriage as someone presiding over it, we are called to ignore that. So when those two come into conflict, God’s rules always win.”
Trump Says U.S. May Have to Shut Down Mosques
Donald Trump says the United States will have “absolutely no choice” but to close down some mosques where “some bad things are happening,” Politico reports.
Said Trump: “Nobody wants to say this and nobody wants to shut down religious institutions or anything, but you know, you understand it. A lot of people understand it. We’re going to have no choice.”
Kasich Proposes Government Agency to Promote Values
“As part of a broad national security plan to defeat ISIS, Republican Presidential candidate John Kasich proposed creating a new government agency to push Judeo-Christian values around the world,” NBC News reports.
“The new agency, which he hasn’t yet named, would promote a Jewish- and Christian-based belief system to four regions of the world: China, Iran, Russia and the Middle East.”
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