I've addressed this here before, Ed. Evangelical political conservatives, from the very beginning of their involvement with right wing politics, proclaimed that candidate's character was supreme in all politics. They claimed that in order to use it against Bill Clinton. Now they've supported the likes of Donald Trump and Roy Moore, who make Clinton look like a Baptist Sunday School teacher. They have abandoned their conviction for political expedience, and now they have to "own" that decision, and they are paying the price for it.
Their references to Bill Clinton is just further indication of the total abandonment of values and integrity on the part of Evangelical leaders, and Southern Baptists like Robert Jeffress. It just makes them bigger hypocrites than they already are, since they also once stood their ground saying that pointing to someone else from decades ago to justify a current politician that they support is sheer hypocrisy. Back then, they were referring to the references from the other side about conservative, Christian support of Nixon as a means of neutralizing the right's criticism of Clinton.
Evangelicals, including the Southern Baptists who openly identify with the political right "own" everything that comes with Trump's character. Their endorsement of him includes their failure to address or speak up regarding his character. He is publicly a liar, an adulterer and fornicator, a promoter of immorality for profit, dishonest in business and places no qualification on moral character as a leadership requirement. It is leading people to conclude that Evangelicals are hypocrites, and those who support Trump without qualification absolutely are.
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