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The Religious Right’s Donald Trump Dilemma

posted on January 20, 2016

Molly Ball of The Atlantic writes on the growing rift between evangelical leaders over the polarizing rhetoric of presidential candidate Donald Trump. While Jerry Falwell Jr. of Liberty University was full of praise for the Republican frontrunner before his speech to the evangelical college, Russell Moore, leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, swiftly condemned his divisive style of politics. “Trading in the gospel of Jesus Christ for political power is not liberty but slavery,” Moore wrote.

Read at The Atlantic