Post by Daniel on Sept 16, 2017 8:39:41 GMT -5
Trump's Evangelical Advisers Respond to Calls for Them to Abandon Him: It Would Be 'Immoral'
By Brandon Showalter , CP Reporter | Aug 18, 2017
A meme circulating on social media from a prominent black minister decries the fact that none of President Trump's evangelical advisers have abandoned him in the wake of his comments about recent racial turmoil in Charlottesville. This stands in stark contrast to notable business CEO figures who have ceased advising the president, the pastor noted.
In an Instragram post Thursday, Howard-John Wesley pastor of Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., provided a list of the members of President Trump's evangelical advisory board and the churches and institutions with which they are affiliated.
"While CEOs are walking away from Trump here are the names of his Evangelical Religious Advisory Council—men & women of God who have said nothing about his handling of Charlottesville or stepped down from his side. Is your pastor on this list? Shame when business is more righteous than church," Wesley wrote.
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But he rejected the notion that he and others are morally obligated to bail on the president.
"Back when President Obama had a similar group around him, a faith advisory group, I had some friends that were in that group, including T.D. Jakes here in Dallas," Graham said.
When President Obama decided to come out in full support of same-sex marriage despite advisers who strongly disagreed with it, "no one I know was standing up and crying out and calling for their resignation, [saying] that they should get out or get off Obama's council."
"It's hypocritical that the same people who wanted Christians there for Obama don't want Christians there for Trump," he said.
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www.christianpost.com/news/trumps-evangelical-advisers-respond-to-calls-for-them-to-abandon-him-it-would-be-immoral-196041/
By Brandon Showalter , CP Reporter | Aug 18, 2017
A meme circulating on social media from a prominent black minister decries the fact that none of President Trump's evangelical advisers have abandoned him in the wake of his comments about recent racial turmoil in Charlottesville. This stands in stark contrast to notable business CEO figures who have ceased advising the president, the pastor noted.
In an Instragram post Thursday, Howard-John Wesley pastor of Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., provided a list of the members of President Trump's evangelical advisory board and the churches and institutions with which they are affiliated.
"While CEOs are walking away from Trump here are the names of his Evangelical Religious Advisory Council—men & women of God who have said nothing about his handling of Charlottesville or stepped down from his side. Is your pastor on this list? Shame when business is more righteous than church," Wesley wrote.
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But he rejected the notion that he and others are morally obligated to bail on the president.
"Back when President Obama had a similar group around him, a faith advisory group, I had some friends that were in that group, including T.D. Jakes here in Dallas," Graham said.
When President Obama decided to come out in full support of same-sex marriage despite advisers who strongly disagreed with it, "no one I know was standing up and crying out and calling for their resignation, [saying] that they should get out or get off Obama's council."
"It's hypocritical that the same people who wanted Christians there for Obama don't want Christians there for Trump," he said.
read full article
www.christianpost.com/news/trumps-evangelical-advisers-respond-to-calls-for-them-to-abandon-him-it-would-be-immoral-196041/
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