President Trump may have called Russell Moore a “nasty guy with no heart,” but that's mild compared to the pressure the president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) has experienced recently.
Moore was vocal in his opposition to Trump during the 2016 election, and he's continued to criticize some of Trump's statements and policies. Moore's comments during the election caused a significant backlash from some Southern Baptist pastors and leaders, and the pressure hasn't subsided now that Trump is President. Over the past few weeks, a few Southern Baptist churches have announced they'll be withholding funds from the SBC's Cooperative Programs fund because of disagreements with the ERLC, and the SBC announced that they'll be studying the issue.
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