Biden's first 100 days: What's not for evangelicals to like?
(RNS) — On Wednesday (Jan. 20), before the scattered chairs on the National Mall had even been collected, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, ominously warned his conservative Christian followers that President Joe Biden and his Democratic cronies would lead America to “new levels of radicalism” in which Christians would be persecuted and liberals would be “canceling anyone who disagrees.”
“President Biden is adamant that the hallmark of his administration will be tearing down thousands of years of human history, morality, science, and gender norms,” Perkins wrote.
Robert Jeffress, senior pastor at First Baptist Dallas and one of former President Donald Trump’s advisers, had already sounded an alarm the previous Sunday in a sermon that predicted “savage times” in which “society begins to disintegrate.” He too prepared faithful Christians for increased “persecution” from the government.