But to what extent are they influencing policy? This is where they stand on some of the key issues, and what changes they’ve attained:
Some religious conservatives hailed President Donald Trump for signing an executive order on religious liberty, seeing it as a fulfillment of his promise to “destroy” the Johnson Amendment, which bars religious organizations from electioneering if they want to keep their tax-exempt status. But one legal expert described the order as “pretty much nothing” and some conservatives acknowledged their disappointment in the action.
Richard Land, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary in Matthews, N.C., said one issue that would cause evangelicals to break bonds with the Trump administration is if it backed away from its opposition to abortion.