Hi friend,

Earlier this week Marjorie Taylor Greene said that the recent earthquake in New Jersey and the solar eclipse were "God sending America strong signs to tell us to repent." This is, simply, another example of Christian nationalism in all its ugliness.

Of course, we know earthquakes are actually caused by plate tectonics and solar eclipses are simply acelestial events that occur because the moon doesn't orbit on the same plane as the Earth and sun.

But Greene's message is clear: It's her God that we need to listen to and its her religious beliefs that should be a controlling force for government policy.

Yet, the concept of separation of church and state is fairly straightforward and enshrined in the First Amendment:  

1) The establishment clause of this amendment protects against governmental endorsement and imposition of religion 

2) The free exercise clause ensures the right to practice your faith, but significantly, doing so without harming others. 

These important clauses are what keeps our country from becoming a theocracy.

This election is about democracy; it's about our individual freedoms and its about the separation of our faith beliefs from government policy.

These are, in fact, very dangerous times for our nation.  I'm running as a Democrat because I believe in protecting the right to practice one's faith but to ensure our individual beliefs are not imposed on others.  Without that separation, we are no longer America.