Evangelical mag calls out Trump
A prominent Christian magazine yesterday called US President Donald Trump’s conduct “profoundly immoral” and said he should be removed from office.
Up to a quarter of US voters identify as evangelical Christians and have been a foundation of Trump’s support — he took more than 80 per cent of the evangelical vote in the 2016 election. Leading figures in the movement have stood by him, as he appointed religious conservative judges to the US Supreme Court.
But in an editorial supporting impeachment, Christianity Today, founded in 1956 by the late Billy Graham, said: “The facts in this instance are unambiguous: the president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president’s political opponents. That is not only a violation of the constitution; more importantly, it is profoundly immoral.”
Trump, it said, was “morally lost and confused”.
The Illinois-based publication, which has 80,000 print subscribers, has been described as the “flagship magazine” of evangelicalism.
On Twitter, Trump responded it was a “far-Left magazine” which “hasn’t been involved with the Billy Graham family for many years”. He added: “No president has done more for the evangelical community.”
Trump was backed by Franklin Graham, Billy Graham’s son and himself a prominent evangelist. He said his father, who died last year, would have been “very embarrassed” the magazine had become a “Leftist elite within the evangelical community”.
That is not only a violation of the constitution . . . it is profoundly immoral. Christianity Today