Christians, please listen. There is no national religion in America.

September 25, 2022

Senior Policy Fellow Linda Stamato writes about the threat to the separation of church and state in this opinion piece published by nj.com

“The Founding Fathers abhorred the concept of a national religion. They believed that state support would in the long run, harm, not help, faith. We would be well advised to revisit their thinking, and the experiences that prompted it, as we confront, increasingly, a push to create a national religion, often enough by those who think we already have one: Christianity.”

Read the entire post at the link below.

NJ.com 9/25/22

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