FOX News Pastor: Democrats Are "Increasingly Becoming a Godless Party"

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FOX News Pastor: Democrats Are “Increasingly Becoming a Godless Party”
By Hemant Mehta, December 10, 2018

Tom Perez, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, recently complained to an audience about how conservatives were often swayed by their pastors, making it more difficult for Democrats to make any case for their side.

He’s right about that. If you’re not guided by reason, then reason will never persuade you. If you believe same-sex marriage is wrong because God forbids it, you’re not about to change your mind based on what other people say. It’s why a pastor ranting about abortion will persuade more evangelicals to vote for Republicans even if Democratic policies in favor of comprehensive sex education and free/accessible contraception lower the abortion rates.

So Perez was making a solid point. Democrats have a huge hurdle to overcome if they want to appeal to those voters.

Over the weekend, Pastor Robert Jeffress, one of Donald Trump‘s most vocal white evangelical supporters, made an appearance on FOX News to talk about those remarks. And Jeffress, true to form, claimed Perez’s words were some sort of attack on Christians because Democrats were obviously “godless.”

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