{"id":2257,"date":"2021-01-22T11:04:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T11:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2021-01-22T11:07:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T11:07:22","slug":"trump-and-his-supporters-twisted-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/?p=2257","title":{"rendered":"Trump, and his supporters&#8217; twisted values"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The dubious morality of Trump&#8217;s fundamentalist Christian supporters is examined in this opinion piece for the Barking and Dagenham Post (27.1.21)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-blue-color has-text-color\">Many Humanists will breathe a sigh of relief that Trump has vacated the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-blue-color has-text-color\">Trump\u2019s values are the antithesis of those we hold dear. Endorsing the racist \u2018birther\u2019 myth against Obama. Spouting hate against Muslims. Fanning division and trashing science. It was entirely predictable he would dispute losing the election and incite mob violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-blue-color has-text-color\">Trump\u2019s unholy alliance with conservative Christian fundamentalists, among his most ardent supporters, is another example of dubious morality. They turned a blind eye to Trump\u2019s less than devout private life. It was more important to have a champion willing to turn back the clock on women\u2019s right to choose, and on gay rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/OIP.TR8t42nq3n9DM2ipY6OLEAHaFe-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2260\" width=\"306\" height=\"226\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-blue-color has-text-color\">They clamoured for what they call the \u2018right to life\u2019 for the unborn, but were mostly mute on the many occasions Trump showed indifference to the death and suffering of the living. His hostility to migrants and his policy of separating children from parents at the border. His inaction over Covid, which has killed over 400,000 Americans. Withdrawal from action on climate change, whose deadly effects include fire, flood and drought.\u00a0 The thousands of gun deaths, not least the wanton taking of black lives by the police. And one of Trump\u2019s final gut-wrenching acts &#8211; rushing through the execution of prisoners on death row. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-blue-color has-text-color\">Biden is unlikely to hold all the answers to the world\u2019s problems. But at least he offers a better prospect of the calm, reasoned dialogue and empathy needed to tackle them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u00a9Paul Kaufman<br>Chair East London Humanists<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dubious morality of Trump&#8217;s fundamentalist Christian supporters is examined in this opinion piece for the Barking and Dagenham Post (27.1.21)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9c4oP-Ap","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2262,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}