Evangelical public figures and publications who have called on Donald Trump to withdraw from the presidential race are "foolhardy," writes Mariam Bell in the Christian Post.

Bell, who has worked in Ronald Reagan's White House, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the U.S. House of Representatives for 30 years, said that the real-estate mogul was not her first choice, but she's "profoundly disturbed by the calls for his withdrawal.

"They demonstrate a profound ignorance and naivete regarding how our government actually functions and what is at stake. Though well intended, they are foolhardy," Bell wrote.

The 3,000-plus people that a president would appoint to fulfill his or her goals are key to understanding the importance of an election. Those appointees have an "immense impact" on religious freedom — "not to mention the Departments of Education, Labor, Agriculture, Health and Human Services. You only have to look at policy advancement in those offices (and many others) of the LGBTQ agenda and its effect on religious freedom to see what the last eight years have wrought," writes Bell, referring to President Barack Obama's administration.

Examples of actions taken by political appointees include funding transgender transition surgery by the Department of Defense, the Department of Health and Human Services' contraceptive mandate, and the decision not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, Bell added.

"We must weigh the moral flaws of both candidates—and the policy consequences of both administrations. Which administration will cause more abortions, greater harm to religious liberty and Christian education, etc.?"

Looking at Trump's character compared to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's is vital to her decision and "moral disgust against one candidate is woefully incomplete analysis.

It not only fails to express the same moral disgust against the other, who is at least as morally corrupt, but also fails to consider the serious consequences that will flow from a Clinton administration," writes Bell.

"Almost all leaders have feet of clay, from King David to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton," she said, adding that she supports Trump, because "the alternative is unthinkable."

Conservative evangelical writer Alan Noble had a differing opinion, saying the character of the candidate is his or her most vital component. "If we believe the character of both candidates makes them unfit for office, the answer is not to deny that character matters," Noble writes in Vox.