Sunday, February 9, 2025

Trump’s taskforce order is latest in efforts to boost Christian nationalism

Some critics were quick to condemn the initiative as a thinly veiled attempt to privilege evangelical Christianity over other religious minorities. 

"If Trump really cared about religious freedom and ending religious persecution, he'd be addressing antisemitism in his inner circle, anti-Muslim bigotry, hate crimes against people of color and other religious minorities," the president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Rachel Laser, said in a statement. "This taskforce is not a response to Christian persecution; it's an attempt to make America into an ultra-conservative Christian Nationalist nation."…

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