First Liberty Institute President and CEO Kelly Shackelford, regarded as one of the nation’s foremost legal experts on religious freedom, was on the meeting’s steering committee. “There’s, like, nothing out there”, Trump said, according to a video captured by attendee E.W. Jackson Sr., a Virginia minister who has run for political office there and is a Trump supporter. “I think it’s strengthened my view of him”.
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Scarborough explained that they believe there is a holy war between Islam and Christianity that must be fought and Trump is the man to do it. “I think after that, Planned Parenthood is a footnote”, he said. “There are some very concrete things that have to take place”, he said, noting that Trump’s choice of a running mate, his embrace of a conservative platform, and how he handles the convention next month will be consequential.
Declaring religious liberty is “the No. 1 issue”, Trump reportedly said he’d appoint anti-abortion judges, would end a federal ban on political endorsements by religious institutions that have tax-exempt status and would get the country to say “Merry Christmas” again.
“Mr. Trump’s proposals are not just un-Christian – they’re un-American and at odds with the values our country holds dearest”.
Responding to reporters’ questions afterward Tuesday to clarify Trump’s comments about Clinton, spokeswoman Hope Hicks said the GOP candidate had “no intention” of questioning Clinton’s faith.
Trump addressed a group of about 100 religious leaders before he spoke at a larger private event, “A Conversation About America’s Future with Donald Trump and Ben Carson”, hosted by two faith-based organizations: United in objective and My Faith Votes, of which Carson is the chairman. He exposed phony statistics now quoted by our president regarding unemployment and economic growth, and pledged to use his vast business experience to straighten out the issues now facing inner cities. For one specific person. And if people didn’t like him and didn’t want to support him, they [wouldn’t].
In parting words, Pastor Rick ended by saying that before today he admittedly had his doubts, but now there is no doubt in his mind that that “Donald Trump would make a fantastic president”.
At a 2012 event sponsored by the Christian conservative group The Family Leader, Bachmann said she was prompted to introduce the amendment by the 2003 Massachusetts Supreme Court decision that legalized gay nuptials in that state. There are some people who say, ‘Oh, Donald Trump said don’t pray for all your leaders, only pray for him.’ Look folks, I was in the room. “Hillary Clinton is the leader who people of faith are looking for and we are praying that Sister Hillary and not Mr. Trump will be elected in November”.
These questions represent real tensions between Trump’s campaign and conservative Christians.
It might behoove honest Christian leaders who see Trump for what he is to be instrumental in the Dump Trump movement.
Conservative website Redstate, which opposes Trump’s candidacy, criticized the gathering of evangelical leaders as “professional “Christian” lobbyists” who are being fooled by Trump’s outreach to them.
“The meeting had an effect that I did not expect on me”, he said.
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The likely GOP presidential nominee attended a meeting Tuesday at the Marriott Marquis hotel in Times Square with some of the most influential Christian conservative leaders in the nation. He added that Obama walked away from Iraq and “gave it to Iran, which is now a major power”.
