El Trumpo has been bragging about how he’s meeting with 1,000 Evangelical leaders today, but one dude isn’t pleased with what he heard out of the toupee’d loudmouth, and he made his own sign to protest it:
FINALLY!!! We found the ONE Christian guy who is actually standing up to Trump on Biblical grounds instead of acquiescing for the sake of power.
Yahoo News explains who Eric Teetsel is:
Eric Teetsel had intended to stand outside Donald Trump’s meeting with evangelical leaders Tuesday and talk with attendees he knew about why he thought the gathering was a bad idea.
But when Teetsel, a 32-year-old evangelical political activist who was Sen. Marco Rubio’s faith adviser during the Florida Republican’s presidential campaign, arrived at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, he felt compelled to do something more to speak out against Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
… He used a red marker in his bag to write out a message for attendees, spectators and reporters gathered: “Torture is not pro-life. Racism is not pro-life. Misogyny is not pro-life. Murdering the children of terrorists is not pro-life.”
Teetsel included a Scripture verse, Proverbs 29:2, at the bottom, which says, “When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.”
He stood outside on Broadway, a former presidential campaign adviser holding a handwritten sign denouncing his own party’s presidential nominee amid the spectacle of Times Square.
…“Christians are called to live out the Gospel in every aspect of their lives, including politics. It matters. It’s important. But we have to be sure that we are representing the Gospel in truth,” he said. “I think we know enough about Donald Trump to know that a Christian response should be prayer for him, but also a prophetic witness about what is true.”
The meeting was touted as including 1,000 evangelicals, but one person in the meeting said the number was closer to 500 invited participants, many of whom brought spouses with them.
Teetsel noted that many of the people who helped organize the meeting — Penny Nance of Concerned Women for America and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council — had endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., in the primary. While Trump won over evangelicals during the primary who were nominal churchgoers and less devout, this meeting was about getting Cruz evangelicals to do more than just hold their nose and vote for him. These are politically active Christians who can influence local and regional networks of like-minded faith voters.
“I think there are people who wish they didn’t have to be but are genuinely torn,” Teetsel said. “It makes sense that people would have trouble coming to grips with the fact that people of faith have already lost. If you care about life and marriage and religious liberty, you’ve already lost.”
These days I’m thinking a lot of Christians feel like Teetsel does.