{"id":1844,"date":"2026-07-30T16:11:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2026-07-30T16:11:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:11:23","slug":"meet-the-christian-pastors-who-endorsed-pro-trans-muslim-abdul-el-sayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1844","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Christian Pastors Who Endorsed Pro-Trans Muslim Abdul El-Sayed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abdul El-Sayed has campaigned on reaching across the religious divide with an appeal to Christians and Muslims alike, and he boasts that over two dozen Christian leaders back his bid to replace Michigan Senator Gary Peters. Those leaders include a pastor who suggested conservative activist Charlie Kirk deserved to be shot and the senior pastor of a church that hosted a drag event for kids.<\/p>

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El-Sayed, who once hoped to be America\u2019s first Muslim governor, is locked in a competitive primary race with Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens. While many of his positions on topics from abortion to so-called \u201cgender-affirming care\u201d directly conflict with the Bible, that has not deterred some Christians from backing his campaign.<\/p>

Included among El-Sayed\u2019s supporters is Larry Davis, the pastor of Christian Tabernacle Baptist in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Davis, who believes that President Donald Trump faked the multiple assassination attempts, had no kind words for Charlie Kirk after his murder.<\/p>

\u201cHe is being held as a hero. We shouldn\u2019t be happy that he got killed. But we shall embrace that you REAP what you SOW,\u201d Davis posted on Facebook alongside an anti-Kirk meme the day after the popular conservative activist was gunned down at an event at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025.<\/p>

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In another post, Davis shared a clip of Kirk criticizing DEI and asked, \u201cWould you give a racist out of his own mouth the medal of freedom.\u201d<\/p>

On September 19, the pastor again spread his message that Kirk reaped what he sowed.<\/p>

\u201cNo man should take it on himself to take the life of another. But the scriptures says be not deceived God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man show [sic] that shall he also reap,\u201d Davis said alongside an AI-generated image of Kirk and Jesus Christ.<\/p>

The Daily Wire sent a message to Davis to ask about his support for El-Sayed. His church, which has no listed email address, did not answer multiple phone calls.<\/p>

Pastor Terrance Johnson, another religious leader who endorsed El-Sayed, shared a similar animus toward Kirk. He suggested that he was not sad about Kirk\u2019s assassination because he was a \u201cracist bigot.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cYou will accept a black man refusing to mourn his own father but you wil [sic] not accept a black man refusing to mourn a racist bigot because\u2026.. We all know why,\u201d Johnson posted in a long screed quoting Tupac song lyrics a day after Kirk\u2019s killing.<\/p>

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When someone commented on his post, \u201cis this the heart of Christ,\u201d Johnson responded by saying, \u201cwhat is the heart of Christ.\u201d<\/p>

In another post, Johnson claimed that ICE was equivalent to the Ku Klux Klan.<\/p>

\u201cSo ICE is the KKK rebranded. Still wearing mask it\u2019s just that the badges are now out instead of being hid under the sheets,\u201d he said.<\/p>

Johnson\u2019s Church, Second Missionary Baptist Church in Monroe, Michigan, recently hosted El-Sayed for an event. In a Facebook post, the church said the event was for the Democrat to share \u201cwhy he\u2019s running for office.\u201d<\/p>

During the appearance, El-Sayed claimed to attendees that he was the only candidate who could \u201cguarantee you healthcare\u201d and attacked America\u2019s history as \u201csordid,\u201d according to a video posted by the church.<\/p>

\u201cWe just commemorated 250 years. And I know there\u2019s a lot of sordid history in those 250 years, but I also know what my life would have been had I been born in a place that I was supposed to be born. But for an accident of history, I get born here,\u201d El-Sayed said. \u201cAre we willing to put ourselves back in to correct that system so that the next 250 look a lot better than the last ones did?\u201d<\/p>

\u201cIt is the many versus their money. We got a choice. Do we want them to come in and buy an election?,\u201d he added.<\/p>

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\u201cSecond Missionary Baptist Church of Monroe does not endorse or oppose any political candidate or party,\u201d the church posted on July 17. \u201cOur prayer is that every voter takes time to seek wisdom, research the candidates, and make an informed decision at the ballot box.\u201d<\/p>

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Another pastor backing El-Sayed\u2019s campaign is the ultra-woke Nathan Dannison of Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, which recently hosted a \u201cqueer prom\u201d for adults and youth that featured \u201c12 drag performances.\u201d<\/p>

Dannison, who recently said that psychedelics have been part of his \u201cspiritual discipline\u201d for the last twenty years, said that abolishing ICE is a baseline position any candidate supported by him needs to take.\u00a0In recent Facebook posts, Dannison has defended El-Sayed over his strong anti-Israel positions.<\/p>

Dannison said that he\u2019s \u201cpretty horrified by a lot of the anti-Abdul posts I\u2019m seeing from center-left Michigan voters that are obviously mashing the \u2018fwd:fwd:fwd\u2019 button or the copy-pasting ad copy from astro-turfed emails\/sms\/etc from defense lobbyists.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cDr. El-Sayed is not antisemitic. To the contrary, one of the reasons I support him is because he understands the real and present dangers facing Jewish Americans who are being blamed for foreign policies and wars that have absolutely nothing to do with their religion and history in this country,\u201d he added.<\/p>

Fountain Street Church raises funds for women to end the lives of their unborn children and says it is \u201cproud to be the State\u2019s longest standing abortion fund.\u201d<\/p>

Other pastors backing El-Sayed\u2019s campaign included Detroit Rev. Horace Sheffield III of New Destiny Christian Fellowship and Rev. Keith Whitney of Sanctuary Fellowship Baptist Church.<\/p>

Sheffield, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2014 and appeared in the anti-white documentary \u201cWhite With Fear,\u201d sells anti-Trump t-shirts on his ministry website that say \u201cI will take Biden in a wheel chair over Trump standing up.\u201d<\/p>

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Whitney is the president of Moses Action, an advocacy group that pushes for left-wing criminal justice reform and supported a ballot initiative to make the right to end the life of your unborn child a constitutional right.<\/p>

\u201cThroughout black history, government officials \u2014 most of them white men \u2014 have made decisions about black women\u2019s bodies and health that have been harmful, traumatizing, and often deadly. Granting our current lawmakers the ability to dictate personal health decisions feels like a dangerous step backwards,\u201d the group said in a statement.<\/p>

Several of the pastors listed on El-Sayed\u2019s campaign website, including Bishop Alan Evans and Pastor Parris McMurray, appear to be affiliated with the Church of God In Christ, Inc. The denomination a \u201csanctity of life\u201d resolution in 2019 that \u201cabortion is the killing of the innocent\u201d and describes abortion as \u201cgenocide.\u201d<\/p>

The denomination did not respond to questions about its pastors endorsing the pro-abortion El-Sayed.<\/p>

El-Sayed wants to codify the right to an abortion in federal law and suggested he will fight back on efforts to crackdown on abortion pills.<\/p>

\u201cEveryone has the right to make personal decisions about their healthcare,\u201d his campaign website says. \u201cThat includes reproductive and gender-affirming care. I\u2019ll fight to codify the rights once protected by Roe <\/em>v. Wade<\/em> into federal law.\u201d<\/p>

Earlier this month, El-Sayed earned the endorsement of the Council of Baptist Pastors of Detroit and Vicinity, which said it supported his emphasis on \u201caffordability\u201d and \u201chuman dignity.\u201d It did not respond to questions about El-Sayed leftist advocacy on social issues.<\/p>

\u201cPastors attend to their communities in the best and worst of times, and their support is about trusting me to show up in those moments with them,\u201d El-Sayed said. \u201cTogether, we\u2019re building a Michigan that brings people together across faiths, regions, and backgrounds in the work of offering dignity, opportunity, and respect for every Michigander.\u201d<\/p>

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The Democratic primary is on August 4.<\/p><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abdul El-Sayed has campaigned on reaching across the religious divide with an appeal to Christians and Muslims alike, and he boasts that over two dozen Christian leaders back his bid to replace Michigan Senator Gary Peters. Those leaders include a pastor who suggested conservative activist Charlie Kirk deserved to be shot and the senior pastor of a church that hosted a drag event for kids.El-Sayed, who once hoped to be America\u2019s first Muslim governor, is locked in a competitive primary race with Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens. While many of his positions on topics from abortion to so-called \u201cgender-affirming care\u201d directly conflict with the Bible, that has not deterred some Christians from backing his campaign.Included among El-Sayed\u2019s supporters is Larry Davis, the pastor of Christian Tabernacle Baptist in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Davis, who believes that President Donald Trump faked the multiple assassination attempts, had no kind words for Charlie Kirk after his murder.\u201cHe is being held as a hero. We shouldn\u2019t be happy that he got killed. But we shall embrace that you REAP what you SOW,\u201d Davis posted on Facebook alongside an anti-Kirk meme the day after the popular conservative activist was gunned down at an event at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025.Larry Davis Facebook.In another post, Davis shared a clip of Kirk criticizing DEI and asked, \u201cWould you give a racist out of his own mouth the medal of freedom.\u201dOn September 19, the pastor again spread his message that Kirk reaped what he sowed.\u201cNo man should take it on himself to take the life of another. But the scriptures says be not deceived God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man show [sic] that shall he also reap,\u201d Davis said alongside an AI-generated image of Kirk and Jesus Christ.The Daily Wire sent a message to Davis to ask about his support for El-Sayed. His church, which has no listed email address, did not answer multiple phone calls.Pastor Terrance Johnson, another religious leader who endorsed El-Sayed, shared a similar animus toward Kirk. He suggested that he was not sad about Kirk\u2019s assassination because he was a \u201cracist bigot.\u201d\u201cYou will accept a black man refusing to mourn his own father but you wil [sic] not accept a black man refusing to mourn a racist bigot because\u2026.. We all know why,\u201d Johnson posted in a long screed quoting Tupac song lyrics a day after Kirk\u2019s killing.When someone commented on his post, \u201cis this the heart of Christ,\u201d Johnson responded by saying, \u201cwhat is the heart of Christ.\u201dIn another post, Johnson claimed that ICE was equivalent to the Ku Klux Klan.\u201cSo ICE is the KKK rebranded. Still wearing mask it\u2019s just that the badges are now out instead of being hid under the sheets,\u201d he said.Johnson\u2019s Church, Second Missionary Baptist Church in Monroe, Michigan, recently hosted El-Sayed for an event. In a Facebook post, the church said the event was for the Democrat to share \u201cwhy he\u2019s running for office.\u201dDuring the appearance, El-Sayed claimed to attendees that he was the only candidate who could \u201cguarantee you healthcare\u201d and attacked America\u2019s history as \u201csordid,\u201d according to a video posted by the church.\u201cWe just commemorated 250 years. And I know there\u2019s a lot of sordid history in those 250 years, but I also know what my life would have been had I been born in a place that I was supposed to be born. But for an accident of history, I get born here,\u201d El-Sayed said. \u201cAre we willing to put ourselves back in to correct that system so that the next 250 look a lot better than the last ones did?\u201d\u201cIt is the many versus their money. We got a choice. Do we want them to come in and buy an election?,\u201d he added.Facebook: Second Missionary Baptist Church.\u201cSecond Missionary Baptist Church of Monroe does not endorse or oppose any political candidate or party,\u201d the church posted on July 17. \u201cOur prayer is that every voter takes time to seek wisdom, research the candidates, and make an informed decision at the ballot box.\u201dAnother pastor backing El-Sayed\u2019s campaign is the ultra-woke Nathan Dannison of Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, which recently hosted a \u201cqueer prom\u201d for adults and youth that featured \u201c12 drag performances.\u201dDannison, who recently said that psychedelics have been part of his \u201cspiritual discipline\u201d for the last twenty years, said that abolishing ICE is a baseline position any candidate supported by him needs to take.\u00a0In recent Facebook posts, Dannison has defended El-Sayed over his strong anti-Israel positions.Dannison said that he\u2019s \u201cpretty horrified by a lot of the anti-Abdul posts I\u2019m seeing from center-left Michigan voters that are obviously mashing the \u2018fwd:fwd:fwd\u2019 button or the copy-pasting ad copy from astro-turfed emails\/sms\/etc from defense lobbyists.\u201d\u201cDr. El-Sayed is not antisemitic. To the contrary, one of the reasons I support him is because he understands the real and present dangers facing Jewish Americans who are being blamed for foreign policies and wars that have absolutely nothing to do with their religion and history in this country,\u201d he added.Fountain Street Church raises funds for women to end the lives of their unborn children and says it is \u201cproud to be the State\u2019s longest standing abortion fund.\u201dOther pastors backing El-Sayed\u2019s campaign included Detroit Rev. Horace Sheffield III of New Destiny Christian Fellowship and Rev. Keith Whitney of Sanctuary Fellowship Baptist Church.Sheffield, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2014 and appeared in the anti-white documentary \u201cWhite With Fear,\u201d sells anti-Trump t-shirts on his ministry website that say \u201cI will take Biden in a wheel chair over Trump standing up.\u201dWhitney is the president of Moses Action, an advocacy group that pushes for left-wing criminal justice reform and supported a ballot initiative to make the right to end the life of your unborn child a constitutional right.\u201cThroughout black history, government officials \u2014 most of them white men \u2014 have made decisions about black women\u2019s bodies and health that have been harmful, traumatizing, and often deadly. Granting our current lawmakers the ability to dictate personal health decisions feels like a dangerous step backwards,\u201d the group said in a statement.Several of the pastors listed on El-Sayed\u2019s campaign website, including Bishop Alan Evans and Pastor Parris McMurray, appear to be affiliated with the Church of God In Christ, Inc. The denomination adopted a \u201csanctity of life\u201d resolution in 2019 that \u201cabortion is the killing of the innocent\u201d and describes abortion as \u201cgenocide.\u201dThe denomination did not respond to questions about its pastors endorsing the pro-abortion El-Sayed.El-Sayed wants to codify the right to an abortion in federal law and suggested he will fight back on efforts to crackdown on abortion pills.\u201cEveryone has the right to make personal decisions about their healthcare,\u201d his campaign website says. \u201cThat includes reproductive and gender-affirming care. I\u2019ll fight to codify the rights once protected by Roe v. Wade into federal law.\u201dEarlier this month, El-Sayed earned the endorsement of the Council of Baptist Pastors of Detroit and Vicinity, which said it supported his emphasis on \u201caffordability\u201d and \u201chuman dignity.\u201d It did not respond to questions about El-Sayed leftist advocacy on social issues.\u201cPastors attend to their communities in the best and worst of times, and their support is about trusting me to show up in those moments with them,\u201d El-Sayed said. \u201cTogether, we\u2019re building a Michigan that brings people together across faiths, regions, and backgrounds in the work of offering dignity, opportunity, and respect for every Michigander.\u201dThe Democratic primary is on August 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investigation"],"yoast_head":"\nMeet The Christian Pastors Who Endorsed Pro-Trans Muslim Abdul El-Sayed - Blue Route Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1844\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meet The Christian Pastors Who Endorsed Pro-Trans Muslim Abdul El-Sayed - Blue Route Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Abdul El-Sayed has campaigned on reaching across the religious divide with an appeal to Christians and Muslims alike, and he boasts that over two dozen Christian leaders back his bid to replace Michigan Senator Gary Peters. Those leaders include a pastor who suggested conservative activist Charlie Kirk deserved to be shot and the senior pastor of a church that hosted a drag event for kids.El-Sayed, who once hoped to be America\u2019s first Muslim governor, is locked in a competitive primary race with Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens. While many of his positions on topics from abortion to so-called \u201cgender-affirming care\u201d directly conflict with the Bible, that has not deterred some Christians from backing his campaign.Included among El-Sayed\u2019s supporters is Larry Davis, the pastor of Christian Tabernacle Baptist in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Davis, who believes that President Donald Trump faked the multiple assassination attempts, had no kind words for Charlie Kirk after his murder.\u201cHe is being held as a hero. We shouldn\u2019t be happy that he got killed. But we shall embrace that you REAP what you SOW,\u201d Davis posted on Facebook alongside an anti-Kirk meme the day after the popular conservative activist was gunned down at an event at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025.Larry Davis Facebook.In another post, Davis shared a clip of Kirk criticizing DEI and asked, \u201cWould you give a racist out of his own mouth the medal of freedom.\u201dOn September 19, the pastor again spread his message that Kirk reaped what he sowed.\u201cNo man should take it on himself to take the life of another. But the scriptures says be not deceived God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man show [sic] that shall he also reap,\u201d Davis said alongside an AI-generated image of Kirk and Jesus Christ.The Daily Wire sent a message to Davis to ask about his support for El-Sayed. His church, which has no listed email address, did not answer multiple phone calls.Pastor Terrance Johnson, another religious leader who endorsed El-Sayed, shared a similar animus toward Kirk. He suggested that he was not sad about Kirk\u2019s assassination because he was a \u201cracist bigot.\u201d\u201cYou will accept a black man refusing to mourn his own father but you wil [sic] not accept a black man refusing to mourn a racist bigot because\u2026.. We all know why,\u201d Johnson posted in a long screed quoting Tupac song lyrics a day after Kirk\u2019s killing.When someone commented on his post, \u201cis this the heart of Christ,\u201d Johnson responded by saying, \u201cwhat is the heart of Christ.\u201dIn another post, Johnson claimed that ICE was equivalent to the Ku Klux Klan.\u201cSo ICE is the KKK rebranded. Still wearing mask it\u2019s just that the badges are now out instead of being hid under the sheets,\u201d he said.Johnson\u2019s Church, Second Missionary Baptist Church in Monroe, Michigan, recently hosted El-Sayed for an event. In a Facebook post, the church said the event was for the Democrat to share \u201cwhy he\u2019s running for office.\u201dDuring the appearance, El-Sayed claimed to attendees that he was the only candidate who could \u201cguarantee you healthcare\u201d and attacked America\u2019s history as \u201csordid,\u201d according to a video posted by the church.\u201cWe just commemorated 250 years. And I know there\u2019s a lot of sordid history in those 250 years, but I also know what my life would have been had I been born in a place that I was supposed to be born. But for an accident of history, I get born here,\u201d El-Sayed said. \u201cAre we willing to put ourselves back in to correct that system so that the next 250 look a lot better than the last ones did?\u201d\u201cIt is the many versus their money. We got a choice. Do we want them to come in and buy an election?,\u201d he added.Facebook: Second Missionary Baptist Church.\u201cSecond Missionary Baptist Church of Monroe does not endorse or oppose any political candidate or party,\u201d the church posted on July 17. \u201cOur prayer is that every voter takes time to seek wisdom, research the candidates, and make an informed decision at the ballot box.\u201dAnother pastor backing El-Sayed\u2019s campaign is the ultra-woke Nathan Dannison of Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, which recently hosted a \u201cqueer prom\u201d for adults and youth that featured \u201c12 drag performances.\u201dDannison, who recently said that psychedelics have been part of his \u201cspiritual discipline\u201d for the last twenty years, said that abolishing ICE is a baseline position any candidate supported by him needs to take.\u00a0In recent Facebook posts, Dannison has defended El-Sayed over his strong anti-Israel positions.Dannison said that he\u2019s \u201cpretty horrified by a lot of the anti-Abdul posts I\u2019m seeing from center-left Michigan voters that are obviously mashing the \u2018fwd:fwd:fwd\u2019 button or the copy-pasting ad copy from astro-turfed emails\/sms\/etc from defense lobbyists.\u201d\u201cDr. El-Sayed is not antisemitic. To the contrary, one of the reasons I support him is because he understands the real and present dangers facing Jewish Americans who are being blamed for foreign policies and wars that have absolutely nothing to do with their religion and history in this country,\u201d he added.Fountain Street Church raises funds for women to end the lives of their unborn children and says it is \u201cproud to be the State\u2019s longest standing abortion fund.\u201dOther pastors backing El-Sayed\u2019s campaign included Detroit Rev. Horace Sheffield III of New Destiny Christian Fellowship and Rev. Keith Whitney of Sanctuary Fellowship Baptist Church.Sheffield, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2014 and appeared in the anti-white documentary \u201cWhite With Fear,\u201d sells anti-Trump t-shirts on his ministry website that say \u201cI will take Biden in a wheel chair over Trump standing up.\u201dWhitney is the president of Moses Action, an advocacy group that pushes for left-wing criminal justice reform and supported a ballot initiative to make the right to end the life of your unborn child a constitutional right.\u201cThroughout black history, government officials \u2014 most of them white men \u2014 have made decisions about black women\u2019s bodies and health that have been harmful, traumatizing, and often deadly. Granting our current lawmakers the ability to dictate personal health decisions feels like a dangerous step backwards,\u201d the group said in a statement.Several of the pastors listed on El-Sayed\u2019s campaign website, including Bishop Alan Evans and Pastor Parris McMurray, appear to be affiliated with the Church of God In Christ, Inc. The denomination adopted a \u201csanctity of life\u201d resolution in 2019 that \u201cabortion is the killing of the innocent\u201d and describes abortion as \u201cgenocide.\u201dThe denomination did not respond to questions about its pastors endorsing the pro-abortion El-Sayed.El-Sayed wants to codify the right to an abortion in federal law and suggested he will fight back on efforts to crackdown on abortion pills.\u201cEveryone has the right to make personal decisions about their healthcare,\u201d his campaign website says. \u201cThat includes reproductive and gender-affirming care. I\u2019ll fight to codify the rights once protected by Roe v. 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Those leaders include a pastor who suggested conservative activist Charlie Kirk deserved to be shot and the senior pastor of a church that hosted a drag event for kids.El-Sayed, who once hoped to be America\u2019s first Muslim governor, is locked in a competitive primary race with Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens. While many of his positions on topics from abortion to so-called \u201cgender-affirming care\u201d directly conflict with the Bible, that has not deterred some Christians from backing his campaign.Included among El-Sayed\u2019s supporters is Larry Davis, the pastor of Christian Tabernacle Baptist in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Davis, who believes that President Donald Trump faked the multiple assassination attempts, had no kind words for Charlie Kirk after his murder.\u201cHe is being held as a hero. We shouldn\u2019t be happy that he got killed. But we shall embrace that you REAP what you SOW,\u201d Davis posted on Facebook alongside an anti-Kirk meme the day after the popular conservative activist was gunned down at an event at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025.Larry Davis Facebook.In another post, Davis shared a clip of Kirk criticizing DEI and asked, \u201cWould you give a racist out of his own mouth the medal of freedom.\u201dOn September 19, the pastor again spread his message that Kirk reaped what he sowed.\u201cNo man should take it on himself to take the life of another. But the scriptures says be not deceived God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man show [sic] that shall he also reap,\u201d Davis said alongside an AI-generated image of Kirk and Jesus Christ.The Daily Wire sent a message to Davis to ask about his support for El-Sayed. His church, which has no listed email address, did not answer multiple phone calls.Pastor Terrance Johnson, another religious leader who endorsed El-Sayed, shared a similar animus toward Kirk. He suggested that he was not sad about Kirk\u2019s assassination because he was a \u201cracist bigot.\u201d\u201cYou will accept a black man refusing to mourn his own father but you wil [sic] not accept a black man refusing to mourn a racist bigot because\u2026.. We all know why,\u201d Johnson posted in a long screed quoting Tupac song lyrics a day after Kirk\u2019s killing.When someone commented on his post, \u201cis this the heart of Christ,\u201d Johnson responded by saying, \u201cwhat is the heart of Christ.\u201dIn another post, Johnson claimed that ICE was equivalent to the Ku Klux Klan.\u201cSo ICE is the KKK rebranded. Still wearing mask it\u2019s just that the badges are now out instead of being hid under the sheets,\u201d he said.Johnson\u2019s Church, Second Missionary Baptist Church in Monroe, Michigan, recently hosted El-Sayed for an event. In a Facebook post, the church said the event was for the Democrat to share \u201cwhy he\u2019s running for office.\u201dDuring the appearance, El-Sayed claimed to attendees that he was the only candidate who could \u201cguarantee you healthcare\u201d and attacked America\u2019s history as \u201csordid,\u201d according to a video posted by the church.\u201cWe just commemorated 250 years. And I know there\u2019s a lot of sordid history in those 250 years, but I also know what my life would have been had I been born in a place that I was supposed to be born. But for an accident of history, I get born here,\u201d El-Sayed said. \u201cAre we willing to put ourselves back in to correct that system so that the next 250 look a lot better than the last ones did?\u201d\u201cIt is the many versus their money. We got a choice. Do we want them to come in and buy an election?,\u201d he added.Facebook: Second Missionary Baptist Church.\u201cSecond Missionary Baptist Church of Monroe does not endorse or oppose any political candidate or party,\u201d the church posted on July 17. \u201cOur prayer is that every voter takes time to seek wisdom, research the candidates, and make an informed decision at the ballot box.\u201dAnother pastor backing El-Sayed\u2019s campaign is the ultra-woke Nathan Dannison of Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, which recently hosted a \u201cqueer prom\u201d for adults and youth that featured \u201c12 drag performances.\u201dDannison, who recently said that psychedelics have been part of his \u201cspiritual discipline\u201d for the last twenty years, said that abolishing ICE is a baseline position any candidate supported by him needs to take.\u00a0In recent Facebook posts, Dannison has defended El-Sayed over his strong anti-Israel positions.Dannison said that he\u2019s \u201cpretty horrified by a lot of the anti-Abdul posts I\u2019m seeing from center-left Michigan voters that are obviously mashing the \u2018fwd:fwd:fwd\u2019 button or the copy-pasting ad copy from astro-turfed emails\/sms\/etc from defense lobbyists.\u201d\u201cDr. El-Sayed is not antisemitic. To the contrary, one of the reasons I support him is because he understands the real and present dangers facing Jewish Americans who are being blamed for foreign policies and wars that have absolutely nothing to do with their religion and history in this country,\u201d he added.Fountain Street Church raises funds for women to end the lives of their unborn children and says it is \u201cproud to be the State\u2019s longest standing abortion fund.\u201dOther pastors backing El-Sayed\u2019s campaign included Detroit Rev. Horace Sheffield III of New Destiny Christian Fellowship and Rev. Keith Whitney of Sanctuary Fellowship Baptist Church.Sheffield, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2014 and appeared in the anti-white documentary \u201cWhite With Fear,\u201d sells anti-Trump t-shirts on his ministry website that say \u201cI will take Biden in a wheel chair over Trump standing up.\u201dWhitney is the president of Moses Action, an advocacy group that pushes for left-wing criminal justice reform and supported a ballot initiative to make the right to end the life of your unborn child a constitutional right.\u201cThroughout black history, government officials \u2014 most of them white men \u2014 have made decisions about black women\u2019s bodies and health that have been harmful, traumatizing, and often deadly. Granting our current lawmakers the ability to dictate personal health decisions feels like a dangerous step backwards,\u201d the group said in a statement.Several of the pastors listed on El-Sayed\u2019s campaign website, including Bishop Alan Evans and Pastor Parris McMurray, appear to be affiliated with the Church of God In Christ, Inc. The denomination adopted a \u201csanctity of life\u201d resolution in 2019 that \u201cabortion is the killing of the innocent\u201d and describes abortion as \u201cgenocide.\u201dThe denomination did not respond to questions about its pastors endorsing the pro-abortion El-Sayed.El-Sayed wants to codify the right to an abortion in federal law and suggested he will fight back on efforts to crackdown on abortion pills.\u201cEveryone has the right to make personal decisions about their healthcare,\u201d his campaign website says. \u201cThat includes reproductive and gender-affirming care. I\u2019ll fight to codify the rights once protected by Roe v. Wade into federal law.\u201dEarlier this month, El-Sayed earned the endorsement of the Council of Baptist Pastors of Detroit and Vicinity, which said it supported his emphasis on \u201caffordability\u201d and \u201chuman dignity.\u201d It did not respond to questions about El-Sayed leftist advocacy on social issues.\u201cPastors attend to their communities in the best and worst of times, and their support is about trusting me to show up in those moments with them,\u201d El-Sayed said. \u201cTogether, we\u2019re building a Michigan that brings people together across faiths, regions, and backgrounds in the work of offering dignity, opportunity, and respect for every Michigander.\u201dThe Democratic primary is on August 4.","og_url":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1844","og_site_name":"Blue Route Journal","article_published_time":"2026-07-30T16:11:23+00:00","author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"7 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1844#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1844"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/#\/schema\/person\/19da116f8d79cf8987781569801c6b7c"},"headline":"Meet The Christian Pastors Who Endorsed Pro-Trans Muslim Abdul El-Sayed","datePublished":"2026-07-30T16:11:23+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1844"},"wordCount":1317,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1844#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/581fc3b98f9a511456d9b342e0d96667.avif","articleSection":["Investigation"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1844#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1844","url":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1844","name":"Meet The Christian Pastors Who Endorsed Pro-Trans Muslim Abdul El-Sayed - 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