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Prez & CEO @AmericansUnited (for separation of church and state); Mom; Yogi; Freedom Fighter
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Rachel Laser
Dr Deb K
about 1 month ago
The White Christian Nationalist Project 2025 takeover of this Country by the Roberts Court & wealthy religious extremists is alarming but can be fought. Rachel Laser
@rachellaser.bsky.social
is a champion. So she should come back to BlueSky.
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Rachel Laser
Dahlia Lithwick
about 1 month ago
With
@rachellaser.bsky.social
of Americans United on all the many many ways church is crowding out state, and why it all started at SCOTUS
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Church and State are Being Reunited, Thanks to SCOTUS | Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
An unholy alliance between the Roberts majority and the Trump administration is demolishing the separation of church and state.
https://shows.acast.com/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts/episodes/69ab3e6db49eecc0b7c56858
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Rachel Laser
Brian Kaylor
about 2 months ago
Good
@cnn.com
article on how "Trump has chipped away at the long-standing wall between church & state." Nice to be included in the piece to offer a warning/critique of Trump admin's
#ChristianNationalism
(along with
@rachellaser.bsky.social
&
@randallbalmer.bsky.social
).
www.cnn.com/2026/02/15/p...
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Trump has chipped away at the long-standing wall between church and state. It’s just the beginning | CNN Politics
A series of faith initiatives championed by the White House has led to a systematic religious revival within the government’s operations, culture and policy.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/15/politics/trump-religious-liberty-commission-church-state-separation
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Nice piece on how religious extremist groups are directly taking on the Constitutional requirement of no religious tests for public office.
@svantemyrick.bsky.social
thehill.com/opinion/judi...
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https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5323763-religious-test-supreme-court-judges/
10 months ago
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Rachel Laser
Berman Archive at Stanford
11 months ago
This is a big moment for religious freedom in America.
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Rachel Laser
Berman Archive at Stanford
11 months ago
Read our interview with
@rachellaser.bsky.social
of
@americansunited.bsky.social
on just what was at stake (and still is) with today's ruling:
bermanarchive.stanford.edu/church-state...
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Church, State, Jews - Berman Archive
The separation of church and state has been a cornerstone of the American experience, but like so many things in this country, long held beliefs and practices have been under threat. The public fundin...
https://bermanarchive.stanford.edu/church-state-jews/
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Rachel Laser
Will (Faithful Politics)
11 months ago
June's lineup is 🔥👀 Here’s who’s joining us soon on Faithful Politics: →
@shannonmfleck.bsky.social
→
@rachellaser.bsky.social
→
@jessicahuseman.bsky.social
→
@brandanrobertson.bsky.social
→
@profgagne.bsky.social
→
@peter-wehner.bsky.social
→
@aprilajoy.bsky.social
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Supreme Court deadlocks, leaving in place the ruling stopping the nations first religious public school
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Supreme Court deadlocks, blocking creation of first religious public school
With only eight justices voting, the 4-4 tie leaves in place an Oklahoma State Supreme Court ruling that the school violates the separation of church and state.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/22/supreme-court-oklahoma-religious-charter-schools/
11 months ago
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Reminder: the assault on/erasure of transgender people is based on one set of religious views about gender, as exemplified by Trump's EO on gender, which defines gender as beginning at conception. The government shouldn't impose one religion's beliefs on all of us.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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Supreme Court allows Trump to implement transgender military ban
The blanket ban, expanding on a similar policy Trump proposed in his first term, has been blocked nationwide by lower courts.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-trump-implement-transgender-military-ban-rcna204135
11 months ago
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Rachel Laser
Mathew Helman
11 months ago
The right-wing
#SCOTUS
Justices appear content to disregard the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Extremely distressing. cc:
@americansunited.bsky.social
@rachellaser.bsky.social
@ffrf.org
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I continue to see eye to eye with
@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social
, a conservative columnist, in many instances- such as this one. An astute piece about how Christian Nationalism is a political ideology- not a Christian one.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...
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Opinion | The Christian Right Is Going Extinct
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/opinion/trump-evangelicals-republicans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
11 months ago
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Veterans affairs agency orders staff to report each other for ‘anti-Christian bias’
New taskforce demands names in rooting out ‘policies, procedures … or understandings hostile to Christian views’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/22/veterans-affairs-anti-christian-bias
12 months ago
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Emphasizing how Christian Nationalism also works against the wrong kind of Christian (h/t KatherineStewart and Kristin Kobes Du Mez)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump has put Christian nationalists in key roles – say a prayer for free speech
Experts warn that a specific brand of Christianity will be prioritized and lead to a ‘further dismantling’ of institutions
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/16/christian-nationalists-trump-administration
12 months ago
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reposted by
Rachel Laser
Angie Coiro
12 months ago
Tmrw 10am Pacific, I'll talk with Notre Dame law prof Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer;
@spencerwoodman.bsky.social
of
@icij.org
; &
@rachellaser.bsky.social
of Americans United, about whether and how the IRS enforces tax regulations on religious institutions. Join us:
kalw.org
. Taking your questions & comments!
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https://kalw.org
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A beautiful summary of
@americansunited.bsky.social
Summit for Religious Freedom. Thank you,
@faithfulpolitics.bsky.social
for attending, for your good work, and for insisting that our movement be a big tent.
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12 months ago
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Rachel Laser
Word&Way
12 months ago
“Given that the country is a majority Christian country, if we don’t have Christians with us on church-state separation, we’re in big trouble. So we really appreciate having Christians with our cause, I say as the leader of AU and as a Jew.” -
@rachellaser.bsky.social
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Supporting Church-State Separation With Faithful Challenges to Christian Nationalism
“I believe in the separation of church and state.
https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/supporting-church-state-separation
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Rachel Laser
David R. Brockman, Ph.D.
about 1 year ago
What an honor to participate yesterday w/ (L-R)
@texaspublicradio.bsky.social
's David Martin Davies, Rep. James Talarico &
@americansunited.bsky.social
head
@rachellaser.bsky.social
in a lively discussion of church-state separation issues. Will post links to the video when available
#txed
#txlege
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Rachel Laser
Rebecca Kennison
about 1 year ago
“Christian nationalists are clear they want to replace public education with religious education because it indoctrinates a new generation of Americans in their faith and their lie that America was supposed to be a Christian nation.” -
@rachellaser.bsky.social
, CEO of
@americansunited.bsky.social
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Rachel Laser
Berman Archive at Stanford
about 1 year ago
Religious freedom will be tested next month with a major Supreme Court case. We interviewed
@rachellaser.bsky.social
, CEO of
@americansunited.bsky.social
to learn about the case and its implications for Jews and all religious minorities in this country.
bermanarchive.stanford.edu/church-state...
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Looking forward to this! Good to be back in Texas. So much energy here to fight the overreach of religious extremists.
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about 1 year ago
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My friend
@robertpjones.bsky.social
speaks truth to power. Trump's anti-Christian bias task force is, in fact, anti-Christian.
contrarian.substack.com/p/what-anti-...
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What "Anti-Christian Bias" does for Trump
The president's executive order is a vehicle for white evangelical Protestant Christian favoritism, but it is also a weapon against other Christians.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/what-anti-christian-bias-does-for
about 1 year ago
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Christian Nationalist government leaders are no longer even trying to hide the religious basis for their policies.
www.au.org/the-latest/a...
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Federal agency head says Trump and ‘the Lord’ bless discriminatory policies - Americans United
For years, Americans United warned about creeping Christian Nationalism and the nation’s shift toward theocracy. We see it now reflected at the highest levels of our federal government.
https://www.au.org/the-latest/articles/federal-agency-head-says-trump-and-the-lord-bless-discriminatory-policies/
about 1 year ago
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It's not only that JD Vance got his Catholicism wrong (according to Pope Francis), it's also that he is using his personal religion to justify US policy. SEPARATE CHURCH & STATE. It's the American way!
newrepublic.com/article/1914...
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Pope Francis’s Stunning Rebuke of JD Vance Exposes MAGA’s Dark Soul
The vice president took a stab at theology to defend the administration’s rank cruelty. Then a higher authority weighed in.
https://newrepublic.com/article/191427/pope-francis-jd-vance-maga-dark-soul
about 1 year ago
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The (Orthodox) Jewish former congressman advocating for how the St. Isidore case could open the door to funding of Jewish school too admits in this article that in Oklahoma (like in many places) there is too small a Jewish population for that to be practical.
www.jta.org/2025/02/10/u...
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A Supreme Court case could pave the way for publicly funded Jewish day schools - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The question before the court is whether publicly funded schools should ever be allowed to promote religion.
https://www.jta.org/2025/02/10/united-states/a-supreme-court-case-could-pave-the-way-for-publicly-funded-jewish-day-schools
about 1 year ago
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Trump cited the case of a woman violating Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act for why we need an "Anti-Christian Bias" Task Force. But it's not anti-Christian to enforce a neutral and generally applicable law. My colleague
@andrewlseidel.bsky.social
explains:
www.au.org/the-latest/a...
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Truth and disinformation: Trump’s example of anti-Christian bias is anything but - Americans United
To justify his new "Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias," Pres. Trump spewed disinformation about anti-abortion activist Paula Paulette Harlow.
https://www.au.org/the-latest/articles/anti-christian-bias-harlow-trump/
about 1 year ago
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Unfortunately, this bill is not a joke. Please spread the word that now is the time to join Americans United for Separation of Church and State if there ever was one.
au.org
about 1 year ago
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