Donald Trump’s Feud With Evangelical Leader Reveals Fault Lines

At TIME, Elizabeth Dias writes that Donald Trump’s ongoing feud with Russell Moore, a prominent leader within the Southern Baptist Convention, reveals a divide within the evangelical community. While evangelical leaders largely condemn Trump’s bigoted rhetoric, a majority of voters who identify as Christian support the billionaire business mogul. “An attack on Russell Moore is an attack on the entire evangelical community,” said Samuel Rodriguez Jr., president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. “White evangelicals alone can never and will never elected Donald J. Trump. Dorothy, we are not in Kansas anymore.”

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