One of the hobby horses of liberal journalists over the past decade has been issuing dire warnings of an impending theocracy being imposed by the radical right. These warnings are absurd, of course, and Ross Douthat a few years back aptly took the scalpel to these arguments, making this key point:

In other words, the Left often confuses people being loud about their faith with people “imposing their beliefs” on others. While you do see, in some Southern states, efforts to use government force to advance conservative or Christian values, the trend in the country is the opposite: government using the law to require or pressure conservatives to act against their conscience, or to outlaw some Christian practices.