100 evangelical leaders buy ad to denounce Trump's refugee ban

[highplainsdem]

Source: CNN

Scores of evangelical leaders, including at least one from each state, have taken out a full-page newspaper advertisement to denounce President Donald Trump's temporary ban on refugees, urging him to reconsider his executive order and welcome people fleeing persecution and violence.

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The evangelicals' advertisement, which is slated to run in The Washington Post, is signed by 100 prominent evangelical pastors and authors, including some who rarely wade into politics.

Signees include Pastor Timothy Keller of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York, Christian author Ann Voskamp, Bill and Lynne Hybels of Willow Creek Community Church, preacher and author Max Lucado, Pastor Eugene Cho of Quest Church and Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals.

CNN obtained an early copy of the advertisement, which appears in the name of World Relief, an evangelical relief organization that has resettled thousands of refugees in the United States.

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/08/politics/evangelicals-ad-trump/index.html?sr=twCNN020817evangelicals-ad-trump0414PMVODtopLink&linkId=34260519

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Full text of the ad, with all the signees, at the link.

[Ellen Forradalom]

1. Willow Creek? Wow.

That's a mega church in deep red suburbia. A very interesting development.

[murielm99]

8. I know that church, too.

It did not sink in until I saw your post. Wow indeed!

[bucolic_frolic]

2. I never did understand

how the playboy life was overlooked by evangelicals

but then I never understand very much, such as how casino gambling
and culture are supportive of family values

[pnwmom]

3. Too bad these religious leaders didn't speak out during the primaries.

Evangelical protestants voted for DT in vast numbers.

[intheflow]

4. Many did.

But evangelical voters can really compartmentalize their so-called beliefs and their actions. Or justify his behavior to save aborted babies, as if that's all that matters in the whole wide world.

[Bayard]

5. That will raise a stink

Or will he just ignore it? I imagine there will be some major fallout if he does a nasty twitter about this block of his posse.

[Sunlei]

6. Republicans hate refugees except when they're locked up in "for profit" prisons waiting 6 years for

their chance in front of the immigration Judge.

[3_Limes]

7. This is certainly a positive development, but...

where the hell have these people been for the last 30 years? All manner of very unchristian shenanigans has been going on it GOP since the Evangelical Right got in bed w/ Regan. They're only waking up now???!!

[elmac]

9. They were busy campaigning for republiCons

they helped "bigly" to get racists and fascists elected and will continue to do so.

[babylonsister]

10. Kick! nt