Dear Sincere Christian Supporters of Trump:

You are being deceived. You are like the naive girl who believes the promises of a con man and agrees to marry him, only to see clearly, when it is too late, what he really is. Ask Trump’s wives, and business partners, and bankers, and investors. Ask anyone who has had anything to do with him in his checkered career. Now he is perpetrating yet another fraud, this time upon America as a whole, and nowhere is the success of this fraud more apparent than in the ranks of evangelical conservatives. I agree with Russell Moore, the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, whose excellent article I posted earlier this week: “You will forgive me if, at least until this crazy campaign year is over, I choose just to say that I’m a gospel Christian.”

I have been accused and accused of flying in the face of God because of my decision to vote for Hillary Clinton. So I will say it once again: I am pulling the lever next to her name because that is the only way I can help keep Donald Trump out of the White House. That is the only legitimate action I can take as a citizen, and I do not take that action lightly. I will not stay home, and I will not throw my vote away on a third-party candidate. I am therefore left with this one terrible option. I encourage you, nay, beg you, to read the following two articles.

First, from the estimable Jennifer Rubin of the Right Turn Blog of the Washington Post:

There is no segment of the GOP coalition that has fared worse in 2016 than evangelical conservatives. They not only failed to lift any of their favorites (e.g. Sen. Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee) to the nomination, but they also wound up embracing someone who quite obviously cares very little about their issues — and, in fact, has been an enthusiastic, pro-choice Democrat.

“Trump Dispatches Pence to Meet Evangelicals”

Next, from Erick Erickson, a devout Christian, from The Resurgent website:

Seeing men like Wayne Grudem and others beclown themselves trying to justify support of a man like Trump makes me weep for the shallow faith of a church more wrapped up in its Americanness than its Godliness.

“Reconsidering My Opposition to Trump”

Be sure to read the entire article! While I do not agree with his conclusion, which is that he will vote for neither candidate, since I firmly believe that to refuse to choose is to choose, especially if there is a chance that Trump might actually win, I cannot applaud him enough for his refusal to give in to the colossally misguided attempts to paint Trump as a friend of conservatism and Christianity.