{"id":1741931,"date":"2022-11-17T08:18:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T13:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741931"},"modified":"2022-11-17T08:18:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T13:18:43","slug":"an-army-of-woke-preachers-praised-stacey-abrams-as-modern-day-deborah-john-the-baptist-ahead-of-second-failed-gubernatorial-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/an-army-of-woke-preachers-praised-stacey-abrams-as-modern-day-deborah-john-the-baptist-ahead-of-second-failed-gubernatorial-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"An Army Of Woke Preachers Praised Stacey Abrams As Modern-Day Deborah, John The Baptist Ahead Of Second Failed Gubernatorial Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fan-army-of-woke-preachers-praised-stacey-abrams-as-modern-day-deborah-john-the-baptist-ahead-of-second-failed-gubernatorial-bid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741931&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams welcomed support from multiple progressive preachers ahead of her second unsuccessful bid against incumbent Republican Brian Kemp.<\/p>\n<p>After narrowly defeating Abrams four years ago, Kemp was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/brian-kemp-defeats-stacey-abrams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">re-elected<\/a> by a nearly 8-point margin, significantly outperforming his rival even as other swing-state Republicans across the country experienced lackluster results. As chronicled by the account <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wokepreachertv\/status\/1484202496147046403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Woke Preacher Clips<\/a>, Abrams visited multiple churches in Georgia over the past few months as she attempted to garner grassroots support among fellow liberals, earning the endorsement of several ministers and occasionally talking from the pulpit herself.<\/p>\n<p>William Watley of Saint Philip African Methodist Episcopal Church in Atlanta, Georgia, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WokePreacherTV\/status\/1577304035153137665\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chastised men<\/a> in his congregation for \u201cnot voting as we should\u201d for Abrams. He contended that Kemp was \u201cloyal to a demon who has been openly hostile to all minorities,\u201d a reference to former President Donald Trump, and \u201cstole the last election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to do our part to make sure that Stacey Abrams is elected governor and Raphael Warnock is elected senator,\u201d he continued. \u201cAs your pastor, I ask that you listen to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The support for Abrams emerging from predominantly African-American denominations occurred even as mainstream media outlets harped about white Christian nationalism. Evangelical publications which singled out conservative-leaning ministers for purportedly mixing faith and politics by addressing abortion, transgenderism, and other matters related to public morality were comparatively silent as Abrams enjoyed explicit support from faith leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Creflo Dollar of Christian World Changers Church International in College Park, Georgia, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WokePreacherTV\/status\/1587077214314680320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">provoked applause<\/a> from his congregation when noting that Abrams was in attendance. \u201cSo you already know what to do, right?\u201d the prosperity gospel preacher added. \u201cMake it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Multiple chapel speakers at Howard University likewise encouraged students to back Abrams in her gubernatorial campaign. One <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WokePreacherTV\/status\/1589653707838615552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> that a \u201cdemon of disinformation\u201d was causing black males to support Warnock and avoid backing Abrams, while another <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WokePreacherTV\/status\/1582409849597747200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asserted<\/a> that Abrams \u201crebelled\u201d against Jim Crow in the same way that John the Baptist \u201crebelled\u201d against the Pharisees and Jesus Christ \u201crebelled\u201d against death.<\/p>\n<p>Churches are generally established as 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, which are \u201cabsolutely prohibited\u201d from \u201cdirectly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign\u201d in support of or opposition to any candidate running for \u201celective public office,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/charities-non-profits\/charitable-organizations\/the-restriction-of-political-campaign-intervention-by-section-501c3-tax-exempt-organizations#:~:text=Under%20the%20Internal%20Revenue%20Code,candidate%20for%20elective%20public%20office.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">regulations<\/a> from the Internal Revenue Service. The law includes \u201cpublic statements of position,\u201d whether verbal or written, \u201cmade on behalf of the organization,\u201d which \u201cclearly violate the prohibition against political campaign activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Abrams herself took to the pulpit, she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WokePreacherTV\/status\/1573367118288113664\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> that she was \u201crunning for this office in the legacy of Deborah,\u201d the only woman to serve as a judge over Israel. Though Abrams said that Deborah was \u201ca warrior who believed that you fight for your people,\u201d she failed to mention that Deborah admonished male military commander Barak to wage war against the Canaanite armies rather than entering into the battle herself.<\/p>\n<p>In another instance, Abrams <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WokePreacherTV\/status\/1579844587832897540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explained<\/a> her pro-abortion stance from the pulpit at another African Methodist Episcopal church. She said that women with ectopic pregnancies must \u201cwait until they\u2019re about to bleed out\u201d before a doctor can assist them, even though Georgia abortion regulations explicitly include a carveout for ectopic pregnancies.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams, speaking at Saint Mark United Methodist Church, where both of her parents once served as ministers, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WokePreacherTV\/status\/1562819757656928256\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lauded<\/a> the congregation for its \u201caffirmation\u201d of the LGBTQ movement, calling the acceptance of homosexuality \u201cthe epitome of what my faith tells me to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After her campaign failed for a second time, Abrams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/stacey-abrams-compares-her-election-defeat-to-the-apostle-pauls-suffering-in-concession-speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cited<\/a> the words of the apostle Paul recounting his suffering for the sake of the gospel. \u201cI am, too, reminded of what Scripture tells us\u2026 \u2018We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed. We are perplexed, but not in despair. Persecuted, but not forsaken. Cast down, but not destroyed.\u2019 I know the results are not what we hoped for tonight, and I understand that you are hurting and you are disappointed,\u201d she told supporters. \u201cI am, too. We may not have made it to the finish line, but we ran that race.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams welcomed support from multiple progressive preachers ahead of her second unsuccessful bid against incumbent Republican Brian Kemp. After narrowly defeating Abrams four years ago, Kemp was re-elected by a nearly 8-point margin, significantly outperforming his rival even as other swing-state Republicans across the country experienced lackluster results. As chronicled &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1741934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1741934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}