Good @cnn.com article on how "Trump has chipped away at the long-standing wall between church & state." Nice to be included in the piece to offer a warning/critique of Trump admin's #ChristianNationalism (along with @rachellaser.bsky.social & @randallbalmer.bsky.social).
www.cnn.com/2026/02/15/p...
Nice piece on how religious extremist groups are directly taking on the Constitutional requirement of no religious tests for public office. @svantemyrick.bsky.social thehill.com/opinion/judi...
This is a big moment for religious freedom in America.
Read our interview with @rachellaser.bsky.social of @americansunited.bsky.social on just what was at stake (and still is) with today's ruling: bermanarchive.stanford.edu/church-state...
June's lineup is 🔥👀 Here’s who’s joining us soon on Faithful Politics:
→ @shannonmfleck.bsky.social
→ @rachellaser.bsky.social
→ @jessicahuseman.bsky.social
→ @brandanrobertson.bsky.social
→ @profgagne.bsky.social
→ @peter-wehner.bsky.social
→ @aprilajoy.bsky.social
Supreme Court deadlocks, leaving in place the ruling stopping the nations first religious public school www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Reminder: the assault on/erasure of transgender people is based on one set of religious views about gender, as exemplified by Trump's EO on gender, which defines gender as beginning at conception. The government shouldn't impose one religion's beliefs on all of us. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
The right-wing #SCOTUS Justices appear content to disregard the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Extremely distressing.
cc: @americansunited.bsky.social @rachellaser.bsky.social @ffrf.org
I continue to see eye to eye with @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social, a conservative columnist, in many instances- such as this one. An astute piece about how Christian Nationalism is a political ideology- not a Christian one.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...
Emphasizing how Christian Nationalism also works against the wrong kind of Christian (h/t KatherineStewart and Kristin Kobes Du Mez) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Tmrw 10am Pacific, I'll talk with Notre Dame law prof Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer; @spencerwoodman.bsky.social of @icij.org; & @rachellaser.bsky.social of Americans United, about whether and how the IRS enforces tax regulations on religious institutions. Join us: kalw.org. Taking your questions & comments!
A beautiful summary of @americansunited.bsky.social Summit for Religious Freedom. Thank you, @faithfulpolitics.bsky.social for attending, for your good work, and for insisting that our movement be a big tent.
“Given that the country is a majority Christian country, if we don’t have Christians with us on church-state separation, we’re in big trouble. So we really appreciate having Christians with our cause, I say as the leader of AU and as a Jew.”
- @rachellaser.bsky.social
David Martin Davies, Rep. James Talarico, Rachel Laser, David Brockman
What an honor to participate yesterday w/ (L-R) @texaspublicradio.bsky.social's David Martin Davies, Rep. James Talarico & @americansunited.bsky.social head @rachellaser.bsky.social in a lively discussion of church-state separation issues. Will post links to the video when available #txed #txlege
“Christian nationalists are clear they want to replace public education with religious education because it indoctrinates a new generation of Americans in their faith and their lie that America was supposed to be a Christian nation.” - @rachellaser.bsky.social, CEO of @americansunited.bsky.social
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Religious freedom will be tested next month with a major Supreme Court case. We interviewed @rachellaser.bsky.social, CEO of @americansunited.bsky.social to learn about the case and its implications for Jews and all religious minorities in this country. bermanarchive.stanford.edu/church-state...
Looking forward to this! Good to be back in Texas. So much energy here to fight the overreach of religious extremists.
exactly- keeping the government and religion separate *stops* us from being divided. It's not a coincidence that as church-state separation is attacked and undermined, our country descends into greater divisions than in many of our lifetimes.
My friend @robertpjones.bsky.social speaks truth to power. Trump's anti-Christian bias task force is, in fact, anti-Christian. contrarian.substack.com/p/what-anti-...
Christian Nationalist government leaders are no longer even trying to hide the religious basis for their policies. www.au.org/the-latest/a...
It's not only that JD Vance got his Catholicism wrong (according to Pope Francis), it's also that he is using his personal religion to justify US policy. SEPARATE CHURCH & STATE. It's the American way! newrepublic.com/article/1914...
The (Orthodox) Jewish former congressman advocating for how the St. Isidore case could open the door to funding of Jewish school too admits in this article that in Oklahoma (like in many places) there is too small a Jewish population for that to be practical. www.jta.org/2025/02/10/u...
Trump cited the case of a woman violating Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act for why we need an "Anti-Christian Bias" Task Force. But it's not anti-Christian to enforce a neutral and generally applicable law. My colleague @andrewlseidel.bsky.social explains: www.au.org/the-latest/a...
Unfortunately, this bill is not a joke. Please spread the word that now is the time to join Americans United for Separation of Church and State if there ever was one. au.org
