Source: Religion News Service
Emily McFarlan Miller is a national reporter for RNS based in Chicago. She covers evangelical and mainline Protestant Christianity.
(RNS) In the days after the release of the now-infamous “Trump tape,” after a number of women have come forward to claim Donald Trump assaulted them, prominent Trump backers — including his vice presidential nominee — have spoken out at Liberty University, reassuring evangelical Christians about voting for the Republican presidential nominee.
In five years, it’s not going to matter what Trump said more than a decade ago, Liberty President Jerry Falwell Jr. said.
It’s about abortion, Supreme Court judges and the Iran nuclear deal, Faith and Freedom Coalition leader Ralph Reed said.
It’s about grace and forgiveness, vice presidential nominee Mike Pence said.
But not all students at Liberty, the world’s largest Christian university, are buying it.
A group of students calling themselves Liberty United Against Trump published a statement online Wednesday (Oct. 12) saying they are disappointed in Falwell’s endorsement of Trump and tired of being associated with the candidate.
“Donald Trump does not represent our values and we want nothing to do with him,” it said.
To all politico journos who follow me:
This is the first official statement for Liberty United Against Trump.
Liberty junior Dustin Wahl told The Washington Post 1,300 students, alumni and faculty had signed the statement he authored, which says “the majority of Liberty students, faculty, and staff feel as we do.”
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