The guest on the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s “Freethought Matters” Sunday TV show is a leading constitutional expert with a new book warning about the current Supreme Court’s pro-religion bent.
Andrew Seidel is vice president of strategic communications for Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. Before that, he was a constitutional attorney and strategic response director at FFRF. His first book, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American, was released in 2019. Seidel’s new work, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom, was published this fall by Union Square & Co.
“The Supreme Court really is destroying the First Amendment,” Seidel tells “Freethought Matters” co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. “There is a well-funded group of Christian nationalist organizations that are working to alter the meaning of the First Amendment, to change that long-standing protection of religious freedom into a weapon, a tool that conservative Christians can use to impose their religion on other people.”
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