Beto O’Rourke and Jesus
A small miracle has happened in Texas. It just might be that evangelical women are awaking from a self-induced coma over abortion.
Beto O’Rourke may have touched their hearts. The New York Times interviewed a small group of these women who were willing to to go public.
The women, who are all in their 30s, described Mr. O’Rourke as providing a stark moral contrast to Mr. Trump, whose policies and behavior they see as fundamentally anti-Christian, especially separating immigrant children from their parents at the border, banning many Muslim refugees and disrespecting women.
“I care as much about babies at the border as I do about babies in the womb,” said Tess Clarke, one of Ms. Mooney’s friends, confessing that she was “mortified” at how she used to vote, because she had only considered abortion policy. “We’ve been asleep. Now, we’ve woke up.”
Stunning, right? And then one of the women reported …
When an older white evangelical man recently told her that she couldn’t be a Christian and vote for Mr. O’Rourke, Ms. Clarke was outraged.
“I keep going back to who Jesus was when he walked on earth,” she said. “This is about proximity to people in pain.”
So maybe, just maybe, some evangelical women have truly found Jesus.