She never used his name. Or mentioned the recording that roiled so many of his evangelical Christian supporters.
But popular evangelical speaker and author Beth Moore clearly repudiated Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s remarks about women and the Christians who have defended him in a series of tweets on Oct. 9.
“Try to absorb how acceptable the disesteem and objectifying of women has been when some Christian leaders don’t think it’s that big a deal,” Moore tweeted.
Try to absorb how acceptable the disesteem and objectifying of women has been when some Christian leaders don’t think it’s that big a deal.
— Beth Moore (@BethMooreLPM) October 9, 2016
And Moore isn’t the only prominent evangelical woman who has spoken out in the week since the release of the now-infamous “Trump tape,” a 2005 recording of Trump bragging about forcibly kissing and grabbing women and attempting sex with a married woman.
Authors Jen Hatmaker, Christine Caine, Trillia Newbell and Kay Warren; musicians Nichole Nordeman and Sara Groves; and Moody Radio host Julie Roys also have made news for their renunciations of the presidential candidate’s remarks.
“I think it took a comment from Trump that personally affected a majority of evangelicals for there to be a tipping point,” said Katelyn Beaty, editor at large of Christianity Today and author of “A Woman’s Place: A Christian Vision for Your Calling in the Office, the Home, and the World.”
“More than half of every church is women, and all those women are affected by comments about sexual assault.”
The Pew Research Center’s Religious Landscape Study backs that up: 55 percent of all evangelical Protestants are women, according to its findings.
And while “men who have a very clear institutional position of leadership” are viewed as spokespeople for evangelicalism, Beaty said, evangelicals themselves are more likely to look to writers and speakers, both men and women, as leaders.
Authors Jen Hatmaker, Christine Caine, Trillia Newbell and Kay Warren; musicians Nichole Nordeman and Sara Groves; and Moody Radio host Julie Roys also have made news for their renunciations of the presidential candidate’s remarks.
“I think it took a comment from Trump that personally affected a majority of evangelicals for there to be a tipping point,” said Katelyn Beaty, editor at large of Christianity Today and author of “A Woman’s Place: A Christian Vision for Your Calling in the Office, the Home, and the World.”
“More than half of every church is women, and all those women are affected by comments about sexual assault.”
The Pew Research Center’s Religious Landscape Study backs that up: 55 percent of all evangelical Protestants are women, according to its findings.
And while “men who have a very clear institutional position of leadership” are viewed as spokespeople for evangelicalism, Beaty said, evangelicals themselves are more likely to look to writers and speakers, both men and women, as leaders.
Twitter followings of some of most-ref’d “leaders” supporting Trump: – F Graham 678k – Dobson 41k – Perkins 26k – Falwell Jr 22k – Reed 12k
— Tyler Wigg-Stevenson (@TylerWS) October 12, 2016
Comments by Beth Moore and other evangelical women — notably, white evangelical women — who have started to speak out over the past week give “women in the pews, your average churchgoer, permission to speak out politically in a way that they didn’t feel comfortable doing before,” Beaty said.
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SOURCE: Religion News Service
Emily Miller
