Let’s hear it first from your so-called Christian conservative “leaders”:

Matt Walsh:

“On a day when we hear reports of a Catholic priest being literally crucified by Islamic State because he refused to abandon his faith, perhaps we might hope Christians in this country could at least withstand mean insults and online petitions. But we’ve learned not to expect anything — not even one minuscule, microscopic shred of bravery — from Christians like Deal. They will surrender every time, without fail. …”

Rod Dreher:

“You have to understand that there is no religious liberty that will be respected by LGBT activists and their Big Business allies — and the Republican Party is a fair-weather friend.”

David French:

“When Disney says “Jump,” Georgia governor Nathan Deal doesn’t just ask “How high?” He insults anyone who asks him to stand his ground. Today, Deal joined the GOP governors’ hall of shame — currently populated by Indiana governor Mike Pence and Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson — by bowing to corporate pressure and pledging to veto an extraordinarily narrow religious-liberty bill. Deal, in fact, makes both Pence and Hutchinson look like profiles in courage. They, after all, at least had enough conviction to sign modified, watered-down religious-freedom legislation. Deal couldn’t muster the backbone to sign even a bill that the legislature had already gutted in response to threatened corporate boycotts. The Georgia bill that Deal refused to defend was modest in scope, protecting the right of clergy to solemnize marriages consistent with their religious beliefs, protecting the right of faith-based institutions to use their property and resources to advance their religious mission, protecting their rights to hire and fire employees on grounds consistent with religious belief and practice, and protecting a person’s free exercise of religion from a “substantial burden” unless the protected person was engaged in “invidious discrimination on any grounds prohibited by federal or state law.” …”

Erick Erickson:

“Governor Nathan Deal vetoed HB 757, the religious liberty legislation. He came under extraordinary pressure from Hollywood to put its values ahead of Georgia’s. He caved. He had done a lot to woo those businesses to Georgia and it would have been surprising had he put Georgia small businesses ahead of Hollywood. …”

Russell Moore:

GA Gov. @NathanDeal sell-out to big business pressure on religious freedom one more example of what serving Mammon does to the common good. — Russell Moore (@drmoore) March 28, 2016

Think about it.

How many times have we heard from you that we need to elect strong, principled, consistent, conservative, constitutional Christians? I’m old enough to remember when gay marriage wasn’t legal and Nathan Deal was running for office as “The Real Deal.”

The fact is, these TruChristians and TruConservatives answer to the donor class and ALWAYS end up selling you out. There are few things more predictable in our political universe. Nathan Deal did it in Georgia. Mike Pence did it in Indiana. Jan Brewer did it in Arizona. Asa Hutchinson did it in Arkansas. Dennis Daugaard did it in South Dakota.

You have spent decades trying to put a conservative majority on the Supreme Court. When you accomplished your goal, it refused to overturn Roe v. Wade, but legalized sodomy and gay marriage. In the State of Indiana, it was a bridge too far to defend Christian florists and bakers. In the State of Georgia, it is now a bridge too far for a Republican governor to even defend pastors from having to perform gay weddings.

In spite of this, you come on the internet and tell us that Donald Trump isn’t a TruChristian, or that he is a threat to TruConservatism! In your view, Ted Cruz is the TruChristian and TruConservative in the race, and even though he hasn’t accomplished anything in the Senate and is financed by the big donors and has explicitly told Paul Singer otherwise, you believe he can be trusted to sort all this out.

Give me a break.