Friend,

From day one of his candidacy, President Trump promised the religious right he would reshape America into a Christian nation. He is doing his best to deliver on that promise.

Today, two of his Supreme Court appointees helped deal a huge blow to the separation of church and state by effectively legalizing government funding for religious education.

The ruling opens the door for lawmakers to spend your tax dollars not just on religious education, but potentially on many other explicitly religious activities.

As you know all too well, this isn't the first shot the religious right has taken at the Establishment Clause through President Trump and his cronies.

The Washington Post had to fact-check Trump's claim that he "got rid" of the Johnson Amendment because he said it so often, and his recent, well documented photo-op with a Bible was so important he had protesters tear gassed to ensure he made it on-time.

Attorney General Bill Barr, who ordered that unacceptable attack, has blamed secularism in society for a series of problems including drug overdoses, violence, and mental health challenges. This, while he leads a Justice Department that attacks the LGBTQ+ community and argues for the criminalization of reproductive health procedures like abortion.

Trump has nominated openly biased judges to the bench like Justin Walker, failed to act on major human rights issues like the genocide of Uighurs by China, and allowed religious right activists to proselytize from the White House lawn.

All these actions are a massive threat to our community, and they are compounded by the abject failure of this administration to handle the COVID-19 pandemic using science, evidence, and expert guidance, which has put everyone's health and safety in jeopardy.

Now, more than ever, we need to fight tooth and nail for change in the halls of Congress and every state house in the country. The secular nature of our country is at stake, and right now, even the Constitution hasn't been enough to protect the rights of nonbelievers.