Charles Pierce goes down to Alabama to find out what makes evangelicals so forgiving of religious fakers like Trump and former governor Bentley.

“The idea that moral hypocrisy hurts you among evangelical voters is not true, if you’re sound on all of the fundamentals,” said Wayne Flynt, an ordained Baptist minister and one of Alabama’s pre-eminent Geethe fundamentals have become. At this time, what is fundamental is hating liberals, hating Obama, hating abortion and hating same-sex marriage.”

So as we all assumed, being a good evangelical christian is all about hating the right people and things.

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