MAGAt candidate Derrick Van Orden, who is running for Wisconsin's Third Congressional District, was speaking at a prayer breakfast when he said that leftists could not be Christian:
Derrick Van Orden, the Republican candidate in Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional race, said that “leftists” cannot be Christian at a prayer breakfast in Sparta last week.
“There are many God-fearing Christians who are Democrats, there’s not a single God fearing Christian that is a leftist, because those two things are incompatible,” said Van Orden in an audio recording taken by an attendee of the breakfast and given to the Tribune by the Pfaff campaign.
Van Orden continued to compare “leftists” to false prophets who don’t like the U.S. and called for a return to the Judeo-Christian values that “this country was based on.”
The article goes on to report that Van Orden claims to be a member of the Bible Baptist Church, which believes that being gay, lesbian, or bisexual is a sexual perversion and lumps them in with incest and bestiality.
After Pfaff expressed his umbrage, Van Orden, being the cowardly bully that he is, attacked Pfaff again, but avoided answering the questions put to him.
I really wish Pfaff had responded a bit more strongly, because in truth, Van Orden is in no position to call out anyone on their Christianity or their patriotism.
What does Van Orden's "church" think of his boasting about sexually harassing two women while in the service, when he exposed his lieutenant's genitalia to them? Or that Van Orden gleefully accepted $12,000 from serial sexual harasser Steve Wynn and wouldn't return it?
And as far as patriotism goes, he seems to have forgotten that he illegally used his campaign funds to buy plane fare to Washington so that he could participate in the January 6 insurrection.
I would hope that the voters in that district would have enough integrity to know not to give him the time of day. Sadly though, due to gerrymandering, the district, which had been represented by a Democrat for many years, now leans to the right.
