evangelical voters

Religious right leaders are driving people out of the pews with their hypocritical defenses of Donald Trump. Last week, Michael Cohen released what has been said to be the first of many tapes he has of private conversations with his former client, Donald Trump. But what is on this tape is already interesting enough. Despite the furious

In a small Alabama town, an evangelical congregation reckons with God, President Trump and the meaning of morality. LUVERNE, Ala. Clay Crum opened his Bible to Exodus Chapter 20 and read verse 14 one more time.“Thou shalt not commit adultery,” it said. He prayed about what he was going to do. He was the pastor

Few demographic groups consistently poll more conservatively than white evangelicals. On multiple issues, the most pro-Republican Party demographic group takes some of the most conservative positions on abortion, same-sex marriage and immigration. But another topic where white evangelicals have repeatedly expressed their conservative views is diversity. And a recent poll is the latest reminder that large numbers of white evangelicals don’t

Polls show that in a classic example of religion gone wrong, evangelicals’ slavish devotion to right wingers is the chief cause of the decline of religious belief. A recent poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute placed white evangelical approval of President Donald Trump at 75 percent, a level of adulation higher than when he was