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On February 23^rd, a Politico National Investigative Correspondent, Heidi Przybyla, made the audacious claim that anyone who believes our rights are derived from God is a Christian Nationalist.

She said that "The thing that unites them as Christian nationalists... is that they believe that our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don't come from any earthly authority. They don't come from Congress, they don't come from the Supreme Court. They come from God."

"And in the past, that so-called natural law is, you know, it's a pillar of Catholicism, for instance. It has been used for good in social justice campaigns, Martin Luther King evoked it in talking about civil rights," she continued.

"[B]ut now you have an extremist element of conservative Christians who say that this applies specifically to issues including abortion, gay marriage, and it's going much further than that."

At no point in her alarmist diatribe did Ms. Pryzbyla acknowledge the fact that our American Republic was founded upon the ideas of natural law and God-given rights. Nor did she acknowledge the plain text of the Declaration of Independence, America's founding document.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

Christians and conservatives know these words from the Declaration of Independence by heart. When they were penned by Thomas Jefferson, they established a nation predicated on "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God."

The Left has been in control of our educational institutions for so long that these basic principles are treated as foreign by the very people who ought to know better.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas once remarked that the Left was "trying to repudiate and remove the whole concept of natural law, replacing it totally with positive law, which is man-made law."

Ms. Pryzbyla's manifestly prejudicial views against Christians constitute a malicious smear; an attempt to spread lies about Christians and Christianity and portray them as a distinct and, in her words, "extremist" threat to the country. She is trying to demonize Christians and spread fear through propaganda.

How is it that a Politico journalist could be so ignorant of American history, its founding philosophy, and even the Declaration of Independence that she could believe these principles were a "fringe" and "extremist" threat to the country?

John, how can the founding principles of a nation ever be a threat to it, unless those in positions of power sought to radically reorder society?

Brian Burch, with Catholic Vote, and I wrote a letter to Politico asking that they and Ms. Pryzbyla apologize for her profoundly prejudicial view toward American Christians who are exercising their rights as citizens to be involved in the political process.

In what Politico claims was an apology, Ms. Pryzbyla wrote in a published piece:

"Due to some clumsy words, I was interpreted by some people as making arguments that are quite different from what I believe."

This was not an accident. This is the long running pattern of the legacy media, which has routinely and openly displayed disdain for Christians.

Some of you may remember 30 years ago the infamous statement by the Washington Post that members of the religious right are "largely poor, uneducated and easy to command."

The primary target of their slander has always been and will always be Bible-believing Christians. They want to silence us and push us out of the public square by making us feel like we are alone in our so-called "extreme" views.

Our rights come from God, and the historical ignorance and malicious smears of one ideologically motivated journalist will not change that. But this cannot go unchallenged.

Family Research Council is demanding an apology for this demonizing smear. Will you join us?

Our goal is to gather thousands of signatures from like-minded believers just like you from across the country who will not let attacks like this go unanswered and deliver them to Politico, demanding they apologize for calling Christians "extremists."

Thank you for standing with FRC against these anti-Christian and unamerican lies.

I, the undersigned, along with the Family Research Council, am outraged by the malicious smears made against the Christian faith by Heidi Przybyla. Her comments stand in opposition to my faith, and the fundamental principles of our great nation. I demand that Politico immediately apologize for these malicious lies and historical ignorance.