Donald Trump uses a word to please female voters. Here's why this should scare you.

During the election campaign, Donald Trump used a word to try to convince women to vote for him, and it is this word that sets off alarm bells for me as an exvangelical or former member of the evangelical church .

You will no longer be in danger. You will no longer be anxious about all the problems our country is experiencing today. You will be protected, and I will be your protector, he said last month at a rally in Pennsylvania, a battleground state.

This echoed a statement he had made a few days earlier in all caps on Truth Social: I WILL PROTECT WOMEN AT A LEVEL NEVER SEEN BEFORE. THEY WILL BE HEALTHY, HOPEFUL, SAFE AND SECURE.

I heard the word protective often growing up in the Texas Bible Belt, a place where churches outnumbered retail stores and people introduced themselves by their Christian denomination. Some were Baptists. Others were Methodists. We were the Church of Christ.

While some white evangelicals believe in gender equality, most, including my church, advocate a concept known as complementarianism. This means that men and women have different but complementary roles. Men are supposed to be the providers and protectors, while women are the nurturers and sustainers. Complementarians believe that the Bible supports these differences.

Ironically, growing up, I rarely felt protected by the men in our church. From a young age, my female peers and I were taught that we had the power to cause men to sin, which is a nicer way of saying that our young bodies would tempt them to lust. The accusation was confusing because it simultaneously infantilized us and accelerated us toward adulthood. Although many of us weren't even old enough to think about sex, we were now told that we had to be responsible for it.

An elder from my childhood church once warned my friend's mother that her daughter's provocative clothing was inappropriate for her changing body. She was 11 years old. She and her mother were filled with shame, filling their daughter's closet with long, baggy denim clothes as if they were a fabric barrier between the sin of the elders and her prepubescent body. The men who look down on children are the most dangerous, not the children themselves. Yet the words of the elders belie an underlying mindset common to evangelicals: men have the power to control everything except themselves.

This is certainly the case with Trump. The man vying to become the most powerful in the country has a long history of uncontrolled sexual behavior. He infamously bragged to Billy Bush on Access Hollywood about groping and forcefully kissing reluctant women. He bragged about wandering into the Miss Teen USA locker room to get a glimpse of the half-naked underage contestants. A jury found Trump responsible for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll, and another jury heard testimony from Stormy Daniels, who said Trump cheated on his wife, Melania Trump, with her before covering up their affair with a secret payment of $130,000.

The word that comes to mind is not protective of its predator.

Trump does not take inspiration from the Bible (the man once referred to Second Corinthians as Two Corinthians), but white evangelicals have embraced Trump as their leader because he shares their view that women are submissive.

Evangelicals learn that God cursed Eve for tempting Adam to eat fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thereby making all women subordinate to men forever. Women's main purpose was to be fruitful and multiply, filling the earth with children, while man's role was to rule over women. In social media, professional women make this outdated concept appear trendy and idyllic. Christian influencers tell women there is strength in submission. I was fed these messages regularly until I had my own daughter and realized I wanted better for her.

The author and his family vacationed in the San Juan Islands, Washington.

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My daughter was 2 when Trump was elected. She's 10 now and hasn't known a world where he doesn't poison the airwaves in one way or another. By the time white evangelicals rallied behind Trump, calling him honest and morally upright in polls, we had been questioning other elements of white evangelical culture for years. We affirmed LGBTQ+ rights and dignity, when many of our Christian peers did not. We also interacted with people who called climate change a hoax instead of seeing it as an opportunity to defend nature, which we believed to be God's creation. These were disagreements that we could analyze. Trump was not.

To the world, Trump's own descriptions of his predatory behavior could be considered criminal. Among our evangelical friends and family, they have been considered locker room talk. Around the world, Trump's blatant and unscrupulous infidelity has been criticized. In our church, he was compared to the Bible's flawed hero, King David, who sent a woman's husband to death so he could claim her as his own. Every excuse our fellow church members have given to Trump tells the same story: Protection exists for men, not for the women they rape.

My husband and I began to drift away from the church we loved, where we had spent hundreds of hours serving. We were simply no longer willing to raise our daughter (or son) in a place that used the idea of ​​protection as a veil to dominate and harm women.

The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest and most influential evangelical organization, wields broad political influence as it is home to many Republican leaders, including Louisiana House Speaker Mike Johnson. In the SBC's Doctrinal Statement, The Baptist Faith and Message, the organization writes: [A husband] has his God-given responsibility to provide, protect, and lead his family.

The SBC was rocked by widespread scandal in 2022 when a report found the organization covered up more than 700 cases of sexual abuse instead of reporting the crimes. It seems that the only people protected by the SBC are the men in power.

In some ways, I'm grateful to Trump for revealing something I couldn't have seen when I was so deeply rooted in my church community. Like a termite, he denounced the rot of evangelicalism which has always existed. Now it's up to them to fumigate.

As for me and my home, I now believe that the best way to protect women is to ensure that we have power over our bodies and the power to make our own decisions. I neither need nor want Trump's protection. I protect myself at the polls.

Tiffany Torres Williams writes about the dangerous intersection of Christian nationalism and politics in her newsletter, Project 2025 Takedown. She lives in western Montana with her husband, son, and daughter. This article was originally published on HuffPost.

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