Morality is not something that white evangelicals actually demand of their candidates, AntheaButler writes.
,” for evangelicals, is the politics of morality isn’t about their candidates’ morality. It’s about legislating their particular brand of morality for others who are outsiders to the faith.
Their Christian beliefs, while seeming rigid to outsiders, allow for those who have transgressed to seek forgiveness and say they’ve been forgiven. In the case of someone like Walker, who, the reality is, even if he admitted that he did, they would still accept him. The apparent lies are for the benefit of the media.
The support that Walker, a legendary running back at the University of Georgia, enjoys from many white politicians and churches makes him a unique figure in this morality play. By virtue of his willingness to continue to play along, to continually protest his innocence even in the face of his son Christian Walker’s tweets that he washe can present himself as the aggrieved party who’s being attacked by vicious political forces.
What his son says and what the woman who claims Herschel Walker paid for her abortion says may sound persuasive to everybody else, but to white evangelicals, these attacks are lies, sent by the father of lies, that is, the devil. According to leaked video, at afor Walker at First Baptist Church in Atlanta the day after The Daily Beast’s initial story about the abortion was published, Anthony George, the senior pastor, prayed: “We ask you to rebuke the devil … Satan will not get the victory.
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