In the midst of the 2020 presidential election, church leaders across various denominations in the U.S. have expressed differing stances when it comes to abortion, The Associated Press reports.
Some leaders who are overtly against abortion are also outspoken against the political party that supports it, namely the Democratic Party.
In a viral video last month, Father James Altman of St. James the Less Catholic parish in Lacrosse, Wisconsin slammed the Democratic Party and its Catholic supporters for endorsing abortion.
“You cannot be Catholic and be a Democrat,” Altman said in the video. “Repent of your support of that party and its platform or face the fires of hell.”
Similarly, Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church of Dallas – a staunch supporter of President Trump – expressed strong remarks against Christians planning to vote for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
“As long as Joe Biden and the Democratic Party continue to support unrestricted abortion for any reason and at any stage in a pregnancy, priests and pastors like myself will have no problem saying, ‘Only Christians who have sold their soul to the devil would vote for Joe Biden,’” Jeffress asserted.
Conversely, some mainline Protestant denominations have endorsed abortion in their official positions as a matter of reproductive care.
According to a 2018 Episcopal Church
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