(Newsweek) A prominent evangelical Christian leader in the United Kingdom has called out the “absolute wedding of politics and faith” in the U.S., pointing to the tensions this caused under the leadership of former President Donald Trump.
White evangelical Christians were a key base of support for Trump in 2016, with the religious demographics’s backing of the president remaining steady throughout his tenure in the White House. Exit polls in 2016 showed that about 8 in 10 white evangelical Christians supported the former president’s first election. That trend repeated in 2020, with exit polls showing between 76 percent and 81 percent supporting Trump. Some prominent evangelical Christian leaders in the U.S. also promoted the former president’s unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud and voiced support for Republicans objecting to President Joe Biden‘s win.
Gavin Calver, CEO of the Evangelical Alliance in the U.K., discussed the tensions this caused for Christians like him across the Atlantic in an interview published by Christianity Today on Tuesday.