Interesting choice
An anti-gay, pro-Trump pastor from Dallas will give the opening prayer Monday night at the introduction ceremony of the new US embassy in Jerusalem. Pastor Robert Jeffress, a Fox News contributor and supporter of President Donald Trump, will add to the controversy surrounding the diplomatically awkward event.
Jeffress, who serves as an informal faith adviser to Trump, has maligned most world religions and condemned homosexuality, while on Fox he spouts biblical justifications for Trump’s agenda.
Sounds perfect.
Jeffress, who runs the First Baptist Dallas megachurch in Texas, has referred to both Islam and Mormonism as “a heresy from the pit of hell.” He believes Islam, Mormonism, Hinduism, and Buddhism are all cults, and that Catholicism represents the “genius of Satan.” Jews, he believes, are going to hell. “You can’t be saved by being a Jew,” he’s said.
Hmm maybe not quite perfect. He does know there are quite a few Jews in Israel, yes?
Jeffress also provides religious cover for Trump’s policies and views. On immigration, where other Christian leaders have called for compassion toward immigrants, particularly undocumented people brought here as children, Jeffress has defended Trump. “The Bible also says that God’s the one who established nations and its borders,” Jeffress said on “Fox & Friends” last September. God “is not necessarily an open borders guy.” When Trump said he didn’t want immigrants from “shithole” countries coming to the United States, Jeffress said he disagreed with the president’s “vocabulary” but that Trump was “right on target in his sentiment.”
Yes that’s definitely the important thing about what Trump said – the naughtiness of the word “shit” as opposed to the racist shittiness of the “sentiment.”
So, ok, I take it back, a lot could go wrong.
‘Anti-Semites for Israel’ is a real thing. They see the only functioning democracy in the Middle East as a necessary launching pad for the Apocalypse. They are as crazy as any exterminationist mullah in Iran; or any deranged ‘Greater Israel’ expansionist on the West Bank.