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Evangelical used to be a term which described Christians who believe the business of the church is to
change men’s hearts, not to change society. Today, evangelical better describes a religious political
movement to control government.

Eighty percent of white evangelicals voted for an unrepentant vagina groper who lost the 2016 election
by three million votes and got help from Russia to become president. That 80% held true again in 2020
and 2024 as white evangelicals again chose the felony convict found liable for sexual assault.

Sexual assault and rape are not crimes of attraction or enticement they are crimes of control by weak
men willing to hurt the vulnerable to feel powerful and dominant. Men like Trump and Epstein feel
entitled because they are the privileged, the unaccountable minority.

Trump said Epstein “stole” teenager Virginia Giuffre from his spa at Mar-a-Largo. Why were 16-year-olds
working in the “towel room” at Mar-a-Largo? Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell who recruited
the high schooler worked at Mar-a-Largo, also. Giuffre committed suicide in April.

Trump bragged about groping females because he feels privileged. Trump, found liable for sexual assault
at jury trial, was endorsed as God’s “chosen” by Republican evangelical leaders, including Franklin
Graham. God doesn’t “choose” sexual assault, so why do evangelicals vote that way? Perhaps, their lust
for political dominance is not unlike Trump, Epstein and Maxwell’s lust for sexual dominance, one is
physical the other political.

Trump described Epstein as a terrific guy who “likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them
are on the younger side.” Epstein was asked under oath if he ever socialized with Trump in the presence
of females under age 18. Epstein, refused to answer, invoking the Fifth Amendment.

Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802 referencing the First Amendment:
“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God… I contemplate
with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature
should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’
thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.”

Jefferson and early Christian leaders wisely separated the business of state in serving society from the
business of the church in changing men’s hearts.

Roland Myers
rural Oakwood