Can Faith-Based Organizing for Gun Control Work?
…uld have a vocal backlash if the clergy were to stand up in the pulpit and really, really talk about what happened in Roseburg or Charleston.” Fear of “people standing up and angrily denouncing the pastor” is “scaring” clergy, he added. Differences in the structure of mainline Protestant churches, compared to evangelical churches, play a role in shaping (or not) congregants’ political ideology. In mainline Protestant churches, “pastors tend to fol…
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