Opinion｜Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: President Trump's Syria withdrawal decision and abandonment of Kurdish allies divides white evangelicals, as impeachment pressure builds.
why evangelical leaders who have supported Trump are united in challenging his impetuous decision in Syria
. At the moment when he needs defense against the impeachment inquiry, Trump has found one of the few issues that could hurt him with white evangelicals. As Turkey began its assault, religious conservatives who have consistently rallied to defend Trump called on their followers to pray for victims of the massacre Trump has facilitated., religious conservatives who have consistently rallied to defend Trump called on their followers to pray for victims of the massacre Trump has facilitated. “President Trump has committed an egregious act of betrayal,” conservative Christian radio host Erick Erickson tweeted.
President Trump has committed an egregious act of betrayal in what he is doing to the Kurds. Shame on him.Though gatekeepers of the religious right were initially reticent to embrace Trump in 2016. he won over the likes of Robertson, Perkins, Jeffress and Graham by parroting their language of traditional values, conservative judges and religious freedom.
But the religious right has also increasingly reimagined “religious freedom” to combine white Christians’ concern for the persecuted church in the Middle East with the belief that they themselves are persecuted here at home by liberal neighbors who “impose” their beliefs about the equality of women and the LGBTQ community.
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