Evangelicals overwhelmingly support Donald Trump. Decades ago their allegiance to Nixon was just as strong.
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President Trump claims that churches suffer from the over-regulation of their political speech. In reality, oversight is lax for religious groups and secular tax-exempt nonprofits alike.
The religious right’s leaders are old men, and the generation coming up behind them is something quite different.
Christian conservative leaders gambled on Donald Trump, and it paid off in spades.
One Nation has built on the racism of its original anti-Asian platform by linking Australia’s secular society to its Christian origins and presenting Islam as incompatible with this way of life.
Younger evangelicals have a very different view of their faith.Their perspective on issues such as immigration and economic inequality differs widely from that of the religious right.
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