I’m an evangelical. The religious right leaders who support Trump don’t speak for me.

[rug]

Updated by • Alan Noble • Oct 24, 2016, 9:00a

When the tape was released earlier this month of Donald Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women, I felt hopeful about politics for the first time in months. It wasn’t that I took pleasure in the fact that Trump was indeed as terrible as I thought he was. I was hopeful because to me the tape was clear, incontrovertible evidence of his unfitness for office, evidence that even the most ardent leaders on the religious right would be unable to ignore.

As a conservative evangelical, the past year has been emotionally and spiritually draining. I have watched as leaders on the religious right who purport to represent me have enthusiastically supported a presidential candidate who opposes the very values that supposedly defined the religious right. And although some evangelicals have denounced Trump’s campaign as promoting a racist, nationalist, fraudulent, and ignorant form of politics, others have warned that if Clinton is elected, the American experiment will come to an end.

Evangelicalism has been sharply divided over Trump, and so my hope was that this tape would finally persuade the remaining evangelical defenders of Trump to abandon him. But for the most part, that’s not what happened.

Instead of rescinding their endorsements or resigning from their positions on Trump’s advisory board, many leaders doubled down on their support.

http://www.vox.com/first-person/2016/10/24/13361582/trump-religious-right

[whatthehey]

1. Any takers that he won't be shown to be a minority after the election is over?

I'll set the line at evangelicals over 25% Trump margin. In other words they'll sure speak for most evangelicals, even most Christians.