Trump’s White House is open
to hear some parts of the Bible, but no biblical condemnation of sex of men
with men
By Julio Severo
A confusion arising from media misinformation
on a biblical view of an evangelical minister on homosexual sins sparked a
furious condemnation from the White House against his alleged evangelical view
contrary to homosexuality.
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| Ralph Drollinger |
Media reports said that the evangelical
minister, Ralph Drollinger, blamed homosexuality for the coronavirus epidemic.
For example, the DailyMail
headline said, “Minister who leads weekly bible study for Donald Trump's
cabinet members condemns those with ‘a proclivity towards lesbianism and
homosexuality’ as well as ‘environmentalists’ but blames China for unleashing
God’s wrath during coronavirus crisis.”
Even the conservative media had initially an
interpretation not much different. WND (WorldNetDaily) had a report
headlined “Trump Cabinet Bible leader blames coronavirus on God’s ‘wrath.’”
In answer to these reports, White House
spokesman Judd Deere, who is a homosexual activist, called the evangelical
minister’s stance “disgusting” and “not something the president believes.”
Later, in a
report headlined “Trump Cabinet Bible leader sets media straight on ‘God’s
wrath,’ president’s faith” WND said:
Drollinger told WND in an interview he
actually was reacting to some Bible teachers making that claim, “trying to get
out in front of the story” with a careful analysis of Scriptures that came to
the opposite conclusion.
At the weekly meeting – which of late has
been a conference call due to the coronavirus restrictions — Drollinger said
one Cabinet member asked: “Well, how does it feel to be ripped out of context?
Welcome to the club.”
Among the regular attenders are Vice
President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Housing and Human
Services Secretary Ben Carson, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, Education
Secretary Betsy DeVoss, Secretary Alex Acosta and the head of the Office of
Management and Budget, Russell Vought.
Drollinger, the founder of Capitol
Ministries, which provides Bible teaching, evangelism and discipleship to
political leaders across the nation, said his intent with the discussion of
God's wrath was to prepare the Cabinet members “for what inevitably is going to
hit.”
Drollinger, a professional basketball
player-turned-minister who hosts Bible studies for most of the top Republicans in the Trump administration, mentioned idolatry
of homosexuality and environmentalism when explaining God’s judgment in the
coronavirus crisis.
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| Sponsors of Ralph Drollinger and his Bible study in the White House |
In materials Drollinger prepared for his Bible studies for the
week of March 23, he gave evidence of the existence of God’s wrath, in which
God abandons lost causes — including environmentalists who “serve the
creature rather than the creator” and those with a “proclivity toward
lesbianism and homosexuality.”
His Bible study material is entitled “Is
God Judging America Today?”
Drollinger did not connect homosexuality
to coronavirus, but because his Bible study in the White House had a mention of
homosexuality and coronavirus, the Big Media, which is dominated by rabid
homosexualists, hysterically connected both subjects and promoted their own hysterical
interpretation.
To get things worse, the White House spokesman,
driven by his own hysterical gay activism, jumped automatically to the same
malicious interpretation.
Why does a “conservative” president need a
gay spokesman at the White House to jump to hysterical interpretations? While George
Washington expelled homosexuals from the government, Obama and now Trump
welcome them.
Washington did not allow any homosexual in
the government. Why did Obama allow? Why does Trump allow?
But the hysterical interpretation of the White
House spokesman was telling. He thinks that any Bible interpretation that
homosexuality brings consequence is “disgusting.” So does he think that God
condemning homosexuality is also “disgusting”? Actually, the contrary is true.
In the Bible, God says that homosexuality is disgusting:
“You shall not lie with a male as with a
woman; it is an abomination.” (Leviticus 18:22 ESV)
Other versions say “disgusting.”
Would the White House gay spokesman say
that it was “disgusting” God destroying Sodom because of homosexuality?
Drollinger seems to be free to give Bible
studies in the White House provided that such studies do not contradict certain
moral (and immoral) stances of Trump. He is not allowed to teach about how God
condemns homosexual sins.
Washington, who believed in the Bible, would
see as very disgusting the White House under Trump having a gay activist to
condemn evangelical ministers based solely on biased reports from a left-wing
media that worship sodomy with all their hearts and minds.
Washington also would see as very disgusting
Judd Deere saying that “not something the president believes,” suggesting that
Trump does not accept biblical condemnation of homosexuality and no consequence
for this sin.
I do not think that it would be a surprise
a gay spokesman in the Obama White House. It would not be a surprise a gay
spokesman in the Obama White House saying that evangelical views on
homosexuality are “disgusting” and that “not something President Obama believes.”
So what has really changed under Trump?
During the 8 years of the Obama administration,
I exposed and criticized such left-wing stances, and now I am seeing the same
left-wing stances in the Trump administration. But while I saw multitudes of
evangelical ministers in the Obama era criticizing him, now I see multitudes of
evangelical ministers silent for the same sins in the Trump administration.
I am not surprised when I see left-wing
presidents doing left-wing things. But I am surprised when I see right-wing
presidents doing left-wing things. And I am much more surprised when I see
evangelical ministers silent about such things.
Americans talk so much about the
Constitution, but it does not defend homosexuality and abortion. In fact, the
Founding Fathers who drafted the Constitution saw the Bible as God’s Constitution,
the divine Constitution above all human constitutions. No one of them supported
homosexuality and abortion.
There is another thing where Trump and
Obama are similar. When Obama asked national prayers for the United States, he
never asked Americans to repent from their sins. Similarly, when Trump asks national
prayers for the United States, he never asks Americans to repent from their
sins.
Both behaviors are very different from
George Washington and other old U.S. presidents. When they asked national
prayers for the United States, they always asked Americans to fast and repent
from their sins.
Washington, the first U.S. president, expelled
homosexuals from his administration, because he was serious about sins and repentance.
Why does not Trump have such seriousness?
Yet, how can Trump ask Americans to repent
from homosexuality and other sins if they refuse to see these sins as
disgusting? How can they repent from sins if they do not feel the dirty weight
of such sins? How can they condemn sins and repent from them if they refuse to
accept God’s condemnation of homosexuality and other sins
Traditionally, casinos are places of
corruption, dirty money, drugs and prostitution — both female and male. Casino
owners see no evil in homosexuality.
Casino owners see no need to repent from
anything. This is why in national days of prayer in the U.S., Trump, who is a
casino owner, has never done what George Washington always did: to repent and
ask the American people to repent from their sins.
In fact, in the last national prayer, Trump
inaugurated a totally different National Day of Prayer: He invited leaders
of non-Christian and anti-Christians religions also to lead prayers! Washington
never did it. Instead of a National Day of Prayer, with fasting and repentance,
just as Washington did, Trump inaugurated a National Day of Apostasy, with leaders
of non-Christian and anti-Christians religions praying to their gods, spirits
and demons to “bless” America. Their prayers are disgusting to God. Their
prayers and mantras are reputed as curses by God.
There are so many evangelical ministers
around Trump, often telling him what he wants to hear, that it seems that
people forget that Trump is the owner of a network of casinos. So is it any
wonder Trump’s hard time to condemn homosexuality, even though he has a
Presbyterian background? Is it any wonder that the Trump
administration is promoting homosexuality around the world?
He is just doing what any casino owner would
do. Sadly, it is what Obama would do too.
Understand Trump’s predicament. If he
repents from his sins, he will transform his casinos in decent workplaces and
decent hotels — free from corruption, dirty money, drugs, prostitution and
homosexuality. Would he be willing to do such repentance? Would he be willing
to extend such repentance to his administration and nation?
Only if he has a real encounter with
Christ.
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