Evangelical tussling over anti-Trump editorial escalates

Dec 23, 20190

Cheriss May – New York Times count

President Donald Trump with Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, Oct. 12, 2019. Christianity Today's call for Trump's removal gave voice to his evangelical critics, but they remain a minority in a political movement that Trump has reshaped in his own mold.

As the political clamor caused by a top Christian magazine's call to remove President Donald Trump from office continues to reverberate, more than 100 conservative evangelicals closed ranks further around Trump on Sunday.

In a letter to the president of Christianity Today magazine, the group of evangelicals chided Editor-in-Chief Mark Galli for penning an anti-Trump editorial, published Thursday, that they portrayed as a dig at their characters as well as the president's.

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