A prominent moral crusader excused later immorality he once decried

Evidence

One famous example of conservative Christians demanding sexual morality from their presidents was James Dobson’s open letter to Focus on the Family denouncing Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky and arguing that politicians so devoid of morality were not fit to run the country. Dobson would eventually support Donald Trump. — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 657

Categorization

• XREF: Illuminates the wider contradiction in chapter 5 where Christian nationalists selectively apply sexual morality only to out-partisans. — connects to: Reformers excused Moses’ abuses until he turned them on themselves — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 2839