America turned 250 this year — and the Trump administration did its best to infuse Christian nationalism into the historic anniversary.
On Episode 55, FFRF Deputy Legal Director Liz Cavell, Americans United for Separation of Church and State Legal Director Rebecca Markert and National Women’s Law Center Director of Nominations & Democracy Alison Gill dive into how the Trump administration is using America’s 250th birthday as a way to rewrite the past and the present. They discuss how the administration hijacked the nation’s planned bipartisan 250th anniversary celebration and turned it into a taxpayer-funded Christian nationalist prayer revival, before moving on to tackle the report issued by the “Taskforce to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias,’ one of several task forces created by the administration to manufacture a “Christian persecution” narrative to privilege conservative Christianity under the law.
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