Theocracy, Theocracy, Theocracy

Ross Douthat's review essay in First Things

When preachers echo GOP talking points rather than shape them, they risk going down the same path trod by the liberal clerics of the 1960s, whose sermons became indistinguishable from the gospel according to the New York Times--until, as David Frum once put it, their parishioners began to wonder "why they should spend a Sunday morning listening to the same editorial twice?"