Pastor Doug Wilson's fringe teachings go mainstream in Trump's Washington
For decades, Doug Wilson was a relatively unknown pastor in Idaho, relegated to the fringe of evangelicalism for his radical teachings.
Now he’s an influential voice in the Christian right. That shift in clout was apparent this past week as he took a victory lap through Washington, sharing a stage with Trump administration officials and preaching at his denomination’s new church.
“This is the first time we’ve had connections with as many people in national government as we do now,” Wilson told The Associated Press in August.
Wilson and his acolytes within the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches still teach that empathy can be a sin, that the U.S. is a Christian nation, that giving women the right to vote was a bad idea. But as evangelicalism has aligned more closely with President Donald Trump’s Republican agenda, these teachings have a larger and more receptive audience.
“Whatever he may have been in the past, he’s not fringe now,” said Brian Kaylor, a Baptist minister and Wilson critic who wrote the forthcoming book “The Bible According to Christian Nationalists.”
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This guy is not only a heretic, he's a fucking DANGER!