Gail: On Obamacare once again we’re talking about people being furious about the government protecting women’s rights. But the other is interesting. I’d pretty much forgotten about that “guns or religion” comment. Yet another example of the fact that there is no longer any such thing as a private fund-raiser.

Arthur: Of course, many evangelical and Catholic women, such as the Little Sisters of the Poor, felt it was the mandates that infringed on their rights — their First Amendment rights and their liberty of conscience. But again, it’s not the serious policy differences on their own that cause all the acrimony and division. It’s the little slights, even those that liberals shrug off as insignificant, that really play right into this narrative.

For example, the recent dump of hacked emails revealed Jennifer Palmieri (communications director for the Clinton campaign!) writing to John Podesta, the Clinton campaign chairman, with this little masterpiece of contempt: “I imagine [conservatives] think [Catholicism] is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion. Their rich friends wouldn’t understand if they became evangelicals.”

Gail: Have to point out, just in passing, that Jennifer Palmieri is a Catholic. As am I, historically speaking, and I actually think that’s a very interesting observation.

Arthur: So to answer your question, why is Trump still holding a 50-point lead among evangelicals after all the scandal? Simply put, regardless of his personal behavior, many believe he will defend their communities and not treat them with contempt.

Gail: He doesn’t treat them with contempt because he thinks they love him. If the evangelical leadership suddenly announced that they had concerns about Trump’s historical inconsistencies on all the issues they hold dear, you would hear a totally different Trumpian attitude very early the next morning.

But I understand your point. It is true that the left has a great suspicion of any group that defines themselves mainly in terms of their religion. Except possibly those nuns on the bus.