Joe.My.God. LGBT News
American Family Association radio host Bryan Fischer today published a column in which he denounces evangelicals who are happy to overlook Donald Trump’s history of adultery and Melania Trump’s history of appearing in “lesbian-themed” photo shoots. He writes:
The flamboyant Mr. Trump has thus far escaped any genuine probing on this matter. He is famously on his third marriage, married to a glamorous woman who has done nude, lesbian-themed photo shoots in the past.
While Trump is quite rightly making an issue of Bill Clinton’s randy sexual past, and Hillary’s role in enabling his career as a serial sexual abuser, he himself has so far been left unchallenged and unscathed.
Trump’s divorce from his first wife Ivana was tabloid fodder for years because it involved a long affair between Trump and Marla Maples, who eventually became his second wife. While still married to his first wife, Trump put Ms. Maples up in a suite at the Trump Regency, where together they would dominate the social scene in Atlantic City.
Meanwhile, the Trump children were devastated, as all children are in such circumstances, by the attention given to their father’s affair with Ms. Maples and by front-page coverage of their parents’ separation and impending divorce.
Donald was utterly unapologetic about abandoning his first wife. He admitted that he was the one who left, and that he did it because of his sexual infatuation with Ms. Maples, using a vulgar expression I cannot repeat on a family-friendly website. All this was happening in the early 90s, at the very same time news started to dribble out about Bill Clinton’s sleazy sexual escapades.
Trump’s excuse for his behavior, and his explanation for why people should not give it serious consideration is, “You know what? I wasn’t the President of the United States. And I wasn’t dealing in the Oval Office, all right? A big difference. I wasn’t the president.” That’s an alarmingly thin and relativistic pretext, as if some things can be sexually immoral if a president does them but not if a businessman does them.
Fischer is correct in that I’ve seen little criticism of Trump’s marital history on right wing sites. Most major evangelicals have so far backed Ted Cruz.