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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She isn’t Jewish. She is an atheist.
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.
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.
Or is it easy to oppose because it's a strawman to accuse people they don't like for other reasons?
Why are you telling her what she is?
Why are you telling others what she is?
You don’t think she knows?
No, it wouldn’t be.
Singling out Christianity in your mind equates to Save The Whales?
WOW.
Rachel Laser sounds like the stage name of an early nineties adult film actress.
Lot of anti Americans in that picture.
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.
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.
There are exactly zero Christian Nationalists in America.
It’s a make believe, made up MSM pejorative to demonize Christian conservatives.
America is a Biblical Nation, and YESHUA is it’s King. And everyone who doesn’t like it can get over it.
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.
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.)
Rachel Laser is ...
Not ...
Coherent.
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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?
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.
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?
US Constitution ends with "Year of our Lord..."
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