This Evangelical Leader Denounced Trump. Then the Death Threats Started.

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This Evangelical Leader Denounced Trump. Then the Death Threats Started.
Jen Hatmaker is one of the most popular religious figures in America—and she is paying a steep price for speaking out for what she believes.
By TIFFANY STANLEY December 17, 2017

Last fall, Jen Hatmaker, a popular evangelical author and speaker, started getting death threats. Readers mailed back her books to her home address, but not before some burned the pages or tore them into shreds. LifeWay Christian Stores, the behemoth retailer of the Southern Baptist Convention, pulled her titles off the shelves. Hatmaker was devastated. Up until that point, she had been a wildly influential and welcome presence in the evangelical world, a Christian author whose writings made the New York Times best-seller list and whose home renovation got its own HGTV series. But then 2016 happened, and, well, of course everything changed.

During the campaign, as other white evangelicals coalesced around the Republican nominee, Hatmaker effectively joined the coterie of “Never Trump” evangelicals, telling her more than half a million Facebook followers that Donald Trump made her “sad and horrified and despondent.” After the “Access Hollywood” tape leaked and prominent evangelical men came to Trump’s defense, she tweeted: “We will not forget. Nor will we forget the Christian leaders that betrayed their sisters in Christ for power.” Then, in an interview with Religion News Service columnist Jonathan Merritt, she made what was a stunning admission for her evangelical community: She said she supported same-sex relationships.

That’s when the full weight of conservative Christian outrage crashed down on Hatmaker.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/17/is-jen-hatmaker-the-conscious-of-evangelical-christianity-216068

[Fred Sanders]

1. Really, we should just give them their Christfukuistan, no nuclear weapons, and be done with them.

[smirkymonkey]

2. Isn't is almost time for the Rapture?

It can't come soon enough for me.

[tazkcmo]

3. Too bad.

Not really. You reap what you sew. I'm sure she's been sewing hatred of the "gayz" for a while and now it's harvest time.

[workinclasszero]

4. It's helpful to read the whole article

She was afraid to be in public, and she wasn’t sleeping or eating well. “The way people spoke about us, it was as if I had never loved Jesus a day in my life,” Hatmaker recently told an audience in Dallas. The gilded auditorium was quiet, its 2,300 seats filled to capacity with nearly all women. “And I was just an ally,” she said. “Think about how our gay brothers and sisters feel.”

[tazkcmo]

5. I'm big enough to admit I am wrong.

And you are correct. I will delete my post or, if you prefer (It's your thread and thus your call), leave it along with this apology and admission of error.

I apologize to Mrs. Hatmaker for assuming the worse of her. I was wrong.

[workinclasszero]

12. NP

[onecaliberal]

6. So very Christian isnt it. Fuck those knuckle dragging pieces of shit

[colsohlibgal]

7. Just Sick Individuals

Stormtroopers in the USA, the gifts from Drumpf keep on giving.

It is a disturbing trend and what is going on here is not that different from what went on in Germany in the late 20s early 30s.

When did we start on this path?....you can trace it back to the launch of Fox News, gerrymandering, and the antiquated Electoral College.

We are in for the fight of our lives or so I fear.

[Downtown Hound]

8. While I by no means defend the criminal harassment of this woman

I'm also kind of like, "Um, we've been telling you all along that your movement is filled with unbelievably hateful, dangerous, bigoted, and outright crazy assholes. Sorry you had to learn the hard way."

Maybe next time don't spend your life earning fame and wealth by propping them up.

[Initech]

9. This story just shows you the kind of crazy assholes we're dealing with.

I have a horrible feeling that if Trump isn't elected in 2020, his supporters will go apeshit and do something drastic.

[lindysalsagal]

10. A real potus would have those threats investigated.

Instead, he'll lie and offer to hand them the gun and pay the legal fees.

[Mrs. Overall]

11. Which one of Jesus' parables is about the virtue of death threats?

[workinclasszero]

13. Republican Jesus....

The Book of Rand is full of hate and that's what they worship.