"People with empathy tend to hold that 'Deeds make the person (good or bad)'
...
Conservatives start from the other way, 'The person makes the deeds (good or bad)'

So their pastor is obviously a Good Man, and therefore what he does is also good, ... even if what he did was objectively horrific"

I have seen this a lot, but not the original source.

This guy couldn't possibly be a stronger match for reincarnated Geobbels.

Could be.