Perspective: What happened to U.S. evangelicals? In early America, they were our freedom fighters.
Michael Cohen, left, is a former personal lawyer for President Trump; Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University, is a vocal backer of Trump and a leader in the evangelical community. By Steven Waldman May 8 at 12:52 PM In a span of three days, Jerry Falwell Jr., a close ally of President Trump, has been in the national news twice — neither time for good reason.
Madison’s political coming of age coincided with a massive wave of persecution in his part of Virginia. Between 1760 and 1778, there were 150 major attacks against Virginia’s Baptists — whom we would now call evangelicals — many of them carried out by leaders of local churches associated with the Church of England, or Anglican parishes.The Rev. John Waller was preaching in Caroline County, Va.
[The alleged synagogue shooter was a churchgoer who talked Christian theology, raising tough questions for evangelical pastors] Because Madison needed their votes, he made perhaps the most consequential campaign promise in American history. He promised the evangelicals that, if elected, he would propose a Bill of Rights that safeguarded religious liberty. This satisfied them. Madison won his election, 1,308 to 972, as a result of lopsided majorities in the heavily Baptist areas of Culpeper and Orange counties.
Another way evangelicals influenced religious freedom involved Rep. John Armor Bingham — now considered by scholars to be among the nation’s “second Founding Fathers.” He’s called that because he was the primary author of the 14th Amendment, passed right after the Civil War, which decrees that the Bill of Rights protects Americans from oppressive actions not only of the federal government but also of state and local lawmakers.
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