But Mr. Gorsuch was clearly hinting at the vice president when he rejected the notion that America is a Christian nation. That’s because Mr. Vance, at Turning Point USA’s annual “AmericaFest” conference last December, said, “The only thing that has truly served as an anchor of the United States of America is that we have been and… we always will be, a Christian nation.” “We were never supposed to be a nation that was about one race or one religion,” he told Ms. Hoover, adding that “it’s demonstrably not true that we came from the same religion. “We have a First Amendment, for crying out loud,” Mr. Gorsuch reminded the interviewer and viewers. The dispute between the justice and the vice president is, in the end, much ado about very little.