North Carolina Christian pastor writes piercing open letter to Hillary Clinton

[lunamagica]

John Pavlovitz is a unique veteran pastor in Raleigh, North Carolina who has been very vocal about the 2016 election, the misogyny of men like the president-elect, and more recently his admiration for Hillary Clinton. In his most recent open letter to Clinton, he starts off giving thanks to her for the work she’s done for the past five decades, what she accomplished this year, her “dignity in the face of undignified behavior,” her seriousness at the prospect of leading our country, and her campaign of diversity, equality and shared strength — which she ran with grace and continuously reminded us of America’s greatness. He adds Hillary did everything she was supposed to do — everything she was asked:

You were prepared and balanced and cool under pressure.
You knew what you were talking about at every turn.
You saw the big picture, and you knew the countless small details that your opponent could never be bothered with.
You endured a relentless flood of misinformation by continually, plainly speaking your truth.
You had your character assassinated over and over—and in response you simply showed that character.
You shouldered the kind of expectations that no man aspiring to the position has ever had to contend with.
You had to be both strong and sensitive, tough and warm, fierce and likable—and you were.
You never talked in nonsensical sound bites, never ranted like a lunatic at your detractors, never viciously attacked citizens on social media—and you never stooped to the inhumanity of your opponent.

Giving more accolades, Pavlovitz continues:

Despite the unprecedented viciousness hurled at you, you never responded in kind; you just kept on being decent, intelligent, thoughtful—Presidential. You alone had the experience and the temperament and the maturity to do the job of leading this country. That should have been enough. I’m sorry that it wasn’t.

Pavlovitz then states some apologies to Clinton saying he’s sorry that his 7-year old daughter won’t get to see the first woman


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[sfwriter]

1. Hear! hear!

👍🏼

[Arkansas Granny]

2. K&R

[Soxfan58]

3. This one line, sums it up

"You had your character assassinated over and over—and in response you simply showed that character. " Well written and completely accurate.

[Fast Walker 52]

4. Love it-- spot on and well-derserved praise for HRC

[BlueMTexpat]

5. Thanks for posting, luna!

I am still heartbroken and no, I will NOT "get over it."

EVER,

She is ALL of that ... and more. And too many overlooked her obvious quality and qualifications and voted for The Orange Boob Con-Man - or enabled his election in other ways. There is NO justification for what they did - NONE!

May every one of the voters and enablers (BernieBros, etc.) each get exactly the most fitting of karmas! There will be no sympathy or empathy from me. Ever.

[mtnsnake]

6. Very very refreshing

Highly recommended!

[Cha]

7. Gracias for this, lunamagica!

[oasis]

8. Great piece. Thanks lunamagica.

[Persondem]

9. Oh good!! I thought this might be a negative story about one of our

RW evangelical types. I am from NC and we seem to have more than our fair share of GOP loonies.

Very nice to hear such positives come from a religious person of some influence.

Thank you for posting this.