Sentences with phrase «many white evangelicals»

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.

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.

But I'm just as concerned about white evangelicals who are in bed with Babylon.

PRRI's 2016 survey found that 43 percent of Americans identify as white and Christian, and only 17 percent identify as white evangelical Protestant.

First, the PRRI identifies «white evangelicals» as a subcategory of evangelicals as a whole.

White evangelicals are the most likely, with 52 percent seeing tension (they're only religious group in which the majority see a conflict between their beliefs and science).

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

YOUR OWN WORDS BETRAY YOU 8 % of white evangelical Protestants YOU SAY??

And white evangelical Protestants, the base of the Christian Right, are roughly five times more likely to agree with the Tea Party movement than to disagree with it, according to a Pew survey analysis released earlier this year.

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

White pastors and white evangelical leaders must speak prophetically about racism and help intentionally build church communities that more closely resemble the kingdom of God of Revelation 5 and 7.

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

By the 1980s, white evangelicals had coalesced around the Republican Party and its promise to restore the nation's morality.

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.

Rachel: You note that while Catholics, African Americans, Hispanics and many Mainline Protestants have continued to be involved in public education, White evangelical Christians are largely absent, until a «culture war» issue arises --(around school - led prayer, evolution, sex ed, etc.)-- and the protests begin.

An analysis of Pew's data suggests that only half of Francis's fans among white evangelicals agree with him that global warming is occuring and is a serious problem, and only one - third agree that it is caused by humans.

About one in three white evangelicals (37 %) agreed with this.

White evangelicals (64 %) are also the most ardent that abortion should be illegal in «all or most cases.»

In swing state Ohio, exit polls showed that Obama got 30 % support among white evangelicals.

Slightly more than half (54 %) of white evangelicals, according to the Pew Research Center study, favor completely overturning the 1973 Supreme Court decision that affirmed a woman's right to have an abortion.

Minority Christians and white evangelical Christians «have a very personal view of God, a God that is very active in their daily lives and very concerned about the things that matter to them,» Jones said.

Among nonwhite Christians and white evangelicals, 40 % and 38 % said yes, respectively; 29 % of Catholics and 19 % of white mainline Protestants also responded that God plays a role.

Washington (CNN)- Forty years after the Supreme Court protected abortion rights in Roe v. Wade, a new survey finds that white evangelicals remain the only major religious group that supports overturning the landmark ruling, even though most such groups find abortion morally wrong.

The opinion becomes stronger among white evangelicals who attend church weekly, 88 percent of whom said employers should be able to refuse services.

A new PRRI survey released today asked a different question, but found similar results: 73 percent of white evangelicals said Islam was at odds with American values, compared with 56 percent of all Americans.

Most white evangelicals (63 %) and black Protestants (67 %) said churches should express views on social and political matters, but fewer (37 % white evangelicals, 45 % black Protestants) thought churches should endorse candidates.

Both groups were more likely to sympathize with both sides in the birth control coverage debate (27 % white evangelicals, 38 % black Protestants).

White evangelicals are the most likely to view the change negatively (77 percent), but the majority of white mainline Protestants (66 percent), black Protestants (65 percent), and Catholics (61 percent) feel likewise.

According to a Pew Research Center survey of 1,655 registered voters released today, more than half of white evangelicals said they weren't satisfied with their ballot options (55 %), reflecting the feeling of Americans at large (58 %).

More than 3 in 4 white evangelicals like Dobson are voting Trump this November, according to the Pew Research Center.

As a whole, white evangelicals still largely oppose same sex - marriage.

Last year, a Pew survey found that 70 percent of white evangelicals believed that «Islam encourages more violence than other religions.»

In 2014, 30 percent of white evangelicals and 26 percent of black Protestants felt that way.

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

-- countless white evangelical male friends.

White evangelicals were slightly less firm on whether transgender people should be required to use the public restroom of their birth gender (69 %), though again, the opinion was stronger among weekly church attendees (76 %).

With half of voters dissatisfied with both presidential candidates, white evangelicals primarily plan to oppose Clinton.

Black Protestant voters diverge from the much larger group of white evangelicals, who make up one out of five registered voters and one out of three Republicans.

About a quarter of black Protestants (26 %) and 16 percent of white evangelicals didn't sympathize with either side.

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 %).

What should shock and shame every Christian is that only 47 % of white evangelicals believe we should follow the golden rule.

The study also found that white evangelicals who attend church overwhelmingly say that abortion (89 %) and homosexual behavior (86 %) are morally wrong.

Again, more black Protestants than white evangelicals said they could see both sides (20 % black Protestants, 12 % white evangelicals) or neither side (28 % black Protestants, 22 % white evangelicals).

«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.

On only one issue do white evangelicals think Clinton would basically do just as good a job of addressing as Trump: dealing with race relations.