Black Pastors’ Coalition Spurns Loeffler Campaign Ads As A ‘Broader Attack On The Black Church’

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The coalition of pastors said in the letter that they see Loeffler’s attacks on Warnock “as a broader attack on the Black Church and the faith traditions we stand for.” The group called on Loeffler to stop its attacks on the Senate candidate.

“We urge you to cease and end your false characterizations of Pastor Warnock as ‘radical’ or ‘socialist’ when there is nothing in his background, writings or sermons to suggest that those characterizations are true, especially when they are in full. context, “the letter reads.

The letter, first reported by the New York Times, comes amid a heated Senate race between Loeffler and Warnock on Jan. 5.

In recent weeks, Loeffler and Republican Party ads have largely focused on Warnock. These ads and attacks extract excerpts from sermons that Warnock delivered, including many that took place while he served as senior pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church – a historic Baptist church where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached.

An example of the Loeffler campaign attacks is the use of footage from a sermon that Warnock delivered in 2011, in which he said that “no one can serve God and the military.” Warnock defended this by telling Loeffler during a debate on December 6 that the phrase he was referring to has roots in Biblical passages.

“It was a sermon on a moral foundation for everything we do. And that when you get everything in order, it actually makes you a better soldier. It also makes you a better senator,” Warnock told Loeffler when she asked him about this . comments on the debate.

Warnock tweeted the New York Times article that appeared earlier Sunday saying, “My faith is the foundation upon which I’ve built my life. It guides my service to my community and my country. @ KLoeffler’s attacks on our faith are not only disappointing – they are also hurtful to black churches across Georgia. “
Loeffler responded via tweet, saying, “No one attacked the Black Church. We just laid out your record in your own words. Instead of playing the victim, start answering simple questions about what you said and who you associated yourself with. If you can’t – you shouldn’t run for the US Senate. “

Warnock then responded to Loeffler’s tweet with a photo of Loeffler posing for a selfie with a former KKK leader after an event in Dawsonville, Georgia two weeks ago. The back and forth continued, and Loeffler then posted a photo of Warnock listening to former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro speaking at the church where Warnock worked as a youth pastor in New York 25 years ago.

Loeffler’s campaign rejected the photo posted by the KKK leader, telling the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “ Kelly had no idea who that was, and if she did she would have immediately thrown him out because we which he had condemned in the loudest of terms. means.”

Warnock has also said he had no part in inviting Castro to the church where he worked and says he does not support what Castro stood for. “He has nothing to do with me. Never met and never invited. I believe in the American system of free enterprise,” Warnock said in The View last week.

CNN’s Paul LeBlanc contributed to this report.

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