Newsweek reported that 40% of evangelicals in Alabama are more likely to vote for an accused child molester now that he's been accused than they were before the accusations were made.
Normally voting "moral values" means voting against immoral practises, laws, and candidates but now it appears that a good proportion of evangelicals see it differently. After five women have claimed that a candidate for the US Senate had dealings with them when they were between 14 and 18 years old (two of them were under 15, three 16 17 and 18) and two say they were molested by the candidate when they were 14 years old. The candidate denies their claims. Now it seems that evangelical Christians in Alabama intend vote for him more so now than before the accusations were made.
"Nearly 40 percent of Evangelical Christians in Alabama say they're now
more likely to vote for Roy Moore after multiple allegations that he molested children, even as voters across the historically red state now seem to be punishing Moore for his past actions, a
new poll shows.
... " from
Newsweek
For those of us who are Christians how can such things be? Is it right to do as the poll says and intensify your decision to vote for a candidate after he has been accused of molesting young teenage girls when he was thirty something years old? Is this how Christian moral teaching shows its superiority to worldly morality?