Considerable effort has been expended to paint many people of religious faith (particularly Evangelical Protestants and conservative Catholics) as seeking to run roughshod over our precious First Amendment religious liberty protections and safeguards, the Christian Post website reports today (June 3, 2025).
This is nothing more than a political scare tactic, seeking to elevate certain fringe groups to a level of influence they do not have, and God willing, never will have.
On the contrary, the vast majority of Evangelicals, conservative Catholics, and other people of faith believe it is their obligation and duty to bring their faith convictions to bear on the moral issues of the day and to seek to influence their fellow citizens to do the "right thing" in terms of public virtue.
Aftr all, America has been a faith--based country from the beginning. This has been our tradition and heritage from the Pilgrims onward.
Critics and analysts deride conventional Christian conservatives as Christian nationalists. There are, by this definition, tens of millions of Christian nationalists. Sometimes, even civil religion, with its homage to a vague deity, is labeled Christian nationalism.
Christian nationalists sometimes sport paraphernalia with American flags draped around the cross. These folk religionists usually aren't aware they are Christian nationalists. They don't have articulated policy agendas, just an attitude that God and country should be interchangeably honored.