The sitting President of the United States just referred to an elected member of Congress from Minnesota as "garbage." By now, this, of course, is not news. By now, what this should have been is an outrage, an unacceptable, unAmerican, unpatriotic, anti-Christian statement that should have generated immediate and forceful censureship from the Republican Party, because he claims to be one of them. From them, silence, which is to be expected, given their moral bankruptcy and their lack of patriotic American values.

So, too, should there have been immediate condemnation and rebuke from the pulpits of mega church conservative Evangelicals who love the focus of cameras and publicity on them, because such a statement is a direct contradiction of the whole of the Christian gospel, an indictment that can draw support from every word of Christ's sermon on the mount, and every apostolic principle found in the New Testament. It's a statement, directed from one human being to another, that demonstrates the very principle of "anti-Christ [see I John 4:1-3]. From them, too, unfortunately, there is silence, also to be expected, given their apostasy from the Christian gospel and their unprincipled selfishness.

It's pretty obvious that Omar has gone well beyond expectations in contributing to the progress and good will of the United States. Her appreciation for what she has received from being a citizen of this country is recognized by her gratitude, shown by the sacrifices she makes and work she performs for its protection and its prosperity. Her work has been affirmed by her constituents,, who have elected and re-elected her to serve four times, each time by margins which go far beyond the capability of the numbers of the former Somalians who have earned American citizenship and live in her district to produce.

Name-calling is one of the most petty behaviors in which politicians indulge. It reveals their character, or lack of it, revealing frustration over the fact that the facts do not support their own contentions and they can't win the argument with their opponent. What makes this particular name-calling by Trump especially disgusting, petty, and also ads the elements of being anti-American and anti-Christian to the mix, is that his basis for using the term has to do with Omar's ethnicity and religion. In American idealism, true patriots who understand the reason for this country's existence, and its constitutional democracy and the freedom it protects, do not openly demonstrate such bigotry.