Manhattan church led by Norman Vincent Peale was known for opposing presidency of JFK – and Catholics in general
That church’s pastor in Trump’s youth, Norman Vincent Peale, who would later officiate at Trump’s first wedding, is best-known today as the author of the Christian self-help book The Power of Positive Thinking, but when Trump was 14, Peale made national headlines as the leader of a group of Protestant churchmen who loudly objected to the presidential candidacy of John F Kennedy, on the grounds that he was a Catholic.
As Time magazine reported in September 1960, Peale, “a longstanding Republican whose Protestant following rivals Billy Graham’s as the largest in the US”, was one of the most prominent leaders of a group of “150 Protestant clergymen and laymen, calling themselves the Citizens for Religious Freedom” . . .
Continue @ Guardian
Or it's entirely fitting with every other public pronouncement Trump has made whenever he feels slighted. He's a man of no nuance, no strategy nor social grace. If God themselves suddenly appeared on TV and critiqued Trump He too would get a rabid, vitriolic and quite unhinged tweet at 1am. Mr Prevost is just like the rest of the world in that regard.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Trump and Leo could become mates, if Trump would stop wanting world domination. They could then be called: "Chuckle Brothers" mark II sharing the world between them under an 'Agreement'!
ReplyDeleteIt’s mother a Scottish Protestant and his father a member of the Klan nope can’t see the problem there 🤣 The irony of a clearly anti Catholic group calling themselves “Citizens for religious freedom”. It’s like listening to members of the Orange Order telling us they’re a historical society. You can put a ribbon round dog shit it’s still dog shit.
ReplyDelete