It is no secret that, for all of the talk of deeply held principles and stalwart Christian convictions, most Religious Right leaders are Republican Party cheerleaders who will eventually back the GOP presidential nominee, regardless of every declaration to the contrary they may have made in the past.
This fact was perfectly demonstrated back in 2008, when James Dobson spent the entire Republican primary telling everyone who would listen that “I cannot, and I will not, vote for Sen. John McCain, as a matter of conscience” only to declare shortly before the election that “I am now supportive of Senator John McCain and his bid for the presidency.”
Similarly, back during that 2008 primary, Robert Jeffress, who has never been shy about calling Mormonism a “cult,” warned that Republicans could not nominate someone like Mitt Romney because “God always judges a nation that has a ruler who introduces false gods into that national life”:
But yesterday, Jeffress was on with Bryan Fischer where he declared that America was engaged in “high-handed sins” and warned that failing to elect Romney would be “asking for God’s judgment on our country”:
Just to clarify: Jeffress once believed that electing a Mormon like Mitt Romney would cause God to judge this nation, but then Romney became the GOP nominee, at which point Jeffress decided that not electing Romney will cause God to judge this nation.
