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Mark Whitlock exhorts church to &#8216;set a moral tone&#8217; during Trump Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2016\/11\/Donald-Trump2-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2016\/11\/Donald-Trump2-1920x1080.jpg 1920w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2016\/11\/Donald-Trump2-1280x720.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2016\/11\/Donald-Trump2-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Donald Trump 2\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  Donald Trump 2\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>The Orange County Register: Irvine pastor Rev. Mark Whitlock exhorts church to &#8216;set a moral tone&#8217; during Trump Presidency<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  CRCC in the News\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a href=\"mailto:crcc@usc.edu\">CRCC Staff<\/a><\/strong>\n    \n          <span class=\"post-date-field\">November 21, 2016<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--social-share \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--social-share\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n    <span class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" style=\"line-height: 32px;\">\n      <span class=\"title\">\n        Share\n      <\/span>\n                        <a class=\"a2a_button_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/#copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" 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Mark Whitlock is encouraging for faith organizations to be prominent moral voices against any future policies that could hurt marginalized communities. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/whitlock-736122-trump-says.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Orange County Register<\/a>&#8216;s front page columnist David Whiting interviewed Whitlock, executive director of the Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement and Richard Flory, CRCC&#8217;s senior director of research and evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>Whitlock is concerned about the moral implication of Trump&#8217;s rhetoric, and he discussed how communities should move forward.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whitlock&rsquo;s flock, many African American, came to his church in Irvine confused, fearful, some feeling lost. They couldn&rsquo;t understand how a man with Trump&rsquo;s background could have such a groundswell of support.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the rest of the nation, they watched as demonstrators across the country took to the streets shouting, blocking roads, holding signs, some &ndash; such as a crowd in Santa Ana &ndash; even smashing police cars.<\/p>\n<p>While he condemns violence, Whitlock understood the frustration, the anger. He was OK with the sit-down protests. &ldquo;Civil disobedience,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;gets attention.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Still, through it all, Whitlock knew that the election is history. Who voted and why is the past.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He is our president,&rdquo; Whitlock tells me after a prayer on a recent morning. &ldquo;I will support our president.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But he quickly adds, &ldquo;And I will remind him that he&rsquo;s president for <em>all<\/em> the people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The reverend, 62 years old and with a master&rsquo;s in business administration from USC, decided it is up to religious leaders to help move America forward. Equality matters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Flory confirmed that religious communities have a major impact on elections, as shown by surprising evangelical voting patterns in the recent election. Whiting quoted his OpEd in the <a href=\"\/surprised-american-evangelicals-voted-for-trump-they-have-a-history-of-racism\/\"><em>International Business Times<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&ldquo;What happened was, to me, mind-blowing,&rdquo; Flory writes. &ldquo;Despite the fact that Donald Trump holds nothing in common with evangelicals &ndash; he has been married three times, has sought out extra-marital affairs, was heard bragging about his ability to grope &#8230; has at best, a tenuous grasp of Christianity &ndash; yet, more evangelicals voted for Trump than for Mitt Romney, a committed Mormon, or George W. Bush, a committed evangelical.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Flory, in part, dismisses evangelical claims that they supported Trump because of his abortion stance. Instead, the scholar says, &ldquo;Trump has unexpectedly exposed the dark side of evangelicalism that is rooted in racism, sexism, misogyny, and homophobia.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Evangelicalism can only be understood as a white, conservative Protestant political movement.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But the movement, Flory says, has created a chasm.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Many evangelicals &ndash; both younger and older &ndash; have stopped identifying themselves as evangelicals,&rdquo; Flory says. &ldquo;While this is not an immediate result of the election, the discomfort of many &#8230; is certain to accelerate the exodus by those who neither support, nor are interested in being identified with a bigoted, aging and backward-looking religio-political movement.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Flory concludes these former evangelicals are building small churches that embrace &ldquo;the realities of the diverse world.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It is in those small churches, Whitlock says, where momentum can build for a faith-based tolerant administration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gageskidmore\/5439999805\/in\/photolist-9hHqq6-9hNvfQ-9hNwi1-9hLxAs-9hKqAn-9hKoKX-9hLvZL-9hHqDv-9hHrit-9hKraP-9hHrVT-9hKpmZ-9hNuLJ-9hLwdw-9hKoVK-9hKpTt-9v62wo-eULu15-e47mhL-e41GKR-e47k59-e41GhK-e47hqo-e41ELr-e41FPF-e47hS1-e47hxW-e47i8s-e47jUm-e47kUu-e47mPN-e47jAC-e41Jw8-rWHUgf-segL58-rWJfw5-cJjFP-e47hHh-rWKnwC-kNDYwa-9VQfNH-kNFjPw-5nrmkz-g1XPzf-g25NZH-9hgBjx-5nrmkt-4SQYDD-g25GLQ-c8zKr7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[24,14,113,10,43,25,22,29],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crcc-in-the-news","tag-black-church","tag-christianity","tag-civic-engagement","tag-evangelicalism","tag-faith-state-relations","tag-innovation-and-change","tag-politics","tag-religious-leadership"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Orange County Register: Irvine pastor Rev. 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