Well-known Evangelical pastor preaches sermon giving reasons Christians shouldn't support Trump.

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https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/07/one-evangelicals-reasons-for-not.html

In November of 1998, while Republicans in Congress were marching toward impeachment of President Clinton, based on claims of deception surrounding his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, Dr. Adrian Rogers, a highly influential, well-known pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the largest churches in the Southern Baptist Convention, preached a sermon aimed at a larger Evangelical audience, for the purpose of justifying their expectations that a higher level of personal character and morality was indeed a requirement and a qualification for holding public office in a democracy. Rogers told the congregation that Christians should look beyond acceptable moral character, and in casting their ballot, consider those candidates whose morals were supported by their own spiritual experience with God, and their "biblical worldview" because those were the only values that were truly trustworthy.

Obviously, the sermon was intended to justify support for the impeachment of President Clinton. It was also to discourage any doubters among the flock that Democrats could not achieve the expected level of morality and character necessary to get Christian votes, and to pull Evangelicals more closely into the Republican political fold.

The big problem Republicans and Evangelicals now have with Dr Rogers' sermon is that he preached it in 1998, it is on the record, and this is now 2024, and the Republicans have buried themselves underneath a cataract of bad character from one of their former Presidents and current nominee that includes compulsive, pathological lying, all kinds of fraud, more adultery that the combined total of ten years of daytime soap operas, incitement of an insurrection and attacks on law enforcement, 34 felony convictions surrounding an affair with a porn star and a coverup that makes the Lewinsky incident look like a Sunday School picnic. Dr. Rogers established a standard by which Christians should apply to qualify candidates before they give them their support and their vote, and Trump's immorality and worldliness problem is far greater than Clinton's was, if a heirarchy of immorality can be established.