Utterly ridiculous, yes...AND highly dangerous for separation of church and state under the present U.S. administration.   Worse, the danger of this linking back of church and state is a global phenomenon.  

The U.S. Civil War never really ended; it just went underground...just like the opposition to Vatican II as a bona fide Ecumenical Council of the universal Catholic Church.  Both racial and religious polarization are extreme and growing more so every day.

The information below, if it is true, does not bode well for Progressive Christianity/Catholicism:  "In a recent Public Religion Research Institute survey, 1 in 4 Americans ages 18 to 29 favored allowing small-business owners to refuse to provide products or services to the LGBT community for religious reasons, compared to one-third of Americans ages 30 to 64 and 43 percent of Americans older than 65."   Google Rite Beyond Rome DOT com.