“While there are thousands of ways in which we can strongly disagree as people of faith, there are and must be breaches of contract: the defense of white supremacy, patriarchal abuse, moral bankruptcy, the crushing of human souls for proximity to power,” Jen Hatmaker, a popular podcaster and author, he said.
About five years ago, Mrs. Hatmaker broke away from evangelicalism because of her opposition to Mr. Trump and her support for gay marriage.
Moore’s decision was “a harbinger of the future,” said Hatmaker. And while Ms. Moore was a pioneer for the denomination, evangelical women have been deserting for years, she said.
“People got tired and there is no lock on the door,” she said. “God does not belong to SBC”
During the Trump era, some white evangelical women became more uncomfortable with their church’s values of sex, race and politics, especially as their denominational leaders supported Trump by separating migrant children from their parents on the border, protests across the country after the assassination of George Floyd and the #MeToo revolution.
“Black women were the first to see this, then black men and now white women are starting to wake up,” said Lisa Sharon Harper, president of FreedomRoad.us, a Christian justice group.
“They are having to believe what they are seeing,” she said of white evangelical women. “It is difficult to answer. Literally means giving up everything, literally everything. “