Evangelicals Spending $1 Million to Help Kamala Harris Beat Donald Trump

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

Source: Newsweek

A group of evangelical Christians has reportedly spent over $1 million on an ad campaign to help Vice President Kamala Harris defeat former President Donald Trump in November's election.

While a majority of evangelicals have supported Trump's candidacy in the last two presidential elections, the group Evangelicals for Harris has this year been one of the most prominent Christian groups to advocate for the vice president, who is a Baptist.

The Christian Post reported on Thursday that the group's latest ad, which features footage of the late evangelical leader Billy Graham reading a Bible verse while juxtaposed with footage of Trump, was "an over $1 million ad campaign."
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In the one-minute ad, Graham is shown reading a biblical warning to Christians that "men will become utterly self-centered and greedy for money" during the "last days," before a clip plays of Trump saying that he has been "greedy, greedy, greedy" for his "whole life."


Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/evangelicals-spending-1-million-help-kamala-harris-beat-donald-trump-1960661

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Well, at least one group has seen the light.

[3catwoman3]

1. Interesting.

I do not get the appeal of Trump to people who consider themselves followers of the teaching of historical Jesus.

[RealityCheque]

7. This will help you get a clear understanding.

Just finished reading; White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of...
by Anthea Butler

[Jack Valentino]

9. Those people have placed politics above what they claim are their religious beliefs---

which leads me to question whether there was ever any sincerity in their purported religious beliefs whatsoever---
especially when they support Donald Trump, a man who is the antithesis to everything taught in the New Testament.

[RealityCheque]

14. Unfortunately

The “theology” (sic) the white nationalist evangelicals surround themselves with, centers on picking selected scripture in dosages just enough that they can distort them to support that color and/or gender and/or ethnicity other that their own doesn’t exist or matter. I wonder how many of these “Christians” realize (or accept) that Christ and His lineage were Jews, and yes, were people that were dark, not lily white!

[UpInArms]

10. Not sure if you have seen this article

Confessions of a (Former) Christian Nationalist

Definitely worth reading

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[RealityCheque]

15. I did read this a while back..

Thank you for raising the awareness again!

[FakeNoose]

17. The smart ones can see right through Chump

Problem is ... they're surrounded by lots of dumb ones. They have to tread carefully.

[The Roux Comes First]

2. Talk About Seeing the Light!

Oh please may it be so!

[orleans]

3. their ads are pretty tame for the most part. kind of ... meh. but any little bit helps i guess

link from article
https://www.evangelicalsforharris.com/ads

[StarryNite]

4. I'm glad they're doing it but...

We know they do it and usually in support of the right wing. But is it legal?

Under the Internal Revenue Code, all section 501(c)(3) organizations are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office.

"The ban on political campaign activity by charities and churches was created by Congress more than a half century ago. The Internal Revenue Service administers the tax laws written by Congress and has enforcement authority over tax-exempt organizations. Here is some background information on the political campaign activity ban and the latest IRS enforcement statistics regarding its administration of this congressional ban.

In 1954, Congress approved an amendment by Sen. Lyndon Johnson to prohibit 501(c)(3) organizations, which includes charities and churches, from engaging in any political campaign activity. To the extent Congress has revisited the ban over the years, it has in fact strengthened the ban. The most recent change came in 1987 when Congress amended the language to clarify that the prohibition also applies to statements opposing candidates.

Currently, the law prohibits political campaign activity by charities and churches by defining a 501(c)(3) organization as one "which does not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office."

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/charities-churches-and-politics

[KS Toronado]

6. Only way to get Evangelicals to keep their political opinions

to themselves is to hit them in the pocketbook. Take away their 501(c)(3) status and tax the Heaven
out of them. Make them understand separation of Church & State.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. "Evangelicals for Harris is a project of Faith Voters for Good, a 501(c)4 organization"

https://www.evangelicalsforharris.com/about

Organizations described in IRC 501(c)(4), (c)(5), and (c)(6) may engage
in an unlimited amount of lobbying, provided that the lobbying is related to
the organization's exempt purpose.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/eotopicl03.pdf

The Sierra Club, Human Rights
Campaign, Planned Parenthood
Action Fund, and the National
Rifle Association are all
501(c)(4) organizations.

https://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/2014-conf-6c.pdf

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

13. Thanks, you said it better than me! Don't forget the White Dudes advocacy group ! nt

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

12. It's not a church, and i dont see where it says its organized as a 501(c) 3 would hope they would have

smart accountants.

[RealityCheque]

16. Not a church?

Absolutely correct. It’s a cult just like Maga.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

5. These are The Broken Clock Christians

I’m sure there are none in Texas.

[oasis]

8. Greedy, greedy, greedy. That's only half of Trump's

deplorable existence.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

18. Another part of his existence is cruelty.

He's a sadist who gets off on causing others pain.

Witness the way he humiliated Zelensky after their meeting yesterday.