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Trump¹ Presents Dilemma² For Evangelical Women, Once Reliable GOP Voters

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Donald Trump's attitude towards women has become a big issue in this election. Trump has apologized for his comments about groping women in a 2005 recording⁴, and he's denied allegations of sexual assault. But it has exposed a simmering divide in the white evangelical community, a group that's been struggling with their response to Trump from the very beginning. NPR's Sarah McCammon reports.

SARAH MCCAMMON, BYLINE⁵: White evangelicals are reliable Republican voters. They also have a long history of demanding that politicians exemplify character and morality in public life. So for many, Donald Trump presents a moral dilemma. Some male evangelical leaders were quick to accept Trump's apology for his comments. They called on voters to stay focused on defeating Hillary Clinton. For some evangelical women, like Charmaine Yoest with the pro-Trump group American Values, Trump's apology was a good place to start.

CHARMAINE YOEST: You know, I think in a situation like this, you really can't overdo⁶ talking about how much you understand how people are feeling. You know, that's part of being a leader.

MCCAMMON: But for others, like Katelyn Beaty, the responses from some evangelical leaders exposed a lack of understanding.

KATELYN BEATY: Every church in America has women members sitting in their pews every Sunday for whom this is a deeply personal issue.

MCCAMMON: Beaty is an editor at Christianity Today magazine, which recently published an editorial critical of Trump. Speaking via Skype, Beaty pointed⁸ to prominent evangelical writers like Beth Moore and Jen Hatmaker who've recently called out male leaders as too quick to dismiss the whole thing.

SUSAN FLETCHER: I have been a victim of sexual harassment⁹ in the workplace. I've had my life made a living hell by a person who is in power over me.

MCCAMMON: Susan Fletcher of Colorado Springs is in her 30s and a staff historian with the evangelical ministry¹⁰, The Navigators. Fletcher says the rhetoric¹¹ she's hearing around sexual assault is disturbing to many evangelical women she knows.

FLETCHER: You know, the traditional, like, almost patriarchy of, you know, older, white evangelical men who are supporting and endorsing¹² him - there definitely is a huge disconnect.

MCCAMMON: Christian⁷ singer-songwriter Nichole Nordeman says she usually stays out of politics. But she's felt compelled to speak up this year.

NICHOLE NORDEMAN: I find it sickening that these men can face their congregations and their families and their college campuses and feel OK about trusting Donald Trump and still somehow explain it away through the lens of the teachings of Christ. It boggles my mind. It's baffling.

MCCAMMON: Speaking on Skype, Nordeman points out that some men, like Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore and Christian writer Max Lucado have been speaking out against Trump for months. When it comes to gender¹³, Nordeman thinks evangelicalism may be at a turning point.

NORDEMAN: I keep hearing the term Xvangelical (ph) thrown around quite a bit;. Just the sense that we are trying to find new language to define us as followers¹⁴ of Christ because this old term has felt unbelievably compromised by this election and by some of the old guard in evangelical leadership.

MCCAMMON: Katelyn Beaty of Christianity Today says there's a lot at stake for the evangelical old guard and how they address issues of gender.

BEATY: They risk losing their authority and, kind of, their trust with many evangelicals in this country, especially evangelical women.

MCCAMMON: Beaty says this rift¹⁵ that's been highlighted by the politics of 2016 is likely to continue long after the campaign is over.

Sarah McCammon, NPR News.

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1 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

2 dilemma   

n.困境，进退两难的局面

参考例句：

• I am on the horns of a dilemma about the matter.这件事使我进退两难。
• He was thrown into a dilemma.他陷入困境。

3 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

4 recording   

n.录音，记录

参考例句：

• How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。

5 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

6 overdo   

vt.把...做得过头，演得过火

参考例句：

• Do not overdo your privilege of reproving me.不要过分使用责备我的特权。
• The taxi drivers' association is urging its members,who can work as many hours as they want,not to overdo it.出租车司机协会劝告那些工作时长不受限制的会员不要疲劳驾驶。

7 Christian   

adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒

参考例句：

• They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
• His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。

8 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

9 harassment   

n.骚扰，扰乱，烦恼，烦乱

参考例句：

• She often got telephone harassment at night these days.这些天她经常在夜晚受到电话骚扰。
• The company prohibits any form of harassment.公司禁止任何形式的骚扰行为。

10 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

11 rhetoric   

n.修辞学，浮夸之言语

参考例句：

• Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
• Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。

12 endorsing   

v.赞同( endorse的现在分词 )；在（尤指支票的）背面签字；在（文件的）背面写评论；在广告上说本人使用并赞同某产品

参考例句：

• Yet Communist leaders are also publicly endorsing religion in an unprecedented way. 不过，共产党领导层对宗教信仰的公开认可也是以前不曾有过的。 来自互联网
• Connecticut Independent Senator Joseph Lieberman is endorsing Republican Senator John McCain. 康涅狄格州独立派参议员约瑟夫。列波曼将会票选共和议员约翰。麦凯恩。 来自互联网

13 gender   

n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性

参考例句：

• French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
• Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

14 followers   

追随者( follower的名词复数 )； 用户； 契据的附面； 从动件

参考例句：

• the followers of Mahatma Gandhi 圣雄甘地的拥护者
• The reformer soon gathered a band of followers round him. 改革者很快就获得一群追随者支持他。

15 rift   

n.裂口，隙缝，切口；v.裂开，割开，渗入

参考例句：

• He was anxious to mend the rift between the two men.他急于弥合这两个人之间的裂痕。
• The sun appeared through a rift in the clouds.太阳从云层间隙中冒出来。