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The Jewish woman leading the fight against American Christian nationalism
Times of Israel ^ | 02 04 2025 | Asaf Elia-Shalev

Posted on 02/04/2025 2:09:42 PM PST by yesthatjallen

JTA — For decades, Americans United for Separation of Church and State called its adversaries “religious extremists.” Today, the group has a more specific target: fighting Christian nationalism.

The decision to sharpen the language was made by Rachel Laser, the group’s president for the last six years. A Jew and the first member of a religious minority to lead Americans United since its founding in 1947, Laser wanted the group to be more clear-eyed about what she sees as a growing threat to religious pluralism in the United States: the belief that American laws should favor Christian values over those of other religions.

But it was not an easy decision for her to make.

“On some deep level, I worry about alienating Christians, as many Jews do,” Laser wrote last year in the group’s magazine. “When you are part of a mere 2% of the population, it can feel perilous to risk fostering adversity with 65% of the population.”

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Rachel and friends.


1 posted on 02/04/2025 2:09:42 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

She isn’t Jewish. She is an atheist.


2 posted on 02/04/2025 2:11:08 PM PST by montag813
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To: yesthatjallen

If it wasn’t this it would be Save the Whales, or Global Warming, or any of the other half dozen or so faux issue the left uses to justify causing trouble.


3 posted on 02/04/2025 2:11:28 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: yesthatjallen

There is no “Christian Nationalism”. This nonsense is shameless demogagary and gaslighting by those who cannot make an intellectually honest rational argument for their opinions.


4 posted on 02/04/2025 2:11:45 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: yesthatjallen
Does organized "Christian Nationalism" really exist?

Or is it easy to oppose because it's a strawman to accuse people they don't like for other reasons?

5 posted on 02/04/2025 2:11:56 PM PST by Salman (In Hell it is a punishable offense not to call it Heaven.)
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To: montag813

Why are you telling her what she is?

Why are you telling others what she is?

You don’t think she knows?


6 posted on 02/04/2025 2:12:26 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: BenLurkin

No, it wouldn’t be.

Singling out Christianity in your mind equates to Save The Whales?

WOW.


7 posted on 02/04/2025 2:13:20 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Rachel Laser sounds like the stage name of an early nineties adult film actress.


8 posted on 02/04/2025 2:14:39 PM PST by Antihero101607
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To: yesthatjallen

Lot of anti Americans in that picture.


9 posted on 02/04/2025 2:15:03 PM PST by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: dp0622

What’s your boggle, FRiend? The cadre of left-wing “activists” always rotates from one cause to the other. It really doesn’t matter to them what the “issue” is.


10 posted on 02/04/2025 2:15:04 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Or, she could take this opportunity to thank Christian nationalists for founding a country where she’s free to be a raving bitch in public.


11 posted on 02/04/2025 2:15:08 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino and)
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To: yesthatjallen

There are exactly zero Christian Nationalists in America.

It’s a make believe, made up MSM pejorative to demonize Christian conservatives.


12 posted on 02/04/2025 2:15:22 PM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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To: MNJohnnie

America is a Biblical Nation, and YESHUA is it’s King. And everyone who doesn’t like it can get over it.


13 posted on 02/04/2025 2:15:39 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING 0F AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: dp0622

No, it’s just he’s highlighting stupid causes this lady would jump to, next.

This is already a stupid cause.

Lady, let’s all go to Israel and protest its Jewish bent.


14 posted on 02/04/2025 2:16:37 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: yesthatjallen

There’s no legitimate threat of American Christian nationalism.

This is just another attempt to limit the free exercise of religion guaranteed in the Constitution.

“Separation of church and state” is NOT in the Constitution.

“No State church” is in the Constitution. That’s it.

As usual, the Left tries to confuse the issue.

Individuals in gov’t can practice religion all day long. Monuments all around Washington D.C. testify to that. It is only the GOV’T that cannot FORCE a NATIONAL religion on us. (Our Founders did not want another Church of England” here.)


15 posted on 02/04/2025 2:18:24 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Rachel Laser is ...

Not ...

Coherent.

;’}


16 posted on 02/04/2025 2:18:49 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: yesthatjallen

How she even looked at the religious make up of the new administration? And when did Jewish values clash with Christian values? Or does she just ignore are whole “Judeo-Christian” national heritage?

Or perhaps she is a self-loathing Jew who hates the thought that many Christians reverently believe in and support Israel and the Jewish people?


17 posted on 02/04/2025 2:19:53 PM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: yesthatjallen
Radical theorem, amplified version:

The issue is never the issue. The issue is always removing Christ from America to make room for the revolution.

They've just pulled the curtain completely away now.

18 posted on 02/04/2025 2:21:16 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Jim W N

The real question is:
Can and should religious beliefs be the basis for governmental policy? or should religious revelation have anything to do with laws and public policy?


19 posted on 02/04/2025 2:21:23 PM PST by Aeneas2112 (Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. Donald Trump)
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...growing threat to religious pluralism in the United States: the belief that American laws should favor Christian values over those of other religions.

US Constitution ends with "Year of our Lord..."

20 posted on 02/04/2025 2:21:42 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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