‘Devil, we’ve had enough’: Inside the Christian nationalist movement to outlaw abortion

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Donald Trump speaks at Faith and Freedom’s Road to Majority convention in Washington DC in June Meanwhile, the Christian nationalist movement – driven by a belief the US was, is, and forever should be a Christian nation, with Christianity embedded in all aspects of law and society – has a foothold in federal, state and local governments and a home within Republican politics. Trump cannot win without the evangelical vote, says Pastor Riggs “I grew up very much in a denomination that basically became a one-issue voter,” he tells The Independent’s documentary The A-Word, released this week. “And I said, ‘Sir, you’re going to be president one day.’” Pastor Paula White-Cain of StoryLife Church speaks at the Faith and Freedom conference in Washington DC on 21 June The end of constitutionally-protected abortion access was a decades-in-the-making victory for an anti-abortion movement that has shaped the modern Republican Party. Attendees wearing MAGA hats pray at the Faith and Freedom conference in Washington DC The Faith and Freedom Coalition is spending tens of millions of dollars on get-out-the-vote campaigns targeting Evangelical Christians, and the group’s founder Ralph Reed, who wrote The Christian Case for Trump, has called Trump the “most pro-life advocate we’ve ever had sitting behind the resolute desk, sitting in the Oval Office”.