Among the conservative leaders now going after Moore is former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, himself a Southern Baptist pastor. “I am utterly stunned that Russell Moore is being paid by Southern Baptists to insult them,” Huckabee says.
The controversy over Moore’s leadership has even carried over into broader Christian circles. Janet Mefferd, a popular Christian radio broadcaster, thinks Moore unfairly criticized those evangelicals who stood by Trump in spite of his un-Christian tendencies.
“Most evangelicals that I’ve talked to became Trump voters late in the process, as their preferred candidates were not the ones who won,” Mefferd told NPR. “And I think Russell Moore has made the error of saying evangelicals who supported Trump are selling out their principles.”…
“If they succeed in ousting Russell Moore, effectively we have become the Trump Baptist Convention,” McKissic says, “alienating the majority of the population. This is so short-sighted of them.”
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