Evangelicals and President Trump
Martyn McGeown examines the 2016 evangelical support for Donald Trump, contextualizing Christian political engagement within the broader cultural conflicts over religious freedom, abortion, and LGBT advocacy. The article presents a Reformed Christian perspective on the motivations behind evangelical voting patterns while maintaining theological neutrality on partisan politics.
Introduction In 2016, many Christians, and especially many Evangelicals, voted for Donald Trump. Of course, the SB does not make political endorsements, and it would be out of place for me, a non-American writer resident in Ireland, to write either in favor of or against Donald Trump's presidency. It is not difficult to see why many Christians voted for Trump, for perhaps the alternative was too horrifying. The last U.S. administration aggressively pushed an agenda of abortion, LGBT rights,...
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