To The Reader’s Forum:

In Saturday’s paper a contributor asks why Christian Evangelicals would vote for such a blatant and conspicuous sinner as Donald Trump.

I don’t want to speak for evangelicals, but to me some of the answers are pretty obvious. They think they would be better off, spiritually and materially under Trump than under a Democrat. They think another Trump administration would do less to encourage the ever increasing discrimination and persecution of Christians both in their home towns and throughout the world. They think Trump would do less to facilitate abortions and the forced dumbing down of the line between acceptance and deviance in moral issues. They think Trump would give less support to destructive changes in education and wokification of their children. They think the increase in crime and tolerance of criminals would be slower under Trump than under a Democrat and therefore they could live more safely. They think Trump might lighten the onslaught of vexsome and costly regulations and prohibitions that intrude on every aspect of their lives, not to mention any business enterprise they might start. They would rather have a sinner way off in Washington than a mob of them with the law on their side at their front door. And they probably think Trump would give less support to the push to eradicate their way of life, their beloved customs and institutions, and their language.

Personally, I don’t like Trump and I fear for my future and that of my country if he gets another term. But I would be a fool, given a choice between bad and worse, to take worse.

Norman P. Carlson

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