All posts tagged "Evangelicals"

Republican lawmakers and administration officials stood up evangelical conservatives, a key Trump voting bloc increasingly frustrated with the GOP.

Members of the House and Senate, along with at least one Cabinet official, were confirmed as speakers in the months leading up to the Family Research Council's Pray Vote Stand Summit, but nearly all of them had dropped off the roster by the time it began, Joe Perticone reported for The Bulwark on Tuesday.

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) was once listed as a confirmed speaker but dropped off the roster over the summer, even though he's facing an unexpectedly close race in November against a Democratic nominee who leads a megachurch....

Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson shared just why President Donald Trump's decision to share an image of himself posed as Jesus "raising someone who looks a lot like Jeffrey Epstein from the dead," troubles him.

The co-founder of The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump organization, discussed in his Substack on Tuesday why Trump's latest move was not only unsettling, but analyzed just how "the entire scam" has played out among MAGA and Christian followers who supported Trump.

"Now, it’s been a minute since Divinity class, but I know my Bible well enough to know that what we’re looking at here is either the greatest act of accidental self-own in the history of organized religion, or, and bear with me here, a slow-roll confirmation of the one prophecy nobody in MAGA land bothered to read before slapping on the red hat," Wilson wrote. ...

President Donald Trump just exposed the religious right's "devil's pact" with his performance at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday.

In an analysis from David Smith, The Guardian's Washington bureau chief, Smith pointed out how Trump, whose Christian faith and religious life has been questioned in the past, hurled insults at political enemies and took swipes at “transgender insanity” throughout his speech in Washington, D.C. And despite these moves, and previous acknowledgement that he might not be the most faithful follower among Republicans, the right-wing Evangelicals have continued to support him.

This week, Trump recalled how Baptist Robert Jeffress gave a frank reaction to him, Smith reported. ...

Large numbers of evangelicals and Catholic churches are "quiet quitting" President Donald Trump and leaving MAGA — hoping to avoid isolating people who are still devotees but are distancing themselves from the president's aggressive immigration policies and remarks, Axios reported on Wednesday.

Some congregation members are stepping away from supporting Trump and pastors are attempting to pander to them, even steering clear of political sermons and messages, according to the report.

"We've gotten more testimonials. I'm starting to now see 'Leaving MAGA' signs popping up on billboards, overpasses, and [at] No Kings protests," Rich Logis, who founded a group called Leaving MAGA, told Axios. ...

An Indiana church is urging the Trump administration to "execute" members of the LGBTQ community because "the Bible teaches that those people are worthy of death," according to WISH-TV 8 in Indianapolis.

In a sermon titled, "Pray the Gay Away," Stephen Falco, an evangelical preacher with the Sure Foundation Baptist Church, yelled from the pulpit, "They're all a bunch of f-----, that want to walk around, come on our streets, and demand our children. And we should look them in the eye and say, 'No, you're not going to have our children!'"

The event called "Men's Preaching Night" was live-streamed on the church's Facebook account, according to the report....

Amanda Marcotte with Salon is lifting the lid on a scandal of somewhat Biblical proportions involving the evangelical MAGA acolytes behind the hugely successful podcast "Girls Gone Bible."

Nicole Ardrete, a former friend of L.A. actresses and self-professed "Jesus freaks" Angela Halili and Arielle Reitsma, told Marcotte they all once worked together as underground "poker girls" who dressed sexy and were expected to flirt with high-end male customers in Los Angeles.

According to Marcotte, Halili and Reitsma put all that behind them to build a cult following for their hyper-feminine focus on purity, modesty, "submission" in marriage, and support of President Donald Trump's agenda. According to Marcotte, the Girls Gone Bible YouTube channel has more than 730,000 subscribers and nearly a million followers on Instagram, while their podcast "sits at the top of Spotify's podcast charts in the Religion & Spirituality category." ...