2016 is the year of the messy private life -- and the year when it no longer matters

“I don’t care if he had 10 wives,” said Parker Bosley, 77, a retired chef interviewed at Wholesome Valley Farm on Route 62, which runs through this picturesque Ohio county. “I am very French on this — a personal life is personal. What I care about is how a candidate would manage the country.”

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Shetler, who was selling peach jam and other homemade goods at Wholesome’s farm festival this past weekend, said she and her husband serve as pastors in a small Christian congregation. The farm lies in an unincorporated area of this overwhelming Republican county of 44,000, which includes a large Amish community.

“Christianity is all about forgiveness,” said Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University, who will be speaking on Trump’s behalf at the convention. Falwell said many Christians don’t criticize Trump for his private life because they understand the Bible teaching about letting only those without sin “cast the first stone.”

Some here do believe a candidate’s personal life tells a lot about their judgment.

Joel Salatin, an Amish man who was sitting in a gazebo at the farm festival with his wife of 29 years next to him in a white bonnet, said he will not vote this year. Instead, he will pray.

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