Anne Branigin Feb. 9, 2021
Two days after Vice President Harris was sworn in as the nation’s first female vice president, Tom Buck let it out.
“I can’t imagine any truly God-fearing Israelite who would’ve wanted their daughters to view Jezebel as an inspirational role model because she was a woman in power,” tweeted Buck, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Lindale, Tex. In the days leading up the inauguration, Buck had quoted scripture about “evildoers” alongside criticism of President Biden’s stance on abortion rights.
Weeks earlier, before the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Steve Swofford, head of the First Baptist Church of Rockwall near Dallas, made a similar statement. Delivering a videotaped sermon, Swofford called Biden “cognitively dysfunctional.” “What if something happens to [Biden] and Jezebel has to take over?” Swofford asked in the sermon. “Jezebel Harris, isn’t that her name?”
Both Swofford and Buck are members of the Southern Baptist Convention, a network comprising 50,000 cooperating churches and religious institutions, according to its website. According to the Pew Research Center, it is the biggest Protestant denomination in the United States, counting 14.8 million members in 2018. Swofford serves on the SBC’s executive committee.
Calling Harris a Jezebel accomplishes multiple things: It delegitimizes her power and dehumanizes her. Read more HERE.
For a little background, read an article below:
- White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity
- American Christianity’s White-Supremacy Problem
- The Theological Roots of White Supremacy
- White American Christianity Needs to Be Honest About Its History of White Supremacy
- White Christian America Needs a Moral Awakening
- White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity (book)