Trump Allies Embrace 'Christian Nationalism'

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5. The Supreme Court already neutered it in several cases.

If you’re a right-wing evangelical, you can use your personal religious beliefs to have a corporation deny its employees the right to have their health insurance cover the cost of birth control (Hobby Lobby). Using the excuse of maybe someday starting a web business and maybe somehow getting asked by a gay couple to create a site for them gives you the right to discriminate against a protected class of citizens based on your religion. Same with baking a cake.

If you’re a white evangelical, you can start a Christian school to indoctrinate kids and have taxpayers pay for it. If you already have a religious school, you can refuse to hire LGBTQ+ teachers, refuse to admit LGBTQ+ students, and refuse to admit students with same-sex parents without fear of violating discrimination laws and getting taxpayer money to do so.

And the big one, if you’re a white Republican legislator, you get to enact your religious beliefs into law to make the reproductive medical decisions for all the women of reproductive age in your state. Soon, those same legislators will determine even more medical treatment by outlawing all firms of birth control.

These court decisions are all egregious violations of the separation of church and state intended in the First Amendment. We are already living under Christian Nationalism in red states.