explained, “The NAE has a policy of not becoming involved in political or sociological affairs that do not affect the function of the church or those involved in the propagation of the gospel.”111 This was false. In fact, the NAE was not just an umbrella group for white evangelical denominations, it was a lobbying arm with a history of political entanglements.112 But in the face of the most grotesque and deadly forms of racism, the nation’s leading body of white evangelicals declared its neutrality. If such a stance alienated some black evangelicals, it effectively maintained the unity of the
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