Rev. Al Sharpton defended Christianity Today for its editorial supporting President Trump’s removal from office on Monday morning, while also criticizing the president’s evangelical supporters.
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sharpton said that he has talked with Christianity Today editor in chief Mark Galli, who maintains that the editorial came from a political — not a moral — perspective. That, Sharpton said, “exposes” evangelical leaders for choosing politics over what is morally right.
“I think there’s a scripture that said, ‘What profits a man to gain the world and lose his own soul?’” he said, noting that Galli is actually challenging them by asking: ‘Are you bargaining and selling your soul for some judicial appointments and some other things that the right wants but you’ve given up the soul of the church?’”
Sharpton praised the editorial for exposing evangelicals’ priorities, but elsewhere, it hasn’t been receiving such warm reception.