Almost 3,000 Southern Baptist women signed a letter demanding that the 75-year-old Mr Patterson lose his job as head of a seminary. For the last 30 years, the alliance between Catholics and white evangelicals has been an enormously powerful force on the right of American politics. The economic model of American evangelical Christianity has been fantastically successful, based around marketing, merchandising and vigorous competition between preachers for congregations. But this threatens any alliance with the white evangelical movement. President Trump is forgiven all his lies and adulteries because he so clearly stands for white supremacy.

Source: The Guardian May 13, 2018 15:56 UTC