My advice is not to listen too much to comments – don’t let them influence you; and just advertise your views and let others react to you.

For example, if you look at the comment history of the “Sorry, I still cannot vote for Trump,” he’s claiming to be a middle school teacher who advocates transgenderism for his-her students.

“…there is no single way to be a boy or a girl.”

“I think this is true, and I think it was easier, in spite of what could be seen as more rigid roles in mid-20th century culture, for children maturing before the Sexual Revolution and such an openly sex-saturated culture. There was more time for them to be children. However, there are so many cultural messages given, including those given by proponents of teaching the highlighted curriculum, that are contrary to this statement. I always point to advertising and the messages presented therein, both explicit and implicit. No matter what the inclusive political message may be, there is simply no escaping the stereotypes, even among those messengers. The inclusive folks are pressuring the kids just as much as those who pressure with stereotypes. No wonder so many children who may already arrive at puberty with difficulties that range from “normal growing pains” to deep wounds are plunged into further confusion.

I work part time as a substitute teacher in middle school and high school, and have encountered a few students who believe they’re trans. So far they have all been girls who cut their hair short and dress more “boyishly”. Observing the middle schoolers particularly, it is clear to me that they are simply trying to carve out some space and time to mature, in order to be less stressed with regard to gender stereotypes and pressure to be overtly sexual.”

And on and on and on…

This person is sick. And I really hope he-she is lying about being a school teacher for young kids. These are the kinds of “people” (Assuming they’re not bots or trolls or plain frauds) you are thinking of bringing “into the tent” (when you should be excluding them).

So it’s no wonder. He-she doesn’t mind American Church’s losing their tax-exempt status over LGBT; he probably advocates it the same way Beto does – and he’s doing it under false pretenses.

This is why Church’s which purposely exclude LGBT are the only ones to survive. Why do you think the sexual abuse int he Catholic Church occurred? Do you honestly think sodomozing boys is something a “straight”, normal priest would do? Furthermore, he claims to be an Orthodox Christian – and he’s clearly lying, based simply on the way he references bible and speaks mostly in ridiculous general terms of “Scripture”.

I found it interesting to say the least, that my most vociferous critics were criticizing me for the same traits that they admired in Trum. It just depends on whose ox is being gored.

I’m trying to sort out my *feelings,* versus my *observations,* about Trump. There is a nonzero possibility that one of my *feelings* that stands in opposition to my general dislike of the man (also a feeling, and not one that, so far, I’ve let get in the way of my approval of his attempts to keep campaign promises and his surprisingly conservative actions) is my sense that he’s acting at times out of a realization that he has nothing to lose.

People talk about his “tarnished brand.” Good Lord, how does it get more “tarnished” than being a national laughingstock for your *hair*? Or for your little verbal stinger (“Yeh FIRED!”)? He’s rich, he’s got a thriving family that can exist independent of the goodwill of their socioeconomic peers, he’s failed multiple times and come back from it so there’s no more stigma or pain that failure can cause him, those socioeconomic peers already think he’s a buffoon… He’s *free,* in the same way that Jubal Harshaw was free in “Stranger in a Strange Land” – free not to give a flying whatever. I want to be that free, darn it. But I’m not,
at least in part through my own squeamishness about being thought ill of by *my* peers, so maybe his radical personal freedom is a proxy for what I want but don’t yet have. Maybe it lets me see through my distaste of some of his personal characteristics to observe his actions a little more objectively.

Heck, I dunno. Maybe he’s just a puzzle wrapped in an enigma and all that.

And the reasonable, objective determination that this is just a face-saving rationalization is because of the amount of time and words you’ve already spent avoiding the presentation of any examples of any kind at all.

So by your own behavior it’s not a credible excuse. If you had the spare time and energy to strawman others and repeat yourself as many times as you have in this thread, you had the spare time and energy to provide just a couple of examples of your “reasonable, objective” evidence.

“I think there are plenty of “unknown”, not-on-Wiki people who can be interviewed and express right-based hate against Dems. But these are not “public figures”. All the public figure hate I see, including Trump (where I don’t see hate so much as mockery of Fake News, for instance), all the hate examples are from Dems.”

I think that’s absolutely right, and important. I don’t personally know any public figures of either party, but I think the syndrome is pretty much true down at the everyday-people level. It’s not just that I hear more hate from the liberals I know, but that they seem to be utterly unaware that they are in fact hateful. Or, if they are not in fact hating (giving them the benefit of the doubt), that they sure do come across that way. I did a blog post about that some time ago, maybe as much as ten years, and it’s only gotten worse. A few times I’ve tried to tell them how they come across to those who don’t agree, and they just do not see it at all. In their eyes I think (conjecture) they’re just telling the truth. If they call you a bigot, it’s not hate, it’s because you are one (in their eyes, obviously).

As to Trump’s religious status, I have no idea if he’s had a religious conversion experience. These do not usually change one’s whole personality, by the way. In my church’s liturgy, we pray weekly for the president by name. We did the same thing for Obama for eight years. I never saw any sign that Obama had opened his heart and mind in response to my prayers. As to Trump, I don’t know that, either, but I do know that he has tried to keep policy promises he made, which is more than many, perhaps most, politicians do.