White evangelical churches 'have become
political instruments': George W. Bush
Posted By: Ribicon, 5/6/2021 7:03:07 PM
Former President George W. Bush said Thursday that churches, and particularly the evangelical movement that powered his election victories, have become too invested in political battles. “Churches have become, particularly the White evangelical churches, have become political instruments,” Mr. Bush said in a conversation at the Bush Center about immigration and his new book of portraits. He was being prodded by Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s ethics & religious liberty commission, who wondered why some religious adherents’ support for immigration in the U.S. has flagged.(Snip) The comments were striking for a president whose 2004 reelection campaign relied in part on energizing those White
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The fork-tongued lying globalist re-emerges from his spider hole to take shots at the decent people who were tricked into voting for him. Are black churches not political? What about mosques, considering how many there are now thanks to his mass importation of Muslims. Best of all, this fraud billed himself and his wife (said to be even more conservative of the two) as pro-life and pro-real marriage, but the moment they're out of office, they announced they were pro-abortion (no surprise since federal funding for Planned Parenthood hit record highs on his watch) and fully supportive of homosexual sham marriage.