Mormons are embarrassing the rest of the Religious Right by abandoning Trump

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign tumbled into a tailspin this past weekend after the Washington Post released a video in which he gloated about sexually assaulting women. Within hours, former supporters of the businessman began to distance themselves from his candidacy, resulting in an avalanche of un-endorsements that ultimately left one-third of all Republican senators unwilling to back him.

As several commentators and reporters were quick to note, however, many evangelical Christian members of the Religious Right — who have long claimed to be the arbiters of “family values” — refused to abandon the Donald. Some condemned his comments, but leaders such as Ralph Reed (head of Trump’s advisory board and the Faith and Freedom Coalition) and Jerry Falwell, Jr (president of the evangelical Christian college Liberty University) argued that right-wing faithful still had an obligation to vote for Trump, if for no other reason than to guarantee the placement of conservative justices on the Supreme Court. Their dedication drew harsh criticism from faith leaders on both sides of the political and theological aisles, many of whom argued that continued support for Trump amounted to collective abandonment of principle on the part of the conservative faithful.

Except, of course, for one very particular subset of the conservative faith coalition: Mormons....
https://thinkprogress.org/mormons-embarrass-religious-right-a84f0fd78b85#.rf9jmzkm4