Paul Bayes, the bishop of Liverpool, said "self-styled evangelicals" risked bringing the word evangelical into disrepute, and added there was no justification for Christians contradicting God's teaching to protect the poor and the weak.
Bayes told the Guardian: "Some of the things that have been said by religious leaders seem to collude with a system that marginalises the poor, a system which builds walls instead of bridges, a system which says people on the margins of society should be excluded, a system which says we're not welcoming people any more into our country.
"Whenever people say those kinds of things, they need to be able to justify that they're saying those things as Christians, and I do not believe it's justifiable."
He said he regretted that "people who call themselves evangelical in the US seem to be uncritically accepting" positions taken by Trump and his allies.
Comment: Uhm, the evangelicals have ALWAYS voted right, so this is a blatantly political statement. We'll try to make it simple. Most evangelicals are conservative. Trump is a conservative. Evangelicals voted for Trump. It's not that difficult to understand. On top of that, isn't it the nature of most religious believers to accept uncritically positions they may not otherwise accept?