Trump’s plan to attend March for Life sends clear signal to evangelicals by jonward11
If there was ever any doubt whether religious conservatives will stick with President Trump — and there really wasn’t — it went away this week when the president announced he would be the first president to attend the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C.
Republican presidents who did anything sent video messages of support. Even Trump did that the past two years, though he did show more support than normal by sending Vice President Mike Pence, an evangelical Christian. The marchers gathered on the National Mall or the Ellipse watching the president’s message on a video screen could turn their head and see the White House and wonder why the president didn’t come out and speak in person.
“Who wants pictures of politicians as your story rather than pictures of hundreds of thousands of people peacefully, prayerfully marching?” the former Bush adviser said. Not every conservative evangelical was thrilled. The pro-life movement “is strongest when it speaks clearly to all about sanctity of human life from faith, moral, ethical, & science perspectives,” tweeted Alan Cross, a Southern Baptist writer. “Long-term result of Trump becoming spokesman for ProLife Mvmnt could be its weakening.”
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