Since the mid-1980s,
white evangelical women have shifted more Republican than white women overall, a move that has solidified as it becomes harder for pro-life women to find a place in the Democratic Party.
In last year's election, 73 percent of
white evangelical women under 35 voted for Trump compared to 60 percent of white evangelical men of the same age.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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).
The only demographics that broke for Trump more than
white evangelicals were Republican men (90 %), Republican
women (89 %), and conservatives (81 %).
A team of five established and published scholars —
women and men, black and
white — interviewed a wide variety of families, ranging in religious orientation from Jewish to African - American Pentecostal, to
white evangelical, to mainline Protestant, to Catholic.
Though
evangelical women have long been involved in political activism, including helping to lead the temperance movement and campaigning for and against
women's right to vote, seeking the
White House is a more recent and dramatic step.
The more involved
white evangelicals are with their churches, the more likely they voted for Trump, with
women who attend church more than once a week showing slightly higher level of support (87.5 %) than men (85 %).
While public support for abortion remains at a 20 - year high (57 %, according to Pew Research Center), 70 percent of
white evangelicals and 40 percent of
women overall believe it should be illegal.
According to a Pew Research Center report released last year, 40 percent of American
women oppose abortion in all or most circumstances, and
white evangelical Protestants are far more likely than any other religious group to side against it.
The
evangelical bloc went crazy when Michelle Obama wore a sleeveless dress — but now we have a First Lady in «that dump of a
White House» who posed nude while intimate with other
women and apparently used to work for an escort service.
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