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Survey shows two-thirds of group say their cause is winning under Trump, compared with 23% in 2016 Almost two-thirds of white evangelical Protestants in the US believe “their side” is winning politically under the Trump administration, according to a new survey. The proportion has increased steadily during Trump’s presidency. In May 2016, six months before […] More
With help from a vast evangelical network and data on almost the entire US voting population, the Christian right may have found the boost it needed By his own account, Bill Dallas grew up in an unhappy household. His mother had been sexually abused by her father and had her first pregnancy aged 17. Dallas’s […] More
The Rev Richard Bucci made comment after barring 44 pro-choice lawmakers from communion last week A Rhode Island priest who sought to ban pro-choice lawmakers from receiving communion has suggested abortion is worse than child abuse. “We are not talking about any other moral issue, where some may make it a comparison between pedophilia and […] More
Donald Trump Trump has handed his ultra-loyal evangelical base policy victories and in return they turn a blind eye to his scandals Trump supporters at a rally for evangelical Christians at the King Jesus International Ministry in Miami on 3 January 2020. Photograph: Lynne Sladky/AP Joanne Craig, a lifelong evangelical Republican and resident of Sioux […] More
Atheism ‘I prefer non-religious’: why so few US politicians come out as atheists Non-believers remain few and far between in US politics, with atheism bringing ‘the notion of being anti-religion’, the California representative Jared Huffman explains Members of the US Congress during a prayer circle on 18 June 2015 in front of the US Capitol […] More
