Three Simple Questions

I want to ask what should be three simple questions:

Why is it that the Reformed church seems to be the only Christian tradition in America where it is socially acceptable for ministers to associate with someone who gives speeches that, five years ago, would be relegated to a Klan meeting, to an organization whose leadership is so notably racist and antisemitic that state GOP lawmakers have denounced them?

Why is it acceptable for Reformed pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention and those in the Presbyterian Church in America and Orthodox Presbyterian Church to publicly defend and work with the speaker’s employer, who, beyond supporting many other racist activists, has sponsored multiple events for this organization?

Why is the leadership of Reformed denominations, who are quick on the draw to condemn anything on social media an inch to their left, too cowardly to stand up and say the obvious, “This is antichrist. Do not even eat with such a one”?

I will eat my hat if the forthcoming Christian Nationalist report in the PCA even begins to ask these questions, because the answer is that William Wolfe and American Reformer represent the natural outgrowth of a mode of religion that, for decades, has centered its public “witness” around celebrity pastors obsessed with fighting the culture war.