Perspective: Romney was never Christian enough for some Republicans. Somehow, Trump still is.
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee speaks at the Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit in Altoona in 2016. By Nancy French Nancy French is a five-time New York Times best-selling author. April 25 at 11:30 AM When Mitt Romney ran for president in the 2008 GOP primary, many evangelical Christian voters were reluctant — putting it mildly — to support him because of his membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
My husband and I, members of the Presbyterian Church of America and Republicans at the time, should have been welcomed by the “values” voters. After getting to know Romney and his wife, Ann Romney, when I worked on a book project with her in 2007, we threw our support behind them and suddenly became the target of evangelical ire.
Isaiah 5:20 speaks directly to Huckabee and the rest of Trump’s evangelical defenders: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” Their “mother tongue,” it turned out, wasn’t the “language of Zion,” but crass expediency, molding their definition of Christian values to suit their needs in a quest for power over principle.
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