The Evangelical Civil War: An Interview With Russell Moore

Russell Moore is not surprised. In 2015, the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention warned his fellow conservative evangelical Christians about a political candidate whose entire life was devoted to egotism and materialism and whose "attitude toward women is that of a Bronze Age warlord."

Leading Christian conservatives, such as Tony Perkins and Jerry Falwell Jr., didn't steer clear of Donald Trump. They laid hands on him, eager to deploy him as their newest battering ram in the culture war. They stuck with Trump through racism, sexism, dishonesty and even the publication of his third wife's mid-1990s girl-on-girl porno shoot. They're sticking with him now, even as more sensitive Republicans flee.