I pointed a few days ago to a New York Times piece about a controversial article published by a Vatican magazine that trashes the close relationship between conservative American Catholics and the Evangelical Right. The article specifically criticized their support for Donald Trump.
What do you know? Johnnie Moore, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, wants to meet with Pope Francis so that he can set him straight.
Evangelical Trump supporters want meeting with Pope Francis
Evangelical supporters of President Donald Trump on Monday requested a meeting with Pope Francis over a recent critical article in a Vatican-vetted journal.
Johnnie Moore, a leader of Trump’s evangelical advisory board and a spokesman for some of its members, said he sent the request to Rome in response to an article published last month that accused some American Catholics of building an alliance of “hate” with evangelicals who backed the president.
Ho-ho — I would spend actual money for a ticket to that meeting. After all, the average Southern Baptist will tell you that Catholics aren’t Christians at all.
Moore: Hey! Pope-buddy! You got Donald all wrong! I have looked into his heart, and he is a fine and godly man.
Pope [turning to an aide]: Who is this noisy man? [Pope frowns as aide whispers in his ear]
Pope: You think I am not a Christian, but Donald Trump is?
Moore: Well, I got a problem with him letting Bruce Jenner use the ladies room, but Donald is a baby Christian. A good man anyway, dislikes all the same people we do — them smarty-pants perfessors, bossy women, nigras, moozlims, spics …
Pope: Do you know that Jesus was probably not a white man?
Moore: I’ll pray for you.
I’m sure that Pope Francis has better things to do than entertain yahoos like Moore but, geez, if it should come off I sure hope somebody leaks the transcript of that conversation to the Washington Post.