Not an auspicious attempt at ecumenism. His list of religious allies may not have any only have one Jew on it but it includes many Christianists and others deeply hostile to gay dignity and equality.
There is a consistency and pattern to the reports, along with detailed testimony from many FBI agents, that make me believe that using faith to torture prisoners was far from rare.
Gabler is surely onto something in seeing the McCarthyite strain in American conservatism being more tenacious and transmittable, because human resentment is more common and politically potent than agreement about limited government.
