A new version of my ten questions post from yesterday has just been published over on the Huffington Post (see the original post here).
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Wow. And so in the context of the Huff Post’s unabashed total support for Hillary Clinton, your article has become a pro-Hillary piece, despite the line saying you don’t intend to persuade anyone to vote for any particular person.
That’s okay, I guess. I’m just surprised.
I disagree.
When they asked me to write for them, I knew that their stance might be distracting. However, my piece makes clear that I think the standard critics of Trump and his voters dangerously overstate their case, that I am not advocating any candidate, and that my sole concern is that Christian Trump-voters do serious business with their consciences.
Although it may be more difficult for people to read such a piece in the context of the partisan character of the Huffington Post, I hoped that the people it was addressing would be fair-minded enough to, even in that context, temporarily close out the critics and wrestle with their conscience. While it certainly isn’t an ideal location to call people to have such a conversation with themselves, I am more concerned to get the message out to as many potential Christian Trump supporters as possible than I am with doing so under ideal conditions.
I understand your intentions.
I wonder whether the hope for fair mindedness is fainter than usual in the heated atmosphere of this election. 🙂 Certainly, I doubt the Huff Post would be asking you to write for the reasons you outline. But that’s not to say writing for them was a bad idea.
I bore in mind Paul’s approach to speaking the truth in Philippians 1:15-18 and decided that, though I knew the intentions of the HuffPo weren’t mine, the important thing was that I was conveying a message I thought needed to be heard.