Sentences with phrase «evangelical support»

She says her research revealed that more than 60 % of young evangelicals support more governmental programs to aid the needy, as well as more emphasis on economic justice and environmental protection issues.
Such evangelical support makes that first group of evangelicals really nervous.
David Brog of Christians United for Israel even wonders whether the end of evangelical support for Israel has come....
Rather than writing about this myself, I thought I'd open the floor to some Christian brothers and sisters who can explain what evangelical support of Phil Robertson communicates to them.
«When evangelicals support Phil Robertson, it tells me less about their attitudes toward sexual minorities than their ongoing interactions with me do.
«When evangelicals support Phil Robertson, it tells me that they want me gone, that they'll do whatever it takes to scare me away.
And a Public Religion Research Institute study from last month found that white evangelical support for Trump is at an all - time high.
A recent Pew poll found that, while most white evangelicals support Romney, a quarter are uncomfortable with his religion.
No candidate had even 25 % of evangelical support in the most recent poll, raising the possibility that Iowa's evangelical vote will be pretty diluted this week.
Behind evangelical support for Israel lies a long tradition of Christian thinking about the millennium.
Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, who rode evangelical support to victory in the first - in - the - nation Iowa caucuses earlier this month, each got 21 % of the evangelical vote in South Carolina.
Elect Voters At the outset of his thoughtful «The Evangelical Voter» (February), John G. West complains that the Romney campaign did not do more to cultivate Evangelical support while it did establish «outreach groups» for Catholics and Jews.
At the outset of his thoughtful «The Evangelical Voter» (February), John G. West complains that the Romney campaign did not do more to cultivate Evangelical support while it did establish «outreach groups» for Catholics and Jews.
The big reason Evangelicals support Israel, isn't that they love the Jews.
Do evangelicals support Donald Trump for president, or do they not?
The most common response I heard from evangelicals supporting Rush Limbaugh was that because Sandra Fluke was sexually active, she essentially «had it coming.»
Another factor contributing to Russian evangelical support for Trump was evangelist Franklin Graham, who prayed at Trump's inauguration ceremony.
With strong evangelical support, Santorum went on to win primaries and caucuses in 11 states, even as Romney racked up more than twice as many delegates.
A CNN / TIME / ORC poll last week found that Romney had the support of 16 % of likely evangelical caucus - goers in Iowa, compared to 22 % for Santorum, 18 % for Ron Paul and 14 % for Gingrich, who had much higher evangelical support in earlier Iowa polls.
He was also widely credited with garnering evangelical support behind the campaign of George W. Bush.
Reuters and others have found that church attendance distinctly decreases evangelical support for Trump, who has the least - religious supporters among the GOP candidates.
While Clinton's campaign largely ignored evangelical outreach (unlike Obama), Trump spent much of the months leading up to Election Day directly courting evangelical support.
What is most disturbing to me about this whole thing is that polls show that 68 percent of white evangelicals support John McCain.
«I suspect there's some underlying changes in polling responses that would make Trump's evangelical support seem greater than it has in the past.»
I am sure other people wonder why these Christian evangelicals support the Republican Party when that party is clearly the most materialistic of the two.
The Israeli Labor Party, which governed Israel from its beginning as a state in 1946 until Prime Minister Menachem Begin took power in June, had avoided cultivating the kind of American evangelical support expressed in the recent newspaper ads because it knew that to engage in religious arguments over national boundaries would be self - defeating.
This overt evangelical support for Israel aligns a branch of American Protestantism that traditionally has frowned upon religious involvement in political matters with the traditionally liberal U.S. Jewish community.
A second blind spot that I suspect is influencing evangelical support of Rush Limbaugh relates to women.
Very few evangelicals support polygamy, which was practiced by the godly patriarchs of the Bible.
When evangelicals support Phil Robertson, they tell each of us — not just the gay us, the black us; but the fearful us, the harmed us — «I do not, will not love you as Jesus does.»
As a presidential candidate in 2008, Huckabee - a Baptist minister who focused on faith - related issues like opposition to abortion - rode evangelical support to victory in Iowa and seven other states during the primaries and caucuses.
I think that the reason evangelicals support Israel is because it has to be a peaceful nation inhabited by Jews as a requisite for Jesus» second coming.
When evangelicals support Phil Roberston and his comments, it tells me we've grown to love our positions more than people.
White evangelical support for Donald Trump has steadily increased over time.
There's another element to evangelical support of Trump, one that Perkins's word choice in this interview makes clear.
I'm not surprised about the evangelicals support, their understanding of science is as good as Akin's, non-existent
The ultimate reality that I live with is that if my abuser had been Nathaniel Morales instead of Larry Nassar, if my enabler had been [an SGM pastor] instead of [MSU gymnastics coach] Kathie Klages, if the organization I was speaking out against was Sovereign Grace under the leadership of [Mahaney] instead of MSU under the leadership of Lou Anna Simon, I would not only not have evangelical support, I would be actively vilified and lied about by every single evangelical leader out there.
To the extent that this is true, evangelical support for Trump may very well be «contingent support» that could evaporate if Trump does not deliver as promised.
«When Evangelicals support Phil Robertson, it tells me that they don't think combatting homophobia and racism are significant issues for the Church or in building the Kingdom of God.
Evangelical support for Trump, while robust, seems to have been driven by prudential judgment and fear of a Clinton presidency, rather than by blind acceptance.
«When evangelicals support Phil Robertson, it tells me that they have no interest in loving me or much of the universal Church.
When Evangelicals support him and his offensive views, they make it clear that they don't support me, a fellow Christian.
Yet, when (white) Evangelicals support him, I know it is because his invocation of entitlements and welfare resonates with many of their political views, which unfairly tie welfare programs to black bodies.
A recent PRRI / RNS poll reveals that white evangelicals support a Mormon presidential candidate over Obama by an overwhelming 49 % margin, but are simultaneously the religious group most likely to say it is important for a presidential candidate to share their religious beliefs (67 %).
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