(Screenshot/YouTube/HW) Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump meets and prays with about 40 religious leaders and pastors in his Trump Tower office on Sept. 28, 2015. Among the religious leaders present were Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, Robert Jeffress, Dr. David Jeremiah, Paula White, Rabbi Kirt Schneider and Darrell Scott.
New Spirit Revival Center pastor Darrell Scott, a well-known supporter of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, raised a lot of eyebrows after he made a series of tweets claiming that black Apostolic Christians will never vote for Democtratic bet Hillary Clinton because of her gender.
On his Twitter account (@PastorDScott), Scott made a series of controversial tweets. “There are entire African American Pentecostal/Apostolic Denominations that will NEVER vote for a Woman to be President!” Scott writes.
“Some Traditional Black Apostolic Denominations do not believe Women should be in leadership, and will NEVER vote for a Woman to be President,” he continues.
“MILLIONS of Black Apostolics will not vote for a Woman President! More Blacks will vote for Trump than people think!” he says.
Despite generating a lot of angry comments, Scott did not back down from his comments and even reiterated the same in an interview with CNN on Saturday.
Scott said that because of the Apostolics’ literal interpretation of the Bible, they support the policy “that women cannot hold offices in the church.” Apostle Paul stressed that “thou shalt not suffer a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over a man,” he said.
“Now, some apply that only to the church, that within the parameters of the church a woman can’t be a bishop or a pastor, hold a position of authority, but I know some that I’ve discussed this with on a number of occasions that hold to that interpretation in all parameters of life and they’ve told me out of their mouth ‘Oh no we’ they didn’t say ‘I,’ ‘we would never vote for a woman.’ Now this is the Republican primaries. They weren’t supporting Trump but they wouldn’t vote for a woman,” he said.
