By Bill Hoffmann
The sweeping support evangelicals gave Donald Trump on Election Day was stoked by their fear that Christianity is being killed off, Johnnie Moore, a spokesman for My Faith Votes, which focuses on getting Christian Americans to the polls, tells Newsmax TV.
"America has become
an increasingly intolerant place for Christians.... The religious right is
dying, Christianity is dying," Moore said Friday to J.D. Hayworth on
"America Talks Live."
"What we've learned
is America isn't Los Angeles or New York. America is the center of the country
and the majority of the people in this country want religious freedom, they
stand up for Christian values and are unashamed of our Judeo-Christian effort.
"It's what's
happened in America: Threats to religious liberty and all these other things.
But I've got to tell you, Donald Trump deserves all the credit in the
world."
Moore, whose nonpartisan
group motivates and mobilizes the Christian vote, said he has never seen
anybody "with so much power and so much influence go to the effort he went
to build individual relationships with not dozens of significant Christian
leaders, but thousands of them."
He noted that some
pastors have the billionaire real-estate tycoon and president-elect's cell
phone number.
"[Trump] invited
criticism, he created an evangelical advisory board, he didn't even require
everyone to endorse him to be on the board because he legitimately wanted their
advice and they had an open conversation with him. And it worked in an
astonishing, astonishing way," Moore said.
"And this is as
American as anything. I mean we are a country with a Judeo-Christian
foundation. We have a congressionally-mandated National Day of Prayer. This is
something we do.
"I started getting
emails and text messages and phone calls from every direction on Election Day
[saying] ‘we're praying for America, we're praying for Mr. Trump, we're praying
for religious freedom, we're praying for all these things. And it happened. Not
only that, the turnout effort was unbelievable."
