“The actual picture is complex”
If it involves preaching instead of charity giving, he has no business in the White House. We are not electing a preacher-in-chief.
I don’t know how you got this “instead of” insinuation.
I wouldn’t mind someone who preaches on the side (nobody said that saxophone playing made Bill Clinton a better or worse president), but not as pretending that it is a capacity of a secular office. Such combinations inevitably dumb down the church and whitewash the state. Each is ugly of itself and it’s even uglier together.