Where this could go

It's not all that far-fetched according to Scahill. Pence is not the adult in the room but a "Christian supremacist militant. [...] Trump is a Trojan horse for a cabal of vicious zealots who have long craved an extremist Christian theocracy, and Pence is one of its most prized warriors." See his article for Pence's long policy history to support such rhetoric.