Taking a Stand

The 2024 election in in two weeks. Regardless of who wins, as an evangelical Christian I record my stance.

I have taken a stand against Donald Trump for 35 years. I will continue to do so.

I recognized Donald Trump as a corrupt real estate hawker in 1990. That year I drove my children through Atlantic City so they could see the damage caused by his new casino.

When Trump used his millions to bully others and refused to pay his bills, I promised to be frugal and honest in my dealings.

When Trump bragged about his friendship with Hugh Hefner, when he boasted of the many women he had slept with, when he divorced one wife to marry a new model, I struggled to be a faithful husband and a devoted father.

When Trump mocked women, minorities, the disabled, I tried to care for the vulnerable and the immigrant.

When Trump ran for the presidency in 2016, I voted in the Republican primary for Kasich; when Trump won the presidency in 2016, I left the Republican party.

Jan and I have followed this corrupt deceiver for 35 years. He has not changed. Sadly, what has changed is the stance of the evangelical church in America. In 1990, Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority opposed Donald Trump. In 2016, Jerry Falwell, Jr., eager for political power, bowed the knee to Trump. Today, many Christians in America, eager for political power, ignore the many deceptions of this antichrist figure and worship him. This is wrong. It is sin.

The Third of the Ten Commandments prohibits using God’s name in vain. When the people of Israel, identified with God’s name, worshiped idols, they profaned His name. When Christians in America identify Jesus with Trump, they profane the name of Jesus and also violate the Third Commandment. 

When my grandchildren someday ask, “Why didn't Christians oppose Trump?” I will say, “Jan and I opposed him from the beginning. As did many other Christians. Sadly, we were in the minority in many churches.”

For 35 years I’ve taken a stand against the corruption, the deception, the sins of Donald Trump. As an evangelical Christian, I continue to do so.

Addendum: 

Being pro-life is much much more than a one-line bumper sticker.

Jan and I have been deeply pro-life. We have taken young women into our homes and had single moms - and their babies - live with us. We have repeatedly worked to encourage a woman to keep her baby and also worked to make sure she had support, encouragement, medical support. One of my recent prolife actions was even covered in a Cru newsletter (see here: https://mailchi.mp/cru/comingback-kubicek-9160809...)

But Jan and I are REALLY prolife, not bumper-sticker prolife. Don't be fooled by claims that somehow voting for a criminal, a traitor, a serial abuser of women, is prolife.