It’s been two weeks since Donald J. Trump was elected president, and his appointments and prospective picks for his administration thus far have been horrendous for church-state separation.
First, he appointed Steve Bannon, a racist misogynistic xenophobe who has a long history of insulting religious minorities, as his chief strategist. Then, he nominated U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be attorney general – a man who thinks church-state separation is “a recent thing that is unhistorical and unconstitutional.”
Now, he’s reportedly considering Jerry Falwell Jr. to be a part of the Department of Education. (This is not straight out of a horror movie or a “Saturday Night Live” skit, by the way.)...
https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/trump-considering-creationist-jerry-falwell-jr-for-position-in-department
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