Interesting: no one saw this coming, but now everyone has a theory about why the other guy got it wrong. Maybe we have to admit that the Church, much like our nation, does a good job of listening to the sound of its own voice and doesn't bother to listen to the other half until they rebel. 

What does it say about us if we've got nothing but sympathy for sinners, and nothing but scorn for people whose political views are different from ours?  We proclaim our calling to forgive sinners, but denigrate those who voted for the opposition.  

The first Christians lived in a culture that wiped out their homeland and sent them wandering for almost two thousand years. It was during that time that they composed gospels about Jesus' call to love one another in spite of our differences, because that kind of love is of God. And they had to deal with guys like Nero and Caligula.