NeverTrump and the Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal

Evangelical leaders misunderstood the situation twenty years ago, and are now caught in a trap of their own making.

by Rod D. Martin
October 12, 2016

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Al Mohler says that he would owe Bill Clinton an apology if he supported Trump. This is one of those exceedingly rare moments in which a genuinely brilliant man either is being or was in the past being foolish, specifically by falling into the trap the left set for us (and which allowed Clinton to escape impeachment, though not disbarment).

The following is in no way intended disrespectfully toward Al Mohler, nor to suggest he doesn't mean what he says. It just is what it is.

The left said impeachment was "all about sex." It wasn't: it was about perjury, and it should have been about sexual harassment, or better yet, selling state secrets to China for campaign cash (sound familiar?), which would have resulted in Clinton’s badly removal well before the Lewinsky scandal came to light.

But Democrats knew that by pushing the salacious rather than the prosaic, they'd get a whole host of preachers and pundits to b…