‘An undemocratic agenda that seeks the very opposite of what they claim to do’
By Bob Unruh
‘In God We Trust’ is emblazoned above the American flag in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. (Video screenshot)
Democrats in Congress are being called out for hijacking a hearing on worldwide religious persecution to put a bull’s-eye on American Christians for their alleged “Christian nationalism” in a new column at the Washington Stand.
It is Arielle Del Turco, director of the Center for Religious Liberty at Family Research Council, who documented how U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost, a Florida Democrat, “ignored the topic of global persecution entirely in his questioning of witnesses, instead pointing the finger at Christians in the United States.”
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Frost complained, “Christian nationalism is a form of religious extremism making its way into our policies and undermining our democracy. These extremist actors are co-opting the language of Christianity and religious freedom to push an undemocratic agenda that seeks the very opposite of what they claim to do.”
Frost’s blast at Christians came at a hearing of the House Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs.
Instead, Del Turco said, “House Democrats chose to highlight the contrived problem of Christian nationalism in the United States.”
Joining Frost was Amanda Tyler, of the Baptist Joint Committee, which has wanted to ban symbols of faith such as the Bladensburg Peace Cross and a WWI Veterans Memorial in Maryland.