CNN correspondent Donie O’Sullivan stunned anchor Sara Sidner with a package that included a pro-Trump pastor ranting about Democratic parishioners, telling the “demons” to “get out” of his congregation.
Pastor Greg Locke — a MAGA minister with a penchant for viral rants, sometimes literally — proclaimed in one sermon that “You cannot be a Christian and vote Democrat in this nation,” and told anyone who voted for Democrats to “Get out, you demon!”
On Friday’s edition of CNN News Central, O’Sullivan included that sermon in a package about Christian nationalism and former President Donald Trump. He also interviewed a group of pastors sounding the alarm about the trend, warning “we are at risk of terrible violence, increasing violence in this country”:
DONIE O’SULLIVAN: Not everyone is open to accepting facts. Some, including church leaders, are pushing lies about the election.
PASTOR GREG LOCKE: I’m at a place right now, if you vote Democrat, I don’t even want you around this church! You can get out! You get out, you demon! You can get out, you baby-butchering election thief! You cannot be a Christian and vote Democrat in this nation!
DONIE O’SULLIVAN: And that’s — that’s what worries these pastors.
REV. DENNIS JACOBSEN: I think we are at risk of terrible violence, increasing violence in this country. And that’s the rhetoric that we’re hearing, a lot from loud mouth MAGA preachers, is leaning us towards the possibility of no holds barred warfare. We really do think that democracy is at stake in this election.
DONIE O’SULLIVAN: And, Sara, look, obviously there’s nothing wrong with being a Christian. Nothing wrong with being a patriot.
But really, what these pastors are concerned about is that, politicians, Trump, some of his prominent supporters, as you saw there, are weaponizing people’s Christianity and people’s patriotism in a way, that can promote discrimination, that can promote the…
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