Of course, there’s been some controversy about the latest group of evangelical leaders meeting with President Trump, convened by White House faith advisor Paula White-Cain, a Pentecostal preacher. Seventeen persons, many of them clergy, are shown praying over him in a White House picture. Trump’s most supportive demographic is white evangelicals, who voted for him by 83 percent in 2024.
White-Cain is senior advisor to the White House Faith Office. Some evangelicals have complained that she is a “heretic” because of her ardent Prosperity Gospel views and allegedly heterodox views on the Trinity. But what of it? There are no religious tests for public office, and she’s one of the President’s most prominent and perhaps effective religious supporters whom he personally admires. The person who fills such an office can be of any kind of religion. She seems to suit the role the President prefers.
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