--- title: Donald Trump Evangelicals: Religious Protesters Gather description: As Donald Trump met with evangelical leaders in New York City, dozens of faith leaders from different religions gathered outside. canonical: https://time.com/4377045/donald-trump-evangelical-meeting-protesters/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-21T18:27:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:46:01.294Z article:section: Politics og:title: Religious Protesters Gather Outside Trump Meeting og:description: They held signs with slogans like “‘Don’t Vote for That Guy’ — Jesus." og:url: https://time.com/4377045/donald-trump-evangelical-meeting-protesters/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4bdff013c9be3366/698898d4196cf45e0103c1ce/trump-evangelical-protest-new-york-city.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: A group of interfaith religious leaders protest against Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump outside a hotel where he was to meet with evangelical leaders in New York og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Religious Protesters Gather Outside Trump Meeting twitter:description: They held signs with slogans like “‘Don’t Vote for That Guy’ — Jesus." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4bdff013c9be3366/698898d4196cf45e0103c1ce/trump-evangelical-protest-new-york-city.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Religious Protesters Gather Outside Donald Trump Meeting in New York > Sponsored content. 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A group of interfaith religious leaders protest against Donald Trump outside a hotel where he was to meet with evangelical leaders in New York City, June 21, 2016. Brendan McDermid—Reuters  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Jun 21, 2016 6:27 PM UTC As Donald Trump met with hundreds of evangelical leaders inside the Marriott Marquis in New York City, dozens of faith leaders from different religions gathered outside to protest what they saw as bigotry and fear-mongering. Organized by the PICO Action Fund, the Faith Over Fear vigil brought together a diverse coalition of faith leaders, including a a monk, several rabbis, numerous priests and nuns, at least three reverends, at least one imam and one Buddhist. They held signs with slogans like “Jesus Doesn’t Build Walls,” “Refugees Welcome,” and “‘Don’t Vote for That Guy’ — Jesus,” while singing gospel songs and chanting their support for Muslims, Hispanics, people of color and the LGBT community in a call-and-response format. A group of Jewish protesters also joined the protest, holding signs saying “Jews Reject Trump” with the hashtag #We’veSeenThisBefore. While Trump’s name was never mentioned in the protest in order to preserve the 501(c)(3) status of the organizations in attendance, the event’s true target wasn’t lost on anyone. Leaders repeatedly condemned the presumptive GOP nominee’s comments about Muslims, his much-repeated promise to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico and his proposal to deport millions of undocumented immigrants. **Read More:** [_Trump Receives Standing Ovation at Evangelical Meeting_](http://time.com/4377051/donald-trump-evangelical-meeting/) “I think he willfully inspires fear,” said Rev. Stephen Holton of St. James Episcopal church in North Salem, New York. “I don’t think he tries to inspire confidence in our country and in other people.” He said his congregation was “eager to be part of the healing.” Rabbi Michael Feinberg said the gathering was about embracing the religious plurality that he says has been key to our national character. “We want to remind America what’s best about ourselves, which is that we have an inclusive, welcoming society,” he says. “That’s what makes America great.” Not everyone in Times Square agreed with the protest. David Dana, a mechanical engineer from Rochester, NY, rolled his eyes as he walked past the protest. “They have a right to demonstrate,” he says, “but I disagree with the premise that inclusivity and diversity are a good thing.” “There is evil in this world, and there are people in this world—and I’m talking about Muslims driven by Islamic faith—who want to do away with everything we hold dear,” he said. Dana, who is a born-again Christian, scoffed at the coexist symbols proudly displayed on the religious garb of many of the faith leaders at the demonstration. “There has to be a truth,” he added. “People have their own beliefs, but some people believe the wrong thing.” Inside the Marriott, a group of evangelical leaders rebuked the hundreds gathered with the presumptive Republican nominee a few floors below. In a sparsely attended press conference organized by Faith in Public Life, where reverends far outnumbered reporters, a diverse group of evangelical leaders criticized Trump’s meeting as not representative of their faith, noting that the vast majority of evangelicals at the Trump event are white. “If a group is all made up of one people, it’s not representing the Kingdom of God,” said Ryan Phipps, lead pastor of the Forefront Church in Manhattan. “The reason there’s plurality here today, it’s because this is what the Kingdom of God is supposed to look like.” “When they say ‘evangelicals,’ they mean ‘white evangelicals,’” said Rev. Dr. Ray Rivera, board chair of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition. Speaking after the press conference, Noel Castellanos, President and CEO of the Christian Community Development Association in Chicago, wouldn’t say whether his criticism of Trump amounted to an endorsement of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. But he emphasized that his mostly Mexican-American flock would be heading to the polls in November. “We’re going to mobilize our community to vote, and our communities are listening to the candidates just like everybody else,” he said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4377045/donald-trump-evangelical-meeting-protesters/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4377045/donald-trump-evangelical-meeting-protesters/"},"headline":"Religious Protesters Gather Outside Donald Trump Meeting in New York","datePublished":"2016-06-21T18:27:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:46:01.294Z","description":"As Donald Trump met with evangelical leaders in New York City, dozens of faith leaders from different religions gathered outside.","url":"https://time.com/4377045/donald-trump-evangelical-meeting-protesters/","keywords":["faith","2016 Election","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4bdff013c9be3366/698898d4196cf45e0103c1ce/trump-evangelical-protest-new-york-city.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4bdff013c9be3366/698898d4196cf45e0103c1ce/trump-evangelical-protest-new-york-city.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"A group of interfaith religious leaders protest against Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump outside a hotel where he was to meet with evangelical leaders in New York","caption":"A group of interfaith religious leaders protest against Donald Trump outside a hotel where he was to meet with evangelical leaders in New York City, June 21, 2016.","creditText":"Brendan McDermid—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/faith/","name":"faith"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4377045/donald-trump-evangelical-meeting-protesters/","name":"Religious Protesters Gather Outside Donald Trump Meeting in New York"}}]}] ```