Pastor Robert Jeffress Warns Romney Losing Evangelical Base on Social Issues
Pastor Robert Jeffress Warns Romney Losing Evangelical Base on Social Issues
Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church in Dallas has said that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney is failing to engage the evangelical voter base by refusing to talk more on social issues.
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,” Jeffress began in an interview with CNN on Thursday. “Up to this point, the Romney strategy has been to focus on the economy. Well this isn’t working out well for him, is it? Because the economy is improving, and it fails to recognize that many of the Republican base, many of them are social conservatives who care about the economy, but we also care about the moral and spiritual deterioration of our country.”
Jeffress, who leads a 11,000-strong congregation, had previously warned Christian voters against siding with Romney, a Mormon, but subsequently conceded that he is “the lesser of two evils” compared to President Barack Obama. The pastor has urged fellow evangelicals to back the former Massachusetts governor.