A New Democrat Dark Money Group Wants Christians to Trade Biblical Truth for a Progressive Power Grab
The 2024 presidential election is just two weeks away. As millions of American Christians prepare to vote, many are asking the most familiar question: “What would Jesus do?”
According to one group known as “Evangelicals for Harris,” our Lord and Savior would most certainly mark His ballot for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
Their website boldly declares, with no hint of irony detected, that:
“No political party or leader can ever hold our full devotion. That belongs to Jesus alone. As we approach this election, our hearts are drawn to a path that reflects His teachings…This isn’t just a vote; it’s a reflection of our faith.
In this election, the choice is clear: Kamala Harris.”
Evangelicals for Harris is a non-profit subsidiary of Faith Voters, an astroturf organization that previously ran Evangelicals for Biden. There is no easily accessible public record of Faith Voters’ leadership or financial backing, but perhaps Megan Basham could do some digging.
Wherever the money is coming from, the purpose is obvious. Evangelicals for Harris was created to dupe evangelical voters—who have previously voted in overwhelming numbers for Donald Trump—into supporting the most anti-Christian candidate and platform we’ve ever seen in America. It’s a “fake” campaign trying to create the illusion of a “grassroots” effort by “good faith” evangelicals to support Kamala Harris. NPR recently promoted them because, of course, they would. The group also focuses explicitly on swing states.
While a handful of evangelical elites like Ray Ortlund have voluntarily publicly endorsed Harris, and others like the After Party have attempted to confuse and depress the evangelical vote, Evangelicals for Harris is aimed explicitly at convincing evangelicals that there are dozens of them voting for Harris.
They try to claim that Kamala Harris believes in Jesus Christ, is a deeply committed and faithful Christian, and champions biblically inspired, pro-family policies. Her record proves otherwise. As one of the most progressive politicians in America, nearly every policy decision she holds is blatantly anti-Christian. She even went so far as to tell some attendees who shouted “Jesus is Lord” at a recent campaign event that they were “at the wrong rally.”
While some individuals involved in “Evangelicals for Harris” are longtime Democrats, others are new players on the scene. All of them, however, have decided to go stumping for a politician based on professed “Christian” principles, which I’ve been told is Christian Nationalism.
But what does Harris stand for? Harris is one of the most radical Leftists to ever run for president. She advocates for price controls (a communist economic policy), abortion up to and after birth, open borders, the elimination of free speech, suppressing Christians in the public square, restricting our Second Amendment rights, and the full-scale promotion of transgenderism, sodomy, and mental illness.
Her policy platform is, in short, anti-God, anti-human, anti-family, anti-American, and yes, anti-evangelical.
So, who in the world are these people claiming to speak for “evangelicals” who support her? Let’s take a look. There are too many of these fake evangelicals to highlight in one article, so I have selected 12 representatives (or perhaps I should say “disciples”) of the movement.
12 Examples of the “Evangelicals” for Harris
1. Claude Alexander. Alexander is none other than the chairman of the board of directors for Christianity Today. That’s right. The flagship evangelical publication founded by Billy Graham and Carl F.H. Henry is currently being led by a man who is stumping for Kamala Harris. He is also on the board of InterVarsity and the chairman of the board of trustees at Gordon-Conwell Seminary. On an Evagelicals for Harris Zoom call, he said, “I believe abortion should be safe, legal, and rare in the cases of rape, incest, and threat to the life of the mother,” and “this election is a referendum on January 6.” He also said that “For at least 350 years of our 400 years of being in America, the official role of law enforcement was to keep negroes in place. That was the official role of law enforcement.”
Alexander’s involvement with Evangelicals for Harris should be a wake-up call for every conservative Christian in America. This man is a part of the leadership structure of multiple Christian institutions that many would assume are faithfully biblical and conservative Christian organizations. But here he is campaigning for the pro-abortion, pro-transgender, anti-Christian Kamala Harris. To say this is “shocking” would be an understatement—and if it is indeed shocking, you frankly haven’t been paying close enough attention to the Marxist subversion of Christianity in America.
2. Ekemini Uwan. Uwan is a graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary and co-host of InterVarsity Press’ “Truth’s Table” podcast with Christina Edmondson. She argues that “whiteness is a power structure” and that it is “rooted in plunder, in theft, in slavery, in enslavement of Africans, genocide of Native Americans.” And she has bluntly stated that she thinks “whiteness is wicked” and that “whiteness” and “white supremacy” can be used interchangeably. In other words, she is a loud and proud advocate for anti-White racism. This means we should assume she sees Kamala Harris as someone who would advance this anti-White agenda at the federal level.
3. Raymond Chang. Chang is the president of the Asian American Christian Collaborative. He is also the former Associate Chaplain of Discipleship at Wheaton College and the current senior director of the Fuller Youth Institute, an offshoot of Fuller Theological Seminary. Chang regularly attempts to position himself as nonpartisan while hobnobbing with Democrats on Capitol Hill. Chang is known for constantly attacking White evangelicals on X while claiming to be against racism.
4. Jemar Tisby. Tisby (who has pronouns in his bio on LinkedIn) is the author of The Color of Compromise and the founder of the Reformed African American Network, now known as The Witness. Tisby was once a regularly-platformed darling of “Big Eva” and was widely hailed as a gifted speaker who could help heal racial divides in the church. After “leaving loud” from the conservative Reformed world, Tisby worked alongside Ibram X. Kendi, the leading proponent of Critical Race Theory, as the “assistant director of narrative and advocacy.”
Tisby’s work divides churches along racial lines wherever it is read. He has promoted Critical Race Theory and Anti-Racism. He claims that “racism changes over time… racism never goes away; it just adapts” and that “the opposite of ‘racist’ isn’t ‘not racist.’ It is ‘anti-racist.’”
5. LaTasha Morrison. Morrison founded the very popular “Christian DEI” curriculum for church small groups called Be the Bridge, in which White people are ordered to “remain silent” for weeks during the study. She baptizes the unbiblical beliefs in DEI and the word “woke” as being “deeply connected” to the Christian faith. She has claimed that “Trump’s rhetoric is the perfect example in the dangers of white supremacy! He is dangerous. His views R not mine or representative of Jesus.” Amazingly, she also said that she sees an “attitude of repentance” in Kamala, stating on the E4H Zoom call, “We should always have an attitude of repentance, and I see that moreso in Vice President Harris.”
6. Dwight McKissic. McKissic is the senior pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Fort Worth, TX, which is a part of the Southern Baptist Convention. He once served as a trustee at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. McKissic has been an outspoken proponent of CRT and feminism in the SBC. McKissic is a notable inclusion because the SBC is, in many ways, America’s last conservative “mainline Protestant denomination.” Their statement of faith, the Baptist Faith & Message 2000, is explicitly anti-abortion and anti-homosexuality and defends biblical (natural) marriage. While many have rightly drawn attention to a dangerous “liberal shift” in the SBC over the last decade, McKissic’s support for Kamala falls well outside the orthodox boundaries of Southern Baptist commitments.
7. Patricia Ruiz-Cantu. Ruiz-Cantu is a Democrat political operative from Wisconsin and serves as an election commissioner for Milwaukee. She is radically and proudly pro-abortion. She has been a vocal proponent of feminism, Barak Obama, and Joe Biden on X. While claiming to be Christian, she has been very vocal in supporting Democrats and clearly uses the label “evangelical” to deceive people into thinking she is one of them. She views Trump’s agenda as extreme and casts his platform as racist against Latinos (even though Trump performed better with Latinos in 2106 than Romney did in 2012). She also boasts that she is bringing “congregations together” for her (progressive) political causes.
8. Lisa Sharon Harper. Harper (who has pronouns in her bio on X) is the founder of Freedom Road, which hosts “Race and Equity and boot camps.” She advocates for “anti-racism as a spiritual practice” and says that “Palestinians are the blacks of the Middle East.” She believes that Trump might be the anti-Christ. She has stated, “If you choose GOP—ANY GOP candidate in this election—you are voting for a #fascistfuture for America.” She also believes that Trump has made 100+ federal judicial appointments who are known “white supremacists.”
9. Sandra Van Opstal. Opstal has a seminary degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and is the author of The Next Worship: Glorifying God in a Diverse World, published by InterVarsity Press. She is a former “pastor” and the executive director of Chasing Justice, “a movement led by people of color to mobilize a lifestyle of faith and justice.” She encourages people to deconstruct from the Christian faith. She believes that the Trump administration has stolen children and promotes xenophobia and racism because of his immigration stances.
10. Jim Ball. Ball is a longtime progressive political and environmental activist. He was the campaign mastermind behind the attempt to lure evangelicals into supporting the radical climate change agenda through his campaign “What Would Jesus Drive?” He is the founder of Evangelicals for Harris. He argues that “Jesus was on the side of the vulnerable,” but by this, he means not politically persecuted Christians in America but illegal aliens and abortion seekers, of course. Ball was recently highlighted in Megan Basham’s book Shepherds for Sale as a radical progressive activist.
The American Conservative reminds us that Jim Ball is “well known to conservatives as the political con artist behind an Obama-era campaign to ‘green’ the churches with Sierra Club–style global warming nuttiness…Ball headed the Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN), perhaps the top proponent behind ‘creation care,’ or repackaged eco-fundamentalism with an ‘I heart Jesus’ sticker. The group’s Declaration on the Care of Creation recommended this druidic prayer for pastors: ‘We repent of the way we have polluted, distorted, or destroyed so much of the Creator’s work.'”
11. Matt Tebbe. Tebbe also has a seminary degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, is an Episcopal church priest, and is an author with InterVarsity Press. He believes that Trump is imperialistic, narcissistic, racist, fascist, and misogynistic. Tebbe has said that Trump is running on white supremacy because “that’s what galvanizes his (majority Christian) base.”
12. Joey Cochran. Cochran is another product of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Dallas Theological Seminary. He is a former professor at Wheaton who recently departed this year after he was offered a lower position than the visiting professorship he previously held. He has been Never Trump since 2016. After Roe was overturned, Cochran made a public statement in lamentation about the repeal of Roe, talking “about legislating the bodies of women and how it’s really important for us to listen to their voices because it’s their lives that are being legislated.” After Hamas terrorists attacked Israel, Cochran said, “Observing privileged white Christian men lecture the world on how just war works is an ongoing reminder of how much we have empowered white gaze and made it prevalent.”
Using Christianity as Cover for a Progressive Political Power Grab
Many other individuals are associated with the Evangelicals for Harris effort. However, I chose to focus on these 12 because they either: 1) come from (or are still associated with) what are understood to be “conservative” Christian institutions (Christianity Today, TEDS, Wheaton, the PCA, the SBC, etc.), or 2) they are highly partisan Democrat operatives using Christianity to advance their political agenda.
Other non-official “honorable mentions” could include David French, who decided to split his pants in front of the entire world in the pages of the New York Times by declaring he is voting for Kamala Harris to “save conservatism from itself.” Or the aforementioned Ray Ortlund, an “Emeritus Council member of The Gospel Coalition” who posted (and then deleted) “Never Trump. This Time Harris. Always Jesus.”
But the bottom line is this: Wherever you see an “Evangelical for Harris,” you can be confident that these actors are not “good faith” conversation partners but Leftists who have abandoned all pretense of caring about orthodox Christian morality such as defending life in the womb, the sanctity of man-woman marriage, the need to protect vulnerable children from life-destroying transgender ideology and “treatments,” parental rights in education, and the call to love our American neighbors as ourselves by securing our open border and expelling dangerous criminal illegal aliens.
To make matters worse, these “evangelicals” have sold their souls and platforms for 30 pieces of silver. Evangelicals for Harris isn’t even a “real” political movement, but just the latest manifestation of the many-headed hydra of dark money Democrat groups funding the infiltration and subversion of conservative Christians in the political arena. As The American Conservative reported:
“In order to simulate grassroots efforts, though, these organizations inflate countless more pop-up websites that give the impression of a widespread, organic movement by the American people rather than what they are: cynical D.C. politics at its worst.
Case in point: Evangelicals for Harris, which claims to represent America’s 100 million Evangelical Christians while urging them to vote for a militant secularist, abortion hard-liner, pro-crime prosecutor, and transgender cultist.”
Thus, we see these Evangelicals for Harris for who they really are: Cogs in the machine of a well-funded dark money effort to fracture the evangelical vote—the lone bulwark preventing Democrats from turning America into a socialist hell hole. Their mission is not to advance Christian love or align their political preferences with King Jesus but to ease their conscience when they vote for Kamala and trick others into doing the same. They are the progressives who hollow out our Christian religion and wear it as a skinsuit in the pursuit of political power. They’ve traded in the cross of Christ for the transgender flag and the call to defend the unborn for the satanic sacrament of abortion.
These are not non-partisans who thoughtfully engage evangelicals based on biblical principles or Christian love. Instead, they are motivated by hatred. Hatred of America. Hated of the unborn. Hatred of Whites. Hatred of Donald Trump.
And, most of all, hatred of the millions of voters who will decide that Trump is preferable to Harris: Evangelicals.
