Cracks in the Religious Conservatives voting block

Posted on: October 17, 2016 at 12:05:34 CT

White Evangelicals and Mormons have been the most reliable voting block for GOP. This elections might change things.

The Old Guard of Ralph Reed, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell Jr, and James Dotson are still in lock step with Trump. But the Mormons are not, and neither are the women pastors.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/us/donald-trump-evangelicals-republican-vote.html

Jen Hatmaker

“Trump has consistently normalized violence, sexual deviance, bigotry and hate speech,” she said in an email interview. “I wouldn’t accept this from my seventh-grade son, much less from a potential leader of the free world.”
Liberty University

Students at Liberty University in Virginia, which was founded by Falwell, started a petition on Wednesday criticizing the university’s president, Jerry Falwell Jr. for endorsing a candidate who is “actively promoting the very things that we as Christians ought to oppose,” and tarnishing the school in the process, the petition said.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/10/beth-moore-the-christian-women-speaking-out-about-trump-s-bad-news.html
Beth Moore
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/christian-women-donald-trump_us_580123d6e4b0162c043bdd7d
Dr. Laura Levens
Diana Butler Bass
Rev. Carol Howard Merritt
Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis
Dr. Serene Jones
Rev. Jennifer Crumpton
Rev. Dr. Susan Thistlethwaite
Rev. Loretta Ross
Rev. Dr. Katharine Henderson
Rev. Linda Higgins
Alice Hunt
Rev. Kimberly Rogers
Rev. Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters
Rev. Traci D. Blackmon
Rev. Karlene Clark

Utah’s Top Mormons in ‘All-Out Revolt’ Against Donald Trump
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/us/politics/utah-mormons-republicans-donald-trump.html