Don Lemon returned to CNN on Tuesday to promote his new book, I Once Was Lost, but despite the obvious allusion to “Amazing Grace,” Lemon insisted on Inside Politics that today’s white Evangelicals are no different than the slave owners of previous eras who twisted the Bible for their own purposes.
What made Lemon’s comparison even more outrageous is that he and host Dana Bash were discussing why Donald Trump is appealing to black men with ads about Kamala Harris being in favor of taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries for prisoners. As Bash switched topics to the book, Lemon added, “The black community is also very conservative, especially when it comes to LGBTQ issues.”
Bash proceeded to read from the book, “So, you just lead right into the first quote I want to use from your book, I One Was Lost, which is just a terrific book. You…
