Trump’s Advisor Attacks Separation of Church and State
August 3, 2020Trump campaign advisor Jenna Ellis came out swinging on behalf of Christian nationalism during a campaign event hosted by Asian Pacific Americans for Trump. Ellis told attendees that the separation between church and state is a myth.
“The left is going to tell you there’s this separation of church and state, and that’s just nowhere in the Constitution, nowhere in American law,” she said during a Zoom event. “That’s nothing that our founding principles ever, uh, derived whatsoever.”
“As faith-based Christians and pastors and faith leaders, we need to be telling truth about protecting and preserving religious freedom in our country… and especially protecting and preserving the church’s authority in our society,” she said. “And so that’s what President Trump so remarkably [did] with his walk from the White House over to St. James [sic] Church.”
As ‘LGBTQ Nation’ reports, Ellis praised Trump for his infamous photo op in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church at the height of public demands for racial justice, where the president had protestors outside the White House teargassed so he could cross the park to stand in front of the church holding a Bible.
“For him to go out and hold up that Bible in front of the church and acknowledge that religious liberty prevails in America like no other society and nation that ever existed in the face of the Earth—that is what our freedom is all about.”
Earlier this year, she claimed, “‘separation of church and state’ is a myth perpetuated by liberals to pretend morality and religion cannot be part of the government.”
Ellis has claimed that “Christians cannot follow God and accept or condone or participate in homosexuality”; and said gay and bisexual men have higher rates of HIV because “we cannot escape God’s moral law and His supremacy”.
Ellis formerly worked for the James Dobson Family Institute. The group’s founder and namesake also started Focus on the Family, one of the most vociferous anti-LGBTQ hate groups in the nation.
“While the literal words ‘wall of separation between church and state’ don’t appear in the Constitution, the concept of church-state separation certainly does,” Americans United for Separation of Church and State wrote in response to the religious-right argument. “If you doubt that, just read the writings of Jefferson, James Madison and generations of U.S. Supreme Court justices tasked with interpreting and applying the Constitution. We’re gonna take their word for it.”
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