Top Five Things That Conservatives Have Flipped On to Support Donald Trump

2. The high ground of personal morality

It’s true that the “family values” conservatives of the 1980s were often revealed to have personal lives that betrayed their exhortations of morality as mere lip service, but there are still plenty of conservatives on the Christian right that advocate for marriage, fidelity and family. I know that many people abhor them for it, but I have always admired those who take principled stands—especially when they are unpopular.

As attractive and successful as Donald Trump’s grown children seem to be, the fact is that among them they have two broken homes and a father who has boasted of infidelity. It’s not weird for me not to care so much about that—I’m not politically on the Christian right, despite having some pretty conservative attitudes about what makes a good and moral personal life. But it is strange to me that they were able to overlook it.

Some on the Christian right have gone so far as to believe that God ordained Donald Trump to be president of the United States. Granted, in the Bible God did turn a tax collector into an apostle, so I suppose one could believe that a serial adulterer could be called upon to serve God as well.

But now I am wondering how they feel about Trump’s decision to let stand Obama’s order that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT individuals in hiring or firing. Aren’t they just giving him a pass on protecting their religious freedom? What’s next? Bake the cake?