On Thursday – which was the National Day of Prayer – Donald Trump signed an executive order, creating a Presidential Committee on Religious Freedom. During the White House event, he openly questioned the principle of separation between church and state.
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Trump made his appeal to Christian’s supporters in his second term. He has also set up a White House Faith Service-the American Televangelist Paula White is to lead him-and set up a “working group to eradicate anti-Christian biases” in the government.
In clip Responding to the social media of the event, Trump told his advisers of faith: “They work immediately from the White House. This has never been done so far. No other president has allowed it. They say” a separation between church and state, “I told me. I said, well, let’s forget about it for one time. “
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He continued: “We said, separation, is it really good or bad? I’m not sure, but whether there is a separation or not, you are in the White House where you have to be, and you represent our country. And we bring back religion to our country. And this is a big deal.”
The newly formed Trump Committee on Religious Freedom will be chaired by a Lieutenant of Texas Dan Patrick, an Evgel Christian who described the United States as a “Christian Nation” and claims that the Constitution does not contain “any division of the church and the state.” The committee, which is composed mainly by Christian members (there is one rabbi), includes Dr. Ben Carson as a deputy chairman, television presenter Dr Phil, Cardinal Timothy and Kelly Shakelford, CEO of First Liberty, a conservative legal group based in Plan.
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The first amendment of the Constitution prohibits the congress from making some law “respecting the creation of religion or prohibits the free exercise of them.” This clause, called the establishment clause, has long been interpreted as establishing the principle of separation between church and state.
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The US Supreme Court has upheld this interpretation in key cases, such as Eveson against Board of Education (1947), which applies the state -owned governments clause, and Engel against Vitale (1962), which overturned a state -sponsored prayer in public schools. These decisions reflect long efforts to maintain the government’s neutrality in religious affairs.
Now people say Trump’s remarks and actions seem to be directly challenging this tradition. “Let’s forget about everything in the Constitution,” one person wrote in response to Trump’s comments.
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“Why don’t you just pull out the constitution of pieces while you are on it,” another said.
“He treats the first amendment as a parking ticket: annoying, optional and easy to ignore,” someone else said.
Even legislators started talking. American representative Jared Hurseman said: “The division of the church and the state was created to protect Americans from this kind of religious favoritism. No religion should reign supreme – and everyone should remain separate from the government.”
Another user repeated such anxiety: “As a Christian, I never wanted the government to have anything my faith, and that also means this crew.”
Well, since Trump fills the advice of faith and committees with extremely Christian figures and questioned the fundamental constitutional principles, one thing is becoming more clear: his vision of “religious freedom” seems to be closely brought into line with an idea -more Christian nationalism.
But let me know your thoughts in the comments. What do you think of Trump, who says, “Let’s forget” about the separation between the church and the state “for one time”?
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