Several days ago Don Lemon, an anchor at CNN, shared a moving testimony about how he was victimized by a pedophile when he was a young boy.
Men like Mr. Lemon, and there are many of them, can easily identify with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s account of sexual assault. They can also relate to the shameful Republican tactics, seemingly successful tactics, to silence the victim. More than that, Republicans, with Donald Trump leading the way, have not only managed to silence Dr. Ford, they have erased her from their story altogether.
Please take a few minutes to watch Mr. Lemon’s excellent unveiling of the current Republican strategy for normalizing their disregard of sexual assault and all its victims:
Victims of sexual violence are non-entities today, at least in the realm of Republicanism. They have announced that these women’s (and men’s) stories are not worth hearing.
Women like Dr. Ford are now mere specters floating in a moral vacuum.
Rendered invisible, even as she stands before us.
Made mute by the black magic of partisan voodoo. Oppressive incantations intoned from the Senate floor.
Yet, if old white men like Donald Trump, Lindsey Graham, Rush Limbaugh and many others are to be believed, this non-existent, mute, invisible, female victim — who is really a non-victim in their eyes — poses a dire, existential threat to every man…every powerful man…every powerful white man in America today.
Of course, black men like Mr. Lemon don’t count. And black women aren’t worth mentioning by the likes of these white, old Republicans who strut their stuff from the Capitol steps.
And all the while, white conservative America stands to cheer them on.
They laugh, smile, applaud and cheer as they stand with their young sons and daughters at campaign rallies, watching their Sexual Predator/Serial
Adulterer/Misogynist/ Unapologetic Pussy Grabber-in-Chief mock this non-existent, invisible, mute, non-victim named Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.
It goes without saying that most of those white men and women from the Mississippi heartland, who were applauding the president’s demeaning imitation of a victim’s heart-rendering testimony, would call themselves Christians. They go to church. They even read the Bible, sometimes. They listen to sermons from pastors who gloat as they destroy their old Nike gear in the pulpit.
“Heck of a visual aid, pastor,” they say.
But they know nothing about the victimized, brutalized, beaten, scarred and crucified Jesus of Nazareth, the man who loved abused women (and children), held them in his arms, wept over them, healed their brokenness, and made them equals to the men who followed Him.
Their is no true Christianity without discipleship. Their is no discipleship that does not share in the sufferings of our Lord Jesus. No one who shares in the suffering of Christ would EVER laugh at, mock, ridicule or dismiss the sufferings of another human being, whatever the circumstances.
We are watching the putrefaction of America’s false religion, most fully 
displayed in patriotic “evangelicalism.” Only from the dung heap of idolatry can such a stench arise.
I’ll give Donald Trump this: he has torn away the mask of evangelical, America-First piety and revealed this Beast for what it truly is.
EVIL.
Pure, unadulterated evil.
