Pastors who disliked the ruling on marriage equality had the ability to criticize it from the pulpit. No church had to admit LGBTQ members. Nothing changed.

Christian nationalists’ tendency to blame enforcement of separation of religion and government in the face of mass shootings and national tragedies is nothing new. In the curious theology of many fundamentalist Christians, God apparently gets so upset over the lack of compulsory, government-sponsored prayer in public schools and other institutions that he occasionally lashes out with horrifying mass shootings, acts of terrorism, natural disasters, wars and other plagues.

None of the accusations against President Donald Trump and his advisers laid out in the Mueller Report has shaken the Religious Right’s faith in Trump. They continue to insist that the Mueller investigation is a frame-up designed to force Trump from office. Although Trump has many far-right evangelical defenders, seven stand out as especially sycophantic.