Over the weekend, right-wing pseudo-historian David Barton appeared on the Bible Broadcasting Network’s “Weekend Connection” program, where he offered conservative Christians some guidance on how to vote in the presidential election based on the Ten Commandments.
Barton, who has made clear that he believes that Donald Trump is “God’s guy” in this election, admitted that no candidate is perfect as he made the case again that Christians must first and foremost focus on electing candidates who promise to appoint conservative judges because the Bible says that “the righteousness of the land is dependent on the judges in that land.”
In addition, he said, Christians must look to the Ten Commandments in casting their vote; specifically by supporting a president who “publicly acknowledges God [and] who openly supports the acknowledgement of God,” who is committed to “keeping the marriage bed pure” by opposing gay marriage, who opposes abortion and who opposes the use eminent domain to allow the government to take private property:
Trump, of course, pretty much fails to meet every one of these standards, as his public acknowledgements of God have been laughable, he clearly is not personally committed to “keeping the marriage bed pure,” his positions on gay marriage and abortion have been all over the map, and his love of eminent domain is well documented.
“There’s four issues right there that God put in his top ten” that Christians should use when deciding how to cast their vote, said Barton, who has already made clear that he’ll be voting for a candidate who has violated most of the very standards that he just laid out.
