Sentences with phrase «for white evangelical»

«Religion is a proxy for trustworthiness of a candidate, especially for white evangelical voters,» said Robert P. Jones, a pollster who focuses on religion and values questions.

Health care was the No. 1 policy priority for white evangelical voters (and the American public as a whole) in the recent election, the Pew Research Center found.

After all, he said «he repented», and now, he is just working in the community as politician, and he represents more power for the White Evangelical Church.

Yes, Barack Obama is the wrong type of Christian for white evangelicals in America, they are willing to fall head over heels in love with Mitt Romney the Mormon, of which most of these churches have preached against this religious group from the inception that it's a CULT and you need to stay away from that type of doctrine.

For white evangelicals, 78 percent back Trump.

Not exact matches

Majorities of white evangelical Protestants (55 percent), white mainline Protestants (60 percent), Catholics (62 percent), minority Protestants (69 percent), and the religiously unaffiliated (64 percent) also favor a path to citizenship for immigrants currently living in the United States illegally.

Revisit King's rhetorical mastery in his «Letter From a Birmingham Jail,» if only to understand the travesty of the white evangelical embrace of Trumpism, even as this president continues to push for the building of a border wall and the banning of Muslims from entering the U.S.

Perkins's remarks reflect a wider trend among white evangelicals (81 percent of whom voted for Trump in the 2016 election): Many choose to disregard Trump's decidedly debauched, decades - old public persona to focus on his anti-LBGTQ and anti-abortion stances.

The executive order, which will be signed in the White House Rose Garden during proceedings for the National Day of Prayer, is likely to please Trump's evangelical base.

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.

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

(CNN)-- A group of more than 100 prominent Christians ranging from evangelical minister Jim Wallis on the political left to Nixon White House aide Chuck Colson on the right released a document Thursday calling for an end to the fight club tone of the national political discourse

The PRRI finds that this category now accounts for 26 percent of Americans — the same percentage that identified as white evangelicals until 2006.

Since 1981, white evangelicals have made it possible for Republicans to win control of the White House and the Congress more years than the Democwhite evangelicals have made it possible for Republicans to win control of the White House and the Congress more years than the DemocWhite House and the Congress more years than the Democrats.

We're evolving from our well - intentioned but often - terminally - short - sighted evangelical white male roots into a truly inclusive space for women, people of color, and LGBTQ voices.

According to Pew Research Center, white evangelical Christians overwhelmingly support Donald Trump for president.

(CNN)- Over the last few days I have fielded hundreds of angry e-mails from pro-Mitt Romney evangelicals about a recent Belief Blog post in which I took Billy Graham and other white evangelicals to task for turning Jesus into a water boy for the Republican Party.

There's been much speculation about whether white evangelicals, who have accounted for more than a third of Republican votes in recent elections, will turn out in force for Mitt Romney, a Mormon who for years supported abortion and gay rights.

Wheaton administrators spent several months preparing for a 2006 visit from Soulforce, a group aiming to change religious leaders» minds on gay issues that was co-founded by Mel White, who was a ghost writer for some evangelical leaders, including Pat Robertson and the late Jerry Falwell.

The moral of this story is that evangelicals in Iowa saw all of the white horses running and voted for one.

All Americans, not just Evangelicals, should be worried that Paula White is praying at the inauguration, though not for particularly religious reasons.

More than three - quarters of self - identified white evangelicals plan to vote for Donald Trump in the fall (78 %).

White evangelicals are the most ambivalent on whether employers with a religious objection should be allowed to skip providing contraception coverage for employees (53 %); weekly churchgoers felt a little more strongly (62 %).

«At that time, nearly three - quarters of white evangelical Protestant registered voters said they planned to vote for Romney, including one - quarter who «strongly» supported him.

And white evangelicals plan to overwhelmingly vote for Trump, though only 46 percent say they «strongly support» him:

About 73 percent of white evangelical voters said they would vote for Romney in 2012, while 78 percent stand behind Trump today.

But left with only Trump or Clinton as options, 93 percent of Republican or Republican - leaning white evangelicals said they will vote for Trump.

For example, 52 % of white Evangelicals say clergy contribute a lot to society, but only 28 % of Hispanic Catholics say the same.

The hypocrisy here is staggering, for as everyone knows, white evangelicals overwhelmingly support President Trump, a man who has been accused by more than twenty women of sexual assault, who is on record bragging about those assaults, and who was recently found in a Christianity Today poll to be evangelicals» «most trusted celebrity.»

The stark reality is that most white Christians, including more than 80 percent of white evangelical Christians, supported Donald Trump for president, despite his evident immorality, bigotry, and disregard for the dignity of women, (not to mention complete lack of qualification or competency).

A more interesting part of this is found in the survey cited in the article: the first choice of white evangelicals for avoiding this kind of event is teaching more morality and god.

Piper refers to Trump's «divisive rhetorical style... and his reckless Twitter form of leadership,» and says, as his third point, that a «huge percentage» of white evangelicals voted for Trump «even though the character issues were screaming to be taken more seriously» (Statistically, around 80 percent of white evangelicals voted for President Trump in the 2016 election.).

Trump has been scandal - ridden for his entire career — from alleged affairs with porn stars, to hush money payoffs, to alleged corruption in his corporate dealings — and still enjoys an approval rating of over 79 percent amongst white Evangelical Christians.

With Huckabee on the sidelines, other Republican White House hopefuls will have a better chance of picking up evangelical votes, which accounted for more than half the GOP electorate in Iowa and South Carolina in 2008, according to polling.

Black Protestants have retained the greatest number of millennials compared with Catholics, white mainliners, and white evangelicals, according to 2012 data from the Public Religion Research Institute and Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.

Over half of New Yorkers are immigrants or the children of immigrants, and the city hosts many thriving immigrant churches, Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical, Pentecostal, and charismatic, but Bishop Rimbo's focus — at least in this profile — is on the white middle class, the traditional constituency for mainline churches.

For instance, look at some of the radically different ways that white and black evangelicals will view the same cases during the whole variety of cases we've seen just in the past couple of years.

Meanwhile, NBC News took a «deep dive» through its exit polls and found that «white evangelicals lacked a distinctive leader for their cause for the first time in three election cycles.»

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 %).

«It's definitely true that in many ways, white evangelicals and black Protestants or black evangelicals, or evangelicals from other racial and ethnic minorities have a lot in common,» the Pew Research Center's associate director, Greg Smith, told NPR for its exploration of the true number of evangelical voters.

The only demographics that broke for Trump more than white evangelicals were Republican men (90 %), Republican women (89 %), and conservatives (81 %).

CNN: White House receives political cover on immigration from religious groups President Barack Obama is receiving political cover for his decision to stop deporting some young illegal immigrants from two big groups with whom his relations have been rocky: evangelical Christians and Catholics.

White evangelical Christians voted for him anyway.

Initial reports suggest that four out of five white evangelical Christians voted for Trump, continuing their pattern of support for the Republican candidate in US presidential elections since the 1980s.

Beyond the issue of civil liberties lies a more prosaic political point: the possibility for a greater alliance between African - American Christians and white evangelicals.

Among white evangelicals who voted in the election, only one - third (31 %) said they were «very satisfied» with the options for president, while 27 percent were «fairly satisfied.»

So, as we look at evangelicals by belief, not just «white evangelicals» (who are overwhelmingly for Donald Trump), we find a very different story.

More than half of white evangelicals (56 %) said they were less likely to vote for someone who had an affair, while 42 percent said they didn't care.

Pew reported that in the 2012 presidential election, 95 percent of black Protestants voted for Obama, compared with 20 percent of white evangelicals.

Fewer white evangelicals now say they would be less likely to vote for a gay or lesbian presidential candidate: 54 percent said this in 2016 vs. 71 percent in 2007.