Sen. Raphael Warnock

Listen, he asked me to come and talk to him.

I had a conversation with him, Christian brother to Christian brother.

Look, I'm a pastor, and so I'm going to try to maintain the integrity of that.

We exchange phone numbers.

But I'm really clear-eyed about his policies.

Cutting a trillion dollars out of Medicaid is the antithesis of the Christian faith.

I stand by that.

I said it to the New York Times, and I said it to him directly.

I was raised by two wonderful parents who instilled that in me.

And so I try to live my life and carry out my life in a certain kind of way that's consistent with my faith claims as a preacher on Sunday morning.

But we're all flawed human beings, all of us.

At best, they're sinners saved by grace.

But character does matter.

And I do think, and I have to say to, you know, to my Christian sisters and brothers on the right lovingly, that I do think they're on pretty shaky ground right about now because they were...

There were moments when there were many of us who were frustrated with them.

And we would say, hey, don't you care about what's happening to poor people?

Don't you care about state mass incarceration in the land of the free?

Don't you care about people having access to health care?

And they would say, no, what matters is personal ethics.

And much of that centered around sex and sexuality.