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As former President Trump vies for another shot at the White House, one loyal demographic he is counting on is white Christian evangelicals. More than 80% of evangelicals backed Trump in the 2020 election, and after endorsing a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms, he’s gearing up for a repeat in 2024.
Watch the video above as Straight Arrow News contributor Dr. Rashad Richey, a Christian himself, reminds viewers what his religion truly stands for and then contrasts Christian values with evangelical political behavior.
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The following is an excerpt from the above video:
You see, I’m a Christian man myself, and I really can’t stand it when you guys hijack my faith, or at least attempt to.
You see, I try to understand the position, the posturing of Christian evangelicals. I try to understand how is it that you all can support an absolute known racist, and racist ideology. The bigotry codified inside of the movement of Christian evangelical movements, well, that’s evident. But where, where has the Christian evangelical movement done something inside of our American context that created inclusion and unity?
Because every time I see Christian evangelicals flex their muscles, they’re doing so in order to promote, proclaim and proudly share how they’ve created another regressive, discriminatory policy, but the discrimination is allowed by law.
Let me give you some examples. Christian evangelicals celebrate when those in the LGBTQ community can legally be discriminated against, or perhaps when someone engages in unfair treatment against others in the workplace, how they are not held accountable for it, because you cannot prove exacting racism, even though the markers are there. When has the movement of Christian evangelicals created a unifying policy, solved an actual problem and delivered for everyday Americans?
