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"More than 60% of evangelical pastors (the vast majority of whom are men) plan to vote for a sexual predator on November 5. Roughly 80% of their congregants tell pollsters they plan to do the same. Religious people, and specifically church-attending men, are casting their ballots so that the Secretary of Education will report to someone who shouldn’t be allowed within 500 feet of a school."
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Kristin Du Mez looks at the reluctance of men in evangelical churches to speak out against sexual abuse of vulnerable people by pastors. It's almost always women who speak out about this, she notes. And she then looks at the choice of those same men to vote for a known, convicted sexual predator as president.
She writes,
"I get it. It puts church-going men in an awkward position."
#Trump #women #gender #evangelicals #SexualAbuse
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