"We believe the candidacy of Donald J. Trump has given voice to a movement that affirms racist elements in white culture — both explicit and implicit," reads the petition in part.

Notable signatories to the petition include author and preacher Tony Campolo, Red Letter Christians co-founder Shane Claiborne, Progressive National Baptist Convention General Secretary Timothy Tee Boddie, Rachel Held Evans, the Rev. Brian D. McLaren, and the Rev. Dr. Ron Sider of Evangelicals for Social Action.

A couple days earlier in late September, the American Association of Evangelicals released a statement calling on liberal Christians to cease supporting what it describes as "the anti-Christian Progressive political movement ...