Better be careful what you ask for ...

Reportedly the Trump administration is currying favor with its white evangelical Christian supporters by scratching one of their grievance itches.

The Trump administration is moving to strengthen protections for students who want to pray or worship in public schools and proposing changes that would make it easier for religious groups that provide social services to access federal funds....

The Education Department plans to issue guidance that will require local school districts to certify that they have no rules or regulations that conflict with students’ right to pray at school. It will also require states to notify the Education Department if there are complaints against a school district regarding the right to pray. The department does not have similar reporting requirements for states when a school district is accused of other types of discrimination.

Should this country ever again get a government that impartially executes the laws, who do they think is likely to come complaining that their religious observances are being discriminated against by institutions? That's right, it's the religious practices of unpopular minorities that are really on the chopping block. You know, like Muslims, or Native Americans, or Jews.

The most organized of white Christian evangelicals used to understand that.

Baptists contend that this mutual benefit works best when the institutions of church and state are separate and when neither seeks to control the other. The state is not to dictate doctrine, worship style, organization, membership or personnel for leadership to the church. The church is not to seek the power or the financial support of the state for spiritual ends. Such is the model set forth in the New Testament.

Baptists: Separation of Church and State

But sadly, no more. Gripped with fear as they feel their cultural hold dwindle, most have become suckers for a con man.