Evangelicals, Having Backed Trump, Find White House Front Door Is Open

[Initech]

WASHINGTON — When the White House wants to gather evangelicals for one of its many issue-specific “listening sessions,” the Rev. Johnnie Moore is often one of the first to hear.

It wasn’t always clear that Mr. Moore, a 34-year-old Southern Baptist minister who was a co-chairman of the Trump campaign’s evangelical advisory board, would be a frequent White House guest. Some critics, and even some evangelicals, wondered whether conservative Christians’ sometimes uneasy alliance with the Trump campaign was a marriage of convenience that would be abandoned after Inauguration Day. But one year in, conservative religious leaders are hailing the president’s actions in office.

“This White House, the front door is open to evangelicals,” said Mr. Moore, who estimates that he has visited at least 20 times since Mr. Trump took office, averaging nearly once every other week. “It hasn’t been evangelicals reaching into the White House. It’s been the White House reaching out to evangelicals. Not a day goes by when there aren’t a dozen evangelical leaders in the White House for something.”

This week will be a culmination of those ties. On Thursday, Mr. Moore will join what he calls the “Super Bowl for peacemakers” here: the annual National Prayer Breakfast, where around 3,000 clergy members, politicians and business leaders will eat, network and listen to speeches, including one from President Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/us/politics/trump-evangelicals-national-prayer-breakfast.html

RIP separation of church and state. 1789 - 2018. You will be missed. Oh and fuck the fucking religious right.

[HopeAgain]

1. Don't believe this is about just abortions and who can marry

Evangelical leaders today are raking in the cash like nobody's business.

[CatMor]

2. That's because they are his base....

he can't win without Evangelicals.

[Initech]

3. I think it's time we go after his base.

They've been getting away with too much bullshit for too long. If the dems don't go after this segment we can expect to lose more elections.

[CatMor]

4. I agree, but how is it done

[Initech]

6. I don't know.

But it's going to take some strategy and going after that segment of "the base" could get extremely ugly. But I feel it must be done if we're going to get this country back on the right track.

[mr_lebowski]

7. In what sense would they be 'gone after'? Like converting them to being Dems, or?

[Initech]

8. Countering the bullshit is always a great way to start.

And the evangelicals are definitely full of it. Unfortunately we don't have the propaganda network that they do, we are going to have to start from scratch here.

[atreides1]

5. Okay

But where do you find good wood to construct so many crucifixes?


Just kidding...

[dhill926]

9. peacemakers my ass....

fuck these hypocrites....