AP (via PBS): These evangelicals are backing Kamala Harris: 'tired of watching meanness, bigotry'

[Dennis Donovan]

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AP: These evangelicals are backing Kamala Harris: ‘tired of watching meanness, bigotry’

These evangelicals are backing Kamala Harris: ‘tired of watching meanness, bigotry’

Politics Sep 19, 2024
12:00 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the Rev. Lee Scott publicly endorsed Kamala Harris for president during the Evangelicals for Harris Zoom call on Aug. 14, the Presbyterian pastor and farmer said he was taking a risk.

“The easy thing for us to do this year would be to keep our heads down, go to the ballot box, keep our vote secret and go about our business,” Scott told the group, which garnered roughly 3,200 viewers according to organizers. “But at this time, I just can’t do that.”

Scott lives in Butler, Pennsylvania, the same town where a would-be assassin shot former President Donald Trump in July. Scott told The Associated Press that the attack and its impact on his community pushed him to speak out against Trump and the “vitriol” and “acceptable violence” he normalized in politics.

Trump has maintained strong support among white evangelical voters. According to AP VoteCast, a sweeping survey of the electorate, about 8 in 10 white evangelical voters cast a ballot for him in 2020. But a small and diverse coalition of evangelicals is looking to pull their fellow believers away from the former president’s fold, offering not only an alternate candidate to support but an alternate vision for their faith altogether.

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[Aristus]

1. Evangelical's politicized meanness and bigotry date back to the 1970's.

Where has this guy been the whole time? Does he have an acceptable level of meanness and bigotry?

[walkingman]

12. Correct - in the South, for white evangelicals, it dates back for at least 200 years....maybe longer?

[bucolic_frolic]

2. This may be the election where Zoom grows up

I'm seeing Zoom's for Harris every day. Zoom was not used as much in 2020.

[brewens]

3. Maybe too little too late though. These "Christians" have had since the 50s to push back against this crap. They should

realized god in the pledge and on the money was the nose under the camel's tent. Taht was an absolute, stone-cold Constitutional violation and they knew it, but they forced it on us because they could.

I kind of hope the blowback from all this beats that crap down so we can reverse every bit of damage they have done permanently.

[Attilatheblond]

4. Walking the walk, how refreshing. Too many don't or like he mentioned: keep their heads down.

The 'evangelical' leaders who support Trump are not practicing Christians, they are fellow con artists, bowing before the Con Artist God.

[walkingman]

5. I wish this would spread to the Southern Baptists. I question if it fits their religious model?

[rich7862]

6. This fake religion called Evangelist

The head of the Evangelical Religion made a deal with trump [as stated in the GOP”S Project 2025] that if trump wins this election the Evangelical Religion will be the only religion allowed in America.

As a member of this “forced ” Religion, you be obligated to donate a percentage of your income to the church along with free labor for any project the church needs. If you do not comply you will imprisoned and your property confiscated by this fascist, nazi dictatorship. No court of law will exist. I hope you read project 2025, it is an horrific document, that strips you of any rights.

[LAS14]

9. What's the Evangelical Religion?????

Who's its head?

Does this need a sign?

[Democratnik]

7. Are Presbyterians evengelical?

I could be wrong, but I've never thought of Presbyterians as evangelical. Just asking?

[LAS14]

10. No. Did anyone say they were? nt

[kerry-is-my-prez]

11. No. I think they're one of the more liberal denominations.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

8. Great news! Maybe they'll snap out of their mythologist fever dream too!

I did!

[Cha]

13. TY.. So the hell are WE.

Scott lives in Butler, Pennsylvania, the same town where a would-be assassin shot former President Donald Trump in July. Scott told The Associated Press that the attack and its impact on his community pushed him to speak out against Trump and the “vitriol” and “acceptable violence” he normalized in politics.

I'm sure TSF thought he was going to get a boucne from eargate.