Will Evangelicals Stay With Donald Trump if Tapes Show Him Racist? Bishop Harry Jackson Responds
"Even the people who seem to have been on the surface the most faithful in terms of their biblical beliefs have not been effective at protecting our rights or advancing our agendas," he added. "In light of that I would say that I'm really looking at the platforms and what I believe are certainties of the different presidential and down-ticket campaigns."
Jackson, an adviser to the Trump campaign, noted that Trump stands for seven principles that matter most to evangelicals, among them religious freedom, Supreme Court justice choices, support of Israel, and education reform.
Meanwhile, headlines are declaring the death of the Christian Right, and surprisingly, these statements are coming from conservative evangelicals themselves.
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Writing Sunday in the Washington Post, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (SBC) president Russell Moore castigated evangelical leaders standing by Trump and said that this election has "snuffed out" the Religious Right. Their steadfast support of him, he argued, has caused incalculable damage to Christian witness in society, and younger evangelicals are manifestly unwilling to compromise the gospel in this way.
