Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (C), flanked by House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, and House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, announces articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Dec 10, 2019.
“Whether Mr. Trump should be removed from office by the Senate or by popular vote next election – that is a matter of prudential judgment. That he should be removed, we believe, is not a matter of partisan loyalties but loyalty to the Creator of the Ten Commandments.”
- Mark Galli in Christianity Today, 12/19/20
As is probably true with most writers, there are times when I find picking a post topic can be difficult. This week, not so much. Very obviously, the biggest story over the past few days has been the House of Representatives vote to impeach Donald Trump. Whatever one’s opinion on the impeachment of the president, it’s a hard story to ignore.
The fact that it’s only the third time in American history that a president has been impeached is enough by itself to warrant commentary.
That the flagship publication of the American Neo-Evangelical movement, Christianity Today, jumped into the fray on the side of removing Trump from office makes an even more compelling case for Protestants to weigh in on this issue.
Seemingly designed to further rub salt in the wound of Trump’s Evangelical supporters, a recent poll by Politico/Morning Consult indicated that 43% of Evangelicals support Donald Trump’s removal from office.
So is it true, as the Christianity Today editorial and the Politico poll would have us believe, that a substantial percentage of Trump’s Evangelical base wants Trump removed from office?
I wouldn’t be so sure.
Lux Lucet 