Evangelicals who support Trump are betraying Christian principles, values and faith.

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4. This edition of the betrayal started just before Reagan was elected.

They abandoned Jimmy Carter, who was perhaps the very best example of an Evangelical serving as President who knew exactly how to follow the Constitution's first amendment establishment clause, holding to his Christian faith and convictions, but refusing to use the power of the Presidency to achieve religious ends.

Carter did two things that stirred the pot and angered Falwell, Robertson and a demented evangelist by the name of James Robison. One, he brought Egypt and Israel to the peace table and successfully ended hostility between the two countries. That angered them. Two, he expressed a strong personal moral conviction that abortion was wrong, but noting that only a religious perspective concluded so, and believed that life began at conception, he realized that to restrict access to it would be unconstitutional, since opposition to it was based solely on a religious belief.