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Robert Jeffress: Trump’s alleged affair with porn star ‘totally irrelevant’ to his evangelical base – Baptist News Global
“Evangelicals still believe in the commandment: Thou shalt not have sex with a porn star,” Jeffress said. “However, whether this president violated that commandment or not is totally irrelevant to our support of him.”
Jeffress said “even if it’s proven true, it doesn’t matter.”
Writer Campbell Robertson said many African-Americans who began attending majority white churches in the interest of racial reconciliation began having qualms when white preachers were silent about police violence against unarmed blacks.
his (Trump's) comments about immigrants, open hostility to NFL players who kneel during the National Anthem and false claim that former President Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen.
“We were willing to give up our preferred worship style for the chance to really try to live this vision of beloved community with a diverse group of people,” she said. “That didn’t work.”
A Quiet Exodus: Why Black Worshipers Are Leaving White Evangelical Churches
At Gateway, black worshipers would discreetly ask one another if they were the only ones who noticed that one could talk about seemingly anything but racism, a feeling one former congregant described as an out-of-body experience.
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Seems if blacks attending those churches brought up any of their concerns, they were asked why they were being so divisive.
“Evangelicals still believe in the commandment: Thou shalt not have sex with a porn star,” Jeffress said. “However, whether this president violated that commandment or not is totally irrelevant to our support of him.”
Jeffress said “even if it’s proven true, it doesn’t matter.”
Writer Campbell Robertson said many African-Americans who began attending majority white churches in the interest of racial reconciliation began having qualms when white preachers were silent about police violence against unarmed blacks.
his (Trump's) comments about immigrants, open hostility to NFL players who kneel during the National Anthem and false claim that former President Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen.
“We were willing to give up our preferred worship style for the chance to really try to live this vision of beloved community with a diverse group of people,” she said. “That didn’t work.”
A Quiet Exodus: Why Black Worshipers Are Leaving White Evangelical Churches
At Gateway, black worshipers would discreetly ask one another if they were the only ones who noticed that one could talk about seemingly anything but racism, a feeling one former congregant described as an out-of-body experience.
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Seems if blacks attending those churches brought up any of their concerns, they were asked why they were being so divisive.