My new favorite person is this cat Art Sisneros down in Texas. He's one of his state's electors and, over the weekend, he decided he cannot vote for Donald Trump, so he quit. He explained why in a blog post. His reasons are…interesting.

Voting for the nominee of our party, Mr. Trump, is certainly what the vast majority of Republicans are urging me to do. I have yet to find anyone that has biblically answered my first article. They don't make the case that Trump is indeed biblically qualified. I have had a few people take issue with the original intent of the Electoral College and my job as an Elector. Once presented with the evidence they usually acknowledge the validity of the original intent, but claim that has changed. The biggest beef most people have with me being so "arrogant" as to publicly state "this issue is so important that I am going to think about it" is that I signed the pledge. I have already expressed my reasons why I think the pledge is an immoral, unlawful pledge that the GOP makes Electors sign. It undermines the Bible and the Constitution. But they are 100% correct. I did, in fact, sign the pledge. It was a voluntary pledge and I willingly signed it. I was wrong in signing this pledge and not communicating to the body when I ran that my conscience would not be bound by it. I honestly did not have the convictions about the original purpose of the Electoral College or the biblical qualifications until after I was an Elector. The Bible calls this a rash oath and warns against making them. It clearly states: "if a person swears, speaking thoughtlessly with his lips to do evil or good, whatever it is that a man may pronounce by an oath, and he is unaware of it- when he realizes it, then he shall be guilty in any of these matters. And it shall be, when he is guilty in any of these matters, that he shall confess that he has sinned in that thing."

Look, I don't think electors should be judging whether someone is "Biblically qualified" to hold a secular political office, and neither does the Constitution, now that I think about it. But, if this guy thinks he'll go to hell if he votes to make Donald Trump president, who am I to argue with him? The country's gone halfway there already just by electing the guy, and he's already stiffing us for the cost of the handbasket.

(h/t Talking Points Memo)

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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