November 9, 2016 @ 8:30 AM

I've argued for years that evangelicals' willingness to sell their souls in presidential elections for the lesser of two evils does nothing but compromise our Christian witness and perpetuate a corrupt political system by continuously lowering the bar of American morality. As long as corrupt politicians can count on the votes of Christians for so cheap a price as a few false promises to perform a little lesser evil, politicians will never have any incentive to keep their promises or to offer us a righteous alternative to evil. Last night, I was amazed to hear my argument both made and confirmed on Fox News.
 
Bret Baier announced last night that Trump's victory was due in part to the highest evangelical turnout we've seen in decades at the polls. Megyn Kelly, Baier's coanchor for the evening, called this development "unbelievable," since it was presumed before last night that the only way a candidate could gain such evangelical support was to be a proven pro-life conservative who opposed such things as the radical agenda of the LGBT community. Kelly then, in light of the fact that Donald Trump is none of the above, asked the poignant question, "What does [this] do for the Republican Party on a go forward basis?" She eventually answers her own question by saying that evangelicals' support of Donald Trump proves that moderates, who do not subscribe to conservative principles, but only pay them lip service, can now count on the support of evangelical voters in future elections. According to Kelly, the "doctrine" that one must share the Christian values of evangelicals to enlist evangelical support at the polls "has been busted up by Donald Trump."
 
I know the last thing evangelicals want to hear this morning in the midst of their euphoria over Hillary being tied to the tracks by voters and run over by the Trump train is that the trestle just ahead has just been washed out. Still, as Fox News reported last night, evangelicals' support of Trump has lowered the bar of expectations in a corrupt political system to an all time low, where corrupt politicians can now count on the support of Christians at the rock bottom price of even a lesser lesser evil. My, oh, my, what have we wrought?