Btw, it’s cool that the president needs an Evangelical Advisory Board.
A Southern Baptist adviser to President Donald Trump says it is “absolutely ludicrous” to call Trump’s evangelical supporters hypocrites for standing by the president amid allegations that he had an adulterous relationship with an adult film star.
“Evangelicals know they are not compromising their beliefs in order to support this great president,” Robert Jeffress, pastor of the 12,000-member First Baptist Church in Dallas, said March 8 on Fox News.
Jeffress predicted a lawsuit by porn star Stormy Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford and who is seeking to void a nondisclosure agreement about their relationship made days before the 2016 election, would do little to erode Trump’s evangelical base.
“Evangelicals still believe in the commandment: Thou shalt not have sex with a porn star,” Jeffress said. “However, whether this president violated that commandment or not is totally irrelevant to our support of him.”
Jeffress, a spiritual adviser to the president who prayed at Trump rallies during his campaign, said evangelicals “knew they weren’t voting for an altar boy” when they cast their ballots in 2016.
“We supported him because of his policies and his strong leadership,” Jeffress said, citing Tuesday’s announcement that Trump will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in May as the latest example.
“Evangelicals understand the concept of sin and forgiveness,” Jeffress said. “We are all sinners. We all need forgiveness. That forgiveness is available through Christ for anyone who asks. Whether the president needs that forgiveness for this particular allegation, whether he’s asked for it, is between him, his family and his God.”
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