Samuel Rodriguez, a Religious Right activist who likes to portray himself as above partisan politics, was among the religious leaders invited to speak during President Trump’s inauguration on Friday. That evening, in black tie at the Freedom Ball, he spoke with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and described his concerns about “moral relativism, cultural decadence, the pushback on mores and absolutes.” Was this an example of speaking truth to power, of challenging Trump’s materialism, cynicism and penchant for lying? Nah. It was standard Religious Right culture-war rhetoric.

Rodriguez, who heads the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, spent a good chunk of the interview talking about his belief that Trump, through his Supreme Court picks, will save religious liberty from people who are trying to force Christians “to sacrifice truth on the altar of political or cultural expediency.”