Bill Dallas, head of the faith-based political non-profit United in objective, who co-organized the event along with Carson, told Fox News important issues to be ironed out were jobs, the economy, a strong military and Supreme Court picks.
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Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, gives a TED-style talk as a part of the Hispanic Baptist Pastors Alliance meeting in St. Louis. Almost all the candidates have provided statements (www.circleofprotection.us).
Trump’s meeting with religious leaders comes a day after he fired campaign manager Corey Lewandowski in a dramatic shake-up created to calm panicked Republican leaders.
In a statement to TheBlaze, Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, said that Trump “reiterated the most important pro-life commitment he has made to date: that he would appoint pro-life judges to the U.S. Supreme Court”. “A nasty guy with no heart!”
Trump and former GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson are leading a discussion with hundreds of evangelical leaders at the Marriott Marquis on Tuesday morning as Trump works to win their support in November.
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In a February blog post titled “Decency for President” that he later expanded for The Washington Post, Oak Hills Church pastor and popular Christian author Max Lucado said Trump wouldn’t pass the “decency interview” he required for his three daughters’ dates. We stand against bullying in schools.
“We are electing a president”, Lafferty said.
When the progressive media heard Obama’s mocking of Bachmann, they dutifully took his cue and heaped more invective on the former congresswoman.
In a blog post earlier this month titled “Can We Talk?”
“To be frank, at this point, there’s a widespread feeling it would be hard to do worse than a choice between Trump and Clinton”.
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Clinton’s been known to carry a Bible in her purse, but, she told the 2007 CNN Faith Forum, “advertising” her faith “doesn’t come naturally to me”.
Erickson previously had said he would support Trump if he became the party’s nominee. Donald Trump acknowledged that we’re supposed to pray for everybody. I’m not only against Hillary, I’m really for Donald Trump. “He only wants to date the preacher’s daughter”, he wrote. Several people who will be attending the meeting weighed in.
Jerry Falwell, Jr., the son of renowned homophobic religious right leader, Jerry Falwell, tweeted a picture today with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Another big topic: “Who the vice presidential pick is, I think that’s going to be important to us”. Trump also warned that Hillary Clinton would be even worse for evangelicals than Obama. “He will disgrace & taint all who snuggle up to him”.
There were some skeptics, including Michael Farris, a national homeschooling pioneer and influential Christian conservative, who said the summit “marks the end of the Christian Right.Today, a candidate whose worldview is greed and whose god is his appetites (Philippians 3) is being tacitly endorsed by this throng”.
The top official from Trump’s own denomination has denounced the candidate.
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But Gregory Angelo, the president of the Log Cabin Republicans, an LGBT Republican group, praised Trump’s rhetoric, saying he had “never seen a nominee so directly engage with and seek the support from LGBT voters”.
