text: Interesting that you refer to Commonweal. I thought many of Douthat's criticisms overlapped with those of their recent editorial. Of course, you also poo-pooed those criticisms of the Civilta article - maybe selectively quoting articles is highlighting your OWN biases?
  
  Hence: the article completely collapses any meaningful distinctions of persons & groups within both Evangelicalism & the Catholic right. It fails to acknowledge that many of Trump's most fervent conservative critics & opponents emerged from within this group: Russell Moore, Robert George, etc. Second, both pieces persuasively show that the arguments also undercut the moral force of papal statements on poverty, environment
  
  I also strongly suspect that Garnett would likely side with Ross on the issue of religious liberty over the point you seek to use his article to support. He has advised the USCCB on many of the cases involving religious liberty issues (including, I believe, the contraception mandate case).