The former faith advisor to failed Republican presidential aspirant Sen. Marco Rubio stood outside Donald Trump’s meeting with evangelicals Tuesday, clutching a white poster outlining his distaste for the presumptive Republican nominee.
Eric Teetsel, who traveled to New York City from his home in Kansas to sit in on meetings with leaders of Better for America, a group organizing a campaign-in-waiting for a potential third party candidate, originally planned to just speak with attendees he knew about why he thought the meeting was a bad idea.
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But when he arrived at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, he felt he should take an even bolder stand.
Teetsel, 32, then went to Walgreens in search of poster board so he could fashion a hand-made sign about his issues with the billionaire, but he found nothing at the drug store.
“I wondered if that was a sign from God that I shouldn’t do this,” Teetsel told Yahoo News reporter Jon Ward. “Then I walked to Staples and found some poster board.”
He used a red marker in his bag to write his message on the white board: “Torture is not pro-life. Racism is not pro-life. Misogyny is not pro-life. Murdering the children of terrorists is not pro-life.”
In addition, the poster featured a reference to the Scripture verse Proverbs 29:2, which reads, “When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.”
Because of his Christian faith, and his political leanings, Teetsel felt he needed to do more than just stand quietly as attendees, spectators and journalists observed.