'Don’t even recognize the Republican Party': Conservative pastor makes the case for Harris

Arlington, Texas' Cornerstone Baptist Church Pastor Wm. Dwight McKissic Sr. usually votes Republican — but not this time.

"There’s a scripture in the seventh chapter of Matthew that says a tree that doesn’t bear good fruit should be cut down and tossed into the fire. That’s how I think evangelicals should treat today’s Republican Party," the anti-abortion pastor writes in a Sunday, November 3 op-ed for MSNBC.

"As it relates to abortion, Republicans have always been strong pro-life advocates. It was one of the pillars that the GOP included in its official party platform. That’s why voting for Republicans made sense to me," McKissic emphasized.

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Now, "I don’t even recognize the Republican Party anymore," the Virginia University of Lynchburg doctor of ministry student continued. "This year, for example, the GOP’s platform abandoned its long-standing call for a national abortion ban and removed the language that says marriage is 'between one man and one woman, and is the foundation for a free society.'"

Aside from Donald Trump's fickle stance on reproductive rights, McKissic says Trump's "numerous adulterous affairs, his multiple felony convictions, his race-baiting, his violent rhetoric, his repeated lies, his not resembling Christ or His church in any way" — all have also turned the conservative pastor away from the 2024 GOP nominee.

McKissic writes:

The party I knew and loved would have never chosen as its nominee the adulterous, childish, habitually lying and criminally convicted Donald Trump. Evangelical leaders rightly called Clinton out for his sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky and then his lying about it. It’s astonishing to see these same leaders ignore Trump’s many sex scandals and ignore that he was found liable in court of sexually abusing a woman.

"I’m voting for character and competence and for the candidate who 'has the capacity and bandwidth to demonstrate respect and high regard' for everybody made in the image of God," McKissic wrote via X. "Republican Donald Trump doesn’t have Harris’ character, her competence or her capacity."

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McKissic's full op-ed is available at this link.