Do you defend Trump's infidelity?

[Cow Poke]

Fascinating that you consider such a small sampling fascinating.

[Cow Poke]

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[Sparko]

[Y]ea[h], one[.]

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[Cow Poke]

FIFY

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[NorrinRadd]

My finger twitched as I was trying to use the touchpad, so I'm not sure how I voted! I *intended* to vote "No," I do not "condone" his infidelity.

But I don't think infidelities that occurred prior to his election are relevant to his Presidency. Any that might occur while in office may or may not be relevant on a case by case basis. (For instance, having hookers come in and pee on each other in the Oval Office, or worse, the power imbalance inherent in even "consensual" sex with, say, a young White House intern would be problematic at best.)

I also suspect he'd engage in shady business practices, which does not thrill me. I think his pal Cohen is a sleazy weasel, and the fact that Trump was delighted to have such a guy as his "fixer" has now come back to sink its teeth firmly into his hindparts.

[Sparko]

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[Zymologist]

My finger twitched as I was trying to use the touchpad, so I'm not sure how I voted! I *intended* to vote "No," I do not "condone" his infidelity.

But I don't think infidelities that occurred prior to his election are relevant to his Presidency. Any that might occur while in office may or may not be relevant on a case by case basis. (For instance, having hookers come in and pee on each other in the Oval Office, or worse, the power imbalance inherent in even "consensual" sex with, say, a young White House intern would be problematic at best.)

I also suspect he'd engage in shady business practices, which does not thrill me. I think his pal Cohen is a sleazy weasel, and the fact that Trump was delighted to have such a guy as his "fixer" has now come back to sink its teeth firmly into his hindparts.

"Condone" might have been a better choice of word than "defend." The latter reads kind of funny anyway. Oh well.

[Mountain Man]

I gave. I gave you all Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more. 9 Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites

You're right, it was brazen, and David paid the price with an extended family full of strife, jealousy, infighting, rape, and murder.

[One Bad Pig]

I gave. I gave you all Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more. 9 Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites

It appears that you've managed to misread MM here. MM is not alleging that he'd been specifically condemned in this verse for polygamy.

[whag]

It appears that you've managed to misread MM here. MM is not alleging that he'd been specifically condemned in this verse for polygamy.

[One Bad Pig]

I see little value in debating scriptural interpretation with you, so I'll decline the implied offer to do so.

[whag]

You're right, it was brazen, and David paid the price with an extended family full of strife, jealousy, infighting, rape, and murder.

[Mountain Man]

...polygamy was more acceptable during biblical times than you are comfortable with.

Culturally, perhaps, but morally, no, because God explicitly forbade it, and David paid the price for his sin. There's no biblical argument to be made that polygamy is acceptable.

You're also arguing from silence, implying that because the Bible doesn't record it, therefore David was never called out on it.

[Juvenal]

... abuse ... twitter

Redundant.

[Cow Poke]

Not for nothing, but taking another man's wife in the OT was not the same as having multiple wives.