During an interfaith dialogue with an Islamic cleric, Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear took a swipe at conservative Evangelical voters. Greear lamented a spirit of fear driving conservative Christian political behavior.
Greear attributed Evangelical fears to the decline of shared cultural assumptions on moral issues—moral issues that were certain 50 years ago.
“As Christians in America have seen some of these things, they’ve reacted with a posture of fear, of the foundations are being shaken and our message is no longer welcome and things 50 years ago that everybody agreed about marriage, for example, is now you are ostracized if you believe that,” Greear said.