Is Trump Tearing the Christian Right Apart?
WASHINGTON — Evangelical leader Michael Cromartie asserted Tuesday that it is "inexcusable" that prominent evangelical leaders like megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress and Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. have thrown the "new branding" of the Christian Right "out the window" by supporting Donald Trump for president.
Cromartie, the vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and director of its Evangelicals in Civic Life and Faith Angle Forum programs, participated in a lunch discussion at the University Club of Washington, D.C. hosted by the Institute on Religion & Democracy that focused on "evangelicals, Trump and 2016 presidential politics."
In addressing the idea that America is in the midst of a "culture war," with conservatives losing, Cromartie explained that the Christian Right has benefited over the last decade from the rise of new Christian leaders to replace other conservative leaders who did not "present" the goals of the Christian Right well in the public arena.
