{"id":23124,"date":"2024-06-27T11:46:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=23124"},"modified":"2024-06-27T11:46:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:46:40","slug":"with-the-election-looming-trump-warns-christians-cannot-afford-to-sit-on-the-sidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2024\/06\/with-the-election-looming-trump-warns-christians-cannot-afford-to-sit-on-the-sidelines","title":{"rendered":"With the Election Looming, Trump Warns \u201cChristians cannot afford to sit on the sidelines\u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former president Donald Trump called on the faith of his constituents while speaking at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference in Washington, DC. \u201cAs you know, the radical left is trying to shame Christians, silence you, demoralize you, and they want to keep you out of politics. They don\u2019t want you to vote. That\u2019s why you have to vote. If Joe Biden gets back in, Christianity will not be safe,\u201d Trump said.<\/a> \u201cIn a nation with no borders, no laws, no freedom, no future. Not going to be safe. You\u2019re not going to be safe as a person, and your religion certainly will be, I think, in tatters.\u201d He warned his listeners that they might even be arrested for their religious beliefs.<\/p>\n

He addressed believers who have urged him to take a stricter stance on a federal abortion ban. He has often touted the overturning of Roe v. Wade as one of his presidential accomplishments but has been less hawkish on an outright ban. He stated he supports abortion exceptions in certain cases, such as in the cases of rape, incest, and danger to the life of the mother. \u201cI think most people do, actually, but some people don\u2019t. You have to go with your heart, but you have to also remember, you have to get elected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He warned that the Biden administration would continue to target Christians because, \u201cthey know that our allegiance is not to them, our allegiance is to our country and our allegiance is to our Creator. We do not answer to the bureaucrats in Washington; we answer to God in Heaven.\u201d He also referenced the arrest of Paulette Harlow<\/a>, a 75-year-old pro-life activist who was arrested while protesting outside an abortion clinic. Her supporters insist that she was arrested for singing outside the clinic while prosecutors insist it was because she was blocking access to the clinic. She was sentenced to 24 months in prison in May.<\/p>\n

Trump also cheered the recently passed Louisiana legislation that mandates the Ten Commandments being displayed in public schools. \u201cWho likes the Ten Commandments, by the way, going up in the schools?\u201d he asked. \u201cHas anyone read the \u2018Thou shalt not steal\u2019? I mean, has anybody read this incredible stuff? It\u2019s just incredible They don\u2019t want it to go up. It\u2019s a crazy world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former president Donald Trump called on the faith of his constituents while speaking at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference in Washington, DC. \u201cAs you know, the radical left is trying to shame Christians, silence you, demoralize you, and they want to keep you out of politics. 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