VP Pence: When Push Comes to Pulpit...
Vice President Mike Pence, who identifies himself first as an evangelical Christian, spoke to the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in Dallas this week. The Family Research Council reports on the event:
"One of the first promises Donald Trump made to evangelicals
as a candidate was to the pastors of America: 'We're going to get rid of that
[Johnson amendment],' he promised. Now, a year and a half into his
administration, it's somewhat fitting that he and Vice President Mike Pence have
made a priority of keeping their dialogue with churches going.
Today, Vice President Pence did that in spectacular fashion
at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). The largest
evangelical denomination in America, the SBC hosted as many as 11,000 delegates
in Texas. And to them, the administration's second-in-command had a simple
message: We 'will always stand with you.'
The vice president took the opportunity to talk
about the progress the Trump administration has made on issues of
importance to the SBC – and evangelicals in general: protecting life,
preserving religious liberty, helping the persecuted church, standing with
Israel. But those gains, he reminded them, can't be sustained without engaged,
churchgoing Americans."