Trump clearly hopes to cover up his inability to comfort our nation during a time of great sorrow and pain by assuming the mantle of religion.

For the past three years, the Trump administration has been laboring to turn religious freedom into an instrument of discrimination, a device to treat some people (LGBTQ folks, women, Muslims and other religious minorities, nonbelievers, etc.) as if they have second-class status.

Religious Right groups sought to link their narrow version of the Christian faith with government – an exclusionary act that makes a mockery of the very season of peace and goodwill they so claim to cherish.