The Harris-Walz campaign has hired liberal activist the Rev. Jennifer Butler to be its new head of faith outreach, with Butler confirming the appointment on social media and in an interview with Religion News Service.
Butler is a longtime liberal activist who argued in 2022 that White supremacists have “hijacked” the Christian faith, and has said that faith calls us to “resist.” She is the founder of the nonprofit Faith in Public Life, which claims to advance the “moral imperative for a just, inclusive and equitable country.” She now runs a campaign seeking to root out White nationalism within the Christian faith.
“I bring a broad set of relationships that I think can help, very quickly, pull a broad coalition together,” Butler told Religion News Service (RNS)on Wednesday. “I also recognize that we’re at a pivotal moment in American democracy where faith voices for justice are needed now more than ever… The Harris-Walz campaign is …