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.

While groups like the AFA lift up the voices of extremists, Americans would do better to listen to the many faith leaders who are advocating a reasonable and prudent path toward reopening.

About a third of Trump’s Religious Right base has said they won’t drop support for him no matter what he does. At the same time, leading Christian nationalist leaders are hard at work promoting the GOP’s line that Trump did nothing wrong and the whole impeachment thing is a set-up.