'Christianity Today' Magazine Calls for Trump's Removal from Office
December 20, 2019
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as posted by the channelA magazine for evangelical Christians, whose support for President Donald Trump has been ardent and unshakable, has called for his removal from office.
Christianity Today, which was founded by the late Rev. Billy Graham, said in an editorial published on Thursday that “the president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president’s political opponents. That is not only a violation of the Constitution; more importantly, it is profoundly immoral.”
“The reason many are not shocked about this,” the editorial added, “is that this president has dumbed down the idea of morality in his administration.”
The piece, by Mark Galli, the magazine’s editor in chief, acknowledged that evangelical Christians have “pointed to his Supreme Court nominees, his defense of religious liberty, and his stewardship of the economy, among other things, as achievements that justify their support of the president.”
But the editorial said that “none of the president’s positives can balance the moral and political danger we face under a leader of such grossly immoral character.”
Graham’s son and successor, the Rev. Franklin Graham, has been a staunch backer of Trump.
Galli, who has announced that he will retire in January, included an excerpt from a 1998 editorial on the failings of President Bill Clinton as he faced impeachment proceedings. He concluded with a poker analogy, warning that “just when we think it’s time to push all our chips to the center of the table, that’s when the whole game will come crashing down.”
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