Sentences with phrase «evangelicals support»

Very few evangelicals support polygamy, which was practiced by the godly patriarchs of the Bible.

The big reason Evangelicals support Israel, isn't that they love the Jews.

Do evangelicals support Donald Trump for president, or do they not?

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 %).

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.

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.

When evangelicals support Phil Roberston and his comments, it tells me we've grown to love our positions more than people.

When Evangelicals support him and his offensive views, they make it clear that they don't support me, a fellow Christian.

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.»

«When evangelicals support Phil Robertson, it tells me that they want me gone, that they'll do whatever it takes to scare me away.

«When evangelicals support Phil Robertson, it tells me less about their attitudes toward sexual minorities than their ongoing interactions with me do.

Therefore, when polls report that 87 per cent of white evangelicals support Trump, the emphasis should be on the white rather than evangelicals.

There's another element to evangelical support of Trump, one that Perkins's word choice in this interview makes clear.

And a Public Religion Research Institute study from last month found that white evangelical support for Trump is at an all - time high.

I know Romney performed better than McCain among evangelicals, but I still think it's much easier for the Republican Party to win a presidential election with a candidate with fervent evangelical support (this requires the rather delicate trick of not scaring the daylights out of everyone else in the country).

Would a true evangelical support Gay Marriage?

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.

As Richard Rohr said, «the evangelical support of Trump will be an indictment against its validity as a Christian movement for generations to 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.

Another factor contributing to Russian evangelical support for Trump was evangelist Franklin Graham, who prayed at Trump's inauguration ceremony.

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.

All of which the evangelicals supported.

Behind evangelical support for Israel lies a long tradition of Christian thinking about the millennium.

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.

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.

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.

He was also widely credited with garnering evangelical support behind the campaign of George W. Bush.

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.

Reuters and others have found that church attendance distinctly decreases evangelical support for Trump, who has the least - religious supporters among the GOP candidates.

«The story here continues to be continuity in the strength of evangelical support for GOP candidates, rather than greater intensity,» said Kevin den Dulk, political science professor at Calvin College.

My point about Evangelical support for Israel, which is the same as the Israeli point in the quotation I provided, is that Evangelical support is not based on moral, contextual, and rational thought but on religious ideology.Let me repeat what the Israeli's say once more:

If Huckabee chooses to run an identity politics campaign and retains the lion's share of evangelical support, then the victory of the Republican establishment is virtually assured.

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.

In Mississippi, where white evangelicals accounted for 80 % of the vote, Romney got 29 % evangelical support, compared with 35 % for Santorum and 32 % for Gingrich.

The problem for successive pro-GM UK governments, starting with Tony Blair's evangelical support for GM, is that consumers and the market, not politicians or their advisors, have decided what actually happens.

The survey also found that 43 percent of evangelicals supported a strong creationist view in which «God created the Earth, the universe and all life within the past 10,000 years.»

Not exact matches

In recent months, those voters have consolidated their support behind another freshman senator, Texas» Ted Cruz, whose own belief and rhetoric more closely aligns with the state's conservative strain of evangelical Christianity.

Several major evangelical figures, including Jerry Falwell Jr., and Franklin Graham, both of whom serve on Donald Trump's unofficial evangelical advisory council, have spoken in support of Moore, and, according to the latest Fox News poll, 65 percent of white evangelicals in Alabama still plan to vote for him.

Evangelical leaders continues to support Trump amid the Stormy Daniels allegations, with White among them.

And polling shows that white mainline and evangelical Protestants continue to support Trump even with the Stormy Daniels news, and do so at higher levels than other religious groups.

To ignore or excuse the Daniels saga, some evangelical Christians are even using a biblical comparison to explain their continued support for Donald Trump: the story of King David.

The story of King David, a sinner who remained beloved by God and favored by his people, has been a favorite of evangelical Christians who support Donald Trump, even during the Republican primaries.

It was heartening to see the Evangelical Alliance come out in support of No More Page 3 earlier this year, asking all member churches to do the same.

So, is the Army not the responsibility of the federal government, and wouldn't their support for a faith specific event such as this (it doesn't even cater to all Christian groups, only the evangelicals) be seen as an endorsement of evangelicalism by the federal government?

Another way of cutting the evangelical electorate is to say that 86 % supported someone other than Romney and 85 % didn't choose a Mormon.

The NAE and other evangelical elites, often speaking for churches, have pivoted into a larger menu of political issues, even though lacking unequivocal scriptural and church teaching, and, no less important for Protestants, lacking consensus or even majority support from their own claimed constituencies.

Whether you support Perry or not — this is another not - so - subtle hit piece on Evangelicals (Full disclosure: I am not one — very far from it).

It has gained the support of Girlguiding UK, Mumsnet, the Evangelical Alliance and the Royal College of Midwives.

Jones has suggested that the Faustian bargain with Trump among evangelicals represented an application of desperate measures to a patient on life support.