[VanDeKoik]

A better way of putting it:

“I value my core Christian faith as one of the top priorities in my life, and lean on it to guide me through good and bad times.”

NOT:

“I’m a Christian First, American Second”

Is this really difficult to understand how poorly-delivered that was?

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

A better way of putting it: "I value my core Christian faith as one of the top priorities in my life"

Your relationship with the Creator of the universe is ONE of the top priorities of your life?

What could possibly be equal to a person's relationship with God?

[Theophilus]

Is this really difficult to understand how poorly-delivered that was?

Two Corinthians 3:12
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: