Dupage Policy Journal

U.S. Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) signed on with the Secular Democrats of America, which is pushing for President-elect Joe Biden to come down on conservative Christians and remove them from public office.

The WVW Broadcast Network claims the group has pushed for Biden’s team to strip First Amendment rights from Christians who are known to advocate anti-abortion policies, marriage, education and the nuclear family.

The group sent a letter to Biden asking him to restore constitutional secularism and patriotic pluralism when he takes office on Jan. 20. 

Brannon Howse, a conservative radio host, said the group doesn’t have an issue with churches, only churches that have members that voted for President Donald Trump. 

“As long as you’re teaching a leftist progressive socialist religiosity you’ll be just fine, but if you preach anything that is wrapped around a Judeo-Christian value system they’re coming after you,” Howse said, WVW Broadcast Network reported. “They’re telling Biden don’t use the term Judeo-Christian. They don’t like that term.”

The letter to Biden says that religion and government have become entangled and that needs to end. 

“The constant entanglement of religion and government—promoted by the religious right and intensified by the Trump administration—sweeps far beyond hot-button ‘culture war’ issues like abortion and contraception,” the letter states. “It permeates every aspect of government policy— healthcare, public and private education, foreign policy, tax policy, environmental policy, military policy, and more, all of which will be addressed in this document.”

The document calls certain Christians “white nationalists” and equates them to “white supremacy.”

“We urge you not to underestimate the institutional strength of what we refer to (interchangeably) in this document as the ‘Christian nationalist movement’ or the ‘religious right.’ … Its extreme and sectarian agenda is on constant display under the Trump-Pence administration. Its political ideology is anti-democratic and anti-scientific. It provides constant cover for white supremacy,” the letter states.