Russell Moore, an evangelical leader who has said he would not support Donald Trump in the past, is hitting the Republican nominee for his vulgar comments about women that resurfaced this weekend.
“2016 has destroyed evangelical credibility in ways even Jim Bakker (televantelist accused of rape) and Jimmy Swaggart (televangelist who confessed to patronizing prostitutes) couldn’t,” Moore wrote Sunday on Twittter.
In a Washington Post op-ed, the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention said that this election cycle, “religious conservatism stands naked and exposed before the world, while Trump smugly surveys what he has come to own.”
Trump, despite his penchant for controversy and his decades-long reputation as a playboy, has maintained strong support among evangelical Christians.
On Friday, a video from 2005 resurfaced showing him making crude marks about women.
He has since apologized and called the past comments “foolish.”
Other leaders in the conservative Christian movement, including former GOP presidential candidate Gary Bauer and Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, have said they will still back Trump.
