“This is nothing new for us, church. We’ve been lied about,” said one pastor. “He’s facing attacks that would completely crush most men,” said Mike Allison, a pastor from Madison, Alabama, who is a longtime supporter of Moore and introduced him…

“Why didn’t they bring it up 30 years ago if there was anything to it? And I could get on TV and I could cry and tell all of this, and just go to pieces and cry, and cry, and cry. That don’t make it so,” said Presnall.

“I believe him,” she said. “I’ll vote for him.”

“Even if it’s true, God forgives people,” said Alfred Marks, another attendee. “We all have a closet.”