Before giving up the podium for Vice President Mike Pence to honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a church service this weekend, Bishop Vincent Mathews Jr. called the vice president one of the “most persecuted Christians in America.”
“One thing I love about this man of God, you know if you don’t know anything, is that he is one of the most persecuted Christians in America,” the world missions president of the predominantly African American Church of God in Christ said, according to The Christian Post. “The biggest criticism that he gets all over television and everywhere else is that he actually believes the Bible. They hate him for believing the Bible.”
Pence thanked Bishop for the introduction, calling it “overly generous.”
Though Mathews made it clear that the vice president was not making a campaign stop, Pence used the opportunity to honor Dr. King, as well as highlight the administration’s work empowering the African American community.
“As Dr. King said in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, ‘One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters they were in reality standing up for what’s best in the American dream and for the most sacred values of our Judeo-Christian heritage.’ As I stand before you today, I want to assure you that under this administration we’ve made every effort…
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