President Trump Blasts Senator for Anti-Christian Trade

Sometimes you hear something come out of Washington that makes you shake your head and wonder how far we’ve drifted from the principles that built this country. Last week was one of those moments.

Remember how we told you that Senator Tim Kaine (VA) – the same Tim Kaine who once ran as Hillary Clinton’s running mate – used a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing last Wednesday to take issue with the fundamental belief that our rights come from God.

President Trump – who appears to have been leaning in hard on religious liberty, anti-Christian bias, and defending the Judeo-Christian roots of our nation – wasted no time calling Kaine out. Speaking at the Museum of the Bible just days later, the President revealed his belief that the need for his new DOJ task force to combat anti-Christian bias had never been clearer, telling the crowd:

We’re here this morning to discuss the grave threats to religious liberty in American schools. For most of our country’s history, the Bible is found in every classroom in the nation. Yet in many schools today, students are instead indoctrinated with anti-religious propaganda, and some are even punished for their religious beliefs and very, very strongly punished. It’s ridiculous.

President Trump went on to describe Kaine as an “ineffectual Senator from Virginia” who ought to be ashamed. He reminded the audience that tyrants and dictators deny rights, not those who affirm that rights come from God.

And Trump is right. Our God-given rights are the very foundation on which this nation was built. Strip them away, and the entire republic will crumble – especially if we find ourselves left to the arbitrary will of politicians and bureaucrats.

And what will those politicians do when the corporations and special interest groups that support their campaigns start making demands? Senator Kaine’s words could result in a very slippery slope for our constitutional republic, unless people like you and I pay attention and act.

Some, particularly the mainstream media, might roll their eyes at the President’s words and say the idea of anti-Christian bias is just more paranoid right-wing rhetoric. But if you’ve been paying attention, you know it’s real.

Under the Biden Administration, we watched the DOJ go after pro-life protesters – including an 87-year-old woman and a 75-year-old priest – with federal criminal charges that carried multiyear prison sentences. We told you how the FBI was caught targeting “radical traditionalist Catholics,” and whistleblowers exposed that the Richmond memo was circulated nationwide. And let’s not forget how last year we reported how the Army was training troops to view pro-life groups such as Operation Rescue as terrorists. This isn’t paranoia. These are just a few documented abuses of power.

The bottom line is that when Kaine lumps the Declaration of Independence in with Shia law, he either doesn’t understand our founding documents, or he just doesn’t care. Neither option is flattering for a U.S. Senator. And remember – if rights come only from the government, then segregation laws, slavery, and Jim Crow were legitimate because they were “the law of the land.” By Kaine’s logic, the government can create or destroy rights at will. That’s exactly the kind of thinking our Founders rebelled against.

Today’s Sekulow broadcast included more analysis of Senator Tim Kaine’s absurd assertion about the source of our rights, and we were joined by ACLJ Senior Counsel for International and Government Affairs Jeff Balabon to discuss the latest terrorist attack in Jerusalem that left multiple people dead – a stark reminder that Israel remains susceptible to terrorism.  

Watch the full broadcast below: