Trump didn't invent the hellish collaboration between the Republican party and evangelicalism. He just uses it.  This is a cynical political move to shore up part of his base.  A posse of evangelical leaders committed the reeking hypocrisy during the campaign of endorsing him as a "Christian."  That tells you all you need to know about these "religious" leaders. Their only metric, like Trump's, is transactional: if it gets us what we want, we'll say whatever we have to.  Our kind of faith is already slipping--the young people aren't on board any more--so we need laws to force society into our image.  Some "faith."  These people can cite Scripture in their sleep, and it means as little to them as the Constitution means to Trump.