momi
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What are your feelings about the Pastors meeting with Trump? Can you cite a biblical precedent in favor of or against the shindig? Book and verse please...
For all of President Trump’s success with white evangelicals, he has fared poorly with most black Protestant Christians.
But he sought to make changes this week when he invited multiple pastors of predominantly black congregations to the White House to discuss prison reform. While many prison reform advocates support sentencing changes, the White House has focused its efforts on developing workforce training, reentry and rehabilitation programs.
Despite the desires of those affiliated with the Trump administration who are focused on black voter outreach, there won't be any significant changes to support for the president from the black community, based on historical voting patterns. How black Protestants vote overlaps significantly with black Americans in general, meaning Trump lost their support in 2016 and has continued to poll poorly with the groups.
Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, won nearly 90 percent of the black vote, according to exit polls. And in that year, nearly 7 in 10 black evangelicals identified with the Democratic Party, according to Public Religion Research Institute.
Bishop Paul S. Morton, founder of the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship, an Atlanta-based network of predominantly black churches, appeared to address his dissatisfaction with Trump’s leadership after the meeting.
But frequent criticism from black pastors has not kept the president from using surrogates with roots in America’s black Christian communities to rally support behind his presidency. And one pastor who attended a meeting of mostly black clergy this week may be a challenge for Trump after he stated Thursday that the president’s actions since arriving in the White House may have caused more harm than good.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...f-trump/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b048b2cf2d7a
For all of President Trump’s success with white evangelicals, he has fared poorly with most black Protestant Christians.
But he sought to make changes this week when he invited multiple pastors of predominantly black congregations to the White House to discuss prison reform. While many prison reform advocates support sentencing changes, the White House has focused its efforts on developing workforce training, reentry and rehabilitation programs.
Despite the desires of those affiliated with the Trump administration who are focused on black voter outreach, there won't be any significant changes to support for the president from the black community, based on historical voting patterns. How black Protestants vote overlaps significantly with black Americans in general, meaning Trump lost their support in 2016 and has continued to poll poorly with the groups.
Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, won nearly 90 percent of the black vote, according to exit polls. And in that year, nearly 7 in 10 black evangelicals identified with the Democratic Party, according to Public Religion Research Institute.
Bishop Paul S. Morton, founder of the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship, an Atlanta-based network of predominantly black churches, appeared to address his dissatisfaction with Trump’s leadership after the meeting.
But frequent criticism from black pastors has not kept the president from using surrogates with roots in America’s black Christian communities to rally support behind his presidency. And one pastor who attended a meeting of mostly black clergy this week may be a challenge for Trump after he stated Thursday that the president’s actions since arriving in the White House may have caused more harm than good.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...f-trump/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b048b2cf2d7a
