Russell Moore, the top of the Southern Baptist Conference’s influential public-policy arm, is becoming a member of the requires President Trump to
Russell Moore, the top of the Southern Baptist Conference’s influential public-policy arm, is becoming a member of the requires President Trump to resign.
“There are 12 harmful days for our nation left,” Mr. Moore wrote in a Twitter publish addressed to the president on Friday morning. “May you please step down and let our nation heal?”
Mr. Moore, president of the denomination’s Ethics and Non secular Liberty Fee, has been persistently important of the president since earlier than the 2016 election.
However in the present day’s new assertion was nonetheless a exceptional step for a distinguished chief of a conservative evangelical denomination. With nearly 15 million members, the Southern Baptist Conference is the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
Southern Baptists have been deeply divided by the Trump presidency. White evangelicals voted overwhelmingly for Mr. Trump in 2016 and 2020. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., the high-profile president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., didn’t vote for Mr. Trump in 2016 however spoke publicly about his plans to vote for the president final 12 months.
As a critic of the president, Mr. Moore has been topic to dissent from an more and more influential faction in his denomination claiming that he’s out of step with rank-and-file pastors and church members. In 2017, greater than 100 Southern Baptist church buildings sad along with his management threatened to withhold funding from the denomination.
Many evangelical leaders have spoken out towards the violence in Washington this week, and known as for prayers for the nation. However fewer have particularly known as the president to process for his function in what occurred.
“You may have an ethical accountability to name on these mobs to cease this harmful and anti-constitutional anarchy,” Mr. Moore tweeted to the president on Wednesday afternoon. “Character issues,” he added.