'No Separation Of Church And State': Trump's Religious Liberty Commission Reveals Its Priorities

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Huff Post/AP

May 10, 2026, 09:22 PM EDT


One member calls for a Presidential Medal of Freedom for a baker who refused to create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. Another calls for court interventions by the Department of Justice on behalf of Amish parents fighting New York vaccine requirements and Catholic nuns challenging that state’s requirement that they accommodate hospice patients’ gender identities.

And the chair of the Religious Liberty Commission is calling for a federal hotline with this automated recording: “There is no separation of church and state.”. These are just some of the recommendations that members of the advisory panel formed by President Donald Trump last year want to see included in the commission’s final report.

That report is still in the works, but commissioners had an opportunity to describe their wish lists during their most recent meeting in April. There was little dissent as the commissioners, most drawn from Trump’s base of conservative Christian supporters, covered the items they want in the report.

Their ideas reflect the prevailing perspectives on the definition of religious liberty among many conservative Catholic and evangelical activists: increasing avenues for religious expression in public schools; expanding opportunities for faith-based organizations to receive public money; and allowing for religious-based exemptions in areas ranging from labor law to classroom lessons to healthcare mandates. Such views have also been reflected in Supreme Court decisions issued in recent years by its conservative majority.

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[ahnakneemoose]

1. I cannot abide these priorities and shall seek ways to abridge them.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Glad I don't live there.

[cstanleytech]

5. I wish I had the financial ability not to.

[johnnyfins]

3. Why dont they just call it

The Gilead Group.

[ChicagoTeamster]

4. So is the Supreme Court going to invalidate the 1st Amendment like they did the Civil Rights Act?

They really just want more access to government money. And they'll take a legal right to discriminate as a bonus. There should be no discrimination in hiring or accommodation based on religion. Should a doctor be allowed to say they won't treat Evangelicals because he or she hates religious bigots? Their oath and state laws regulating their licenses require them to treat everybody.

If anything, businesses should be able to deny people discussing or expressing anything that could cause division in a workplace. That includes religion and politics. Take that arguing home. And, no Facebooking during work hours either. That includes you remote workers.

The KKKristians want school voucher money but they don't want the Islamic schools or Hebrew schools to get any. They've already tried it in Texas and Arkansas.

[travelingthrulife]

11. They are Christian Nationalists. They expect to rum the whole country.

See the '7 Mountains' bs. Romney was into that as well.

[GiqueCee]

6. H. L. Mencken nailed it...

... when he said, "Religion is the greatest fomenter of hatred and intolerance in the history of humanity."
A Handmaid's Tale was a novel, not an instruction manual.

[wolfie001]

7. He wasn't a perfect man, but he was 100% correct on this

I haven't set foot in a church in over 20 years and I ain't going back. Waste of my fucking time.

[Gum Logger]

16. The devil lurks in Christ's shadow

[tanyev]

8. Ah, but which church?

As soon as the church becomes part of the state, then the religious wars kick off as each religion and denomination defends their beliefs as the correct ones.

That’s WHY the concept of separation of church and state developed.

[Pinback]

15. Flying Spaghetti Monster or Satan?

I’m torn.

[GiqueCee]

17. Ah, ah, ah...

... careful now. Logic and reason has no place in any discussion involving religion, not with the likes of Christian Nationalists lurking in the shadows. They're the American version of the bloodthirsty Taliban, and do not mean well to anyone.

[lastlib]

18. One of my favorite quotes:

"It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact, that men have gone to war and cut each other's throats because they could not agree as to what was to become of them after their throats were cut."--

Walter Parker Stacy

[modrepub]

9. I Suggest We All Convert

to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Pastafarianism.

We can push for federal $ and the right to preach just as much as they can.

[lastlib]

19. I want the Church of the Sacred Head-Hunters.......

I truly believe that head-hunting is the ONE TRUE path to salvation! If you do not believe that, then I implore you--go and impale your neighbor's head on a pike, and FEEL the salvation of head-hunting come over you!



These fellas got it! Going to heaven, or wherever!

[Bayard]

10. Another case of--Let's throw out the parts of the Constitution that are inconvenient for our wishes.

They want to pick and choose which parts they will follow.

[travelingthrulife]

12. They want their own Constitution. The bible they say.

[RainCaster]

13. Watch out for the Church of Satan

They will use these suggestions to their own benefit and show us all what a stupid idea this is.

[Martin Eden]

14. There is no "conservative" majority in the Supreme Court

They are radical Christo-fascist political operatives.

Would these Religious Liberty activists want the same expanded intrusiveness they want also given to Islamic and other non-Christian religious groups?

If not, then they do not seek true religious liberty. They seek Christian Dominionism over government institutions and public life.

The separation of church and state is the greatest guarantor of religious liberty. They seek to destroy it.

[J_William_Ryan]

20. The Christo-fascist right

has long wanted to eliminate Establishment Clause jurisprudence and abandon the Framers’ mandate that church and state remain separate.

Religion is the bane of humankind – used for millennia to justify racism, bigotry, misogyny, and hate; today is no different, the Christo-fascist right seeks to codify Christian dogma into secular law and disadvantage those who refuse to conform.

[OldBaldy1701E]

22. Religion is the ultimate 'It wasn't me!' situation.

That is why it exists in the first place.

To give people an 'out' from their behavior.

It is rather pathetic, to be honest.

But, of course, responsibility is a foreign concept these days anyway...

[photokat]

21. Liberty? Ha

Religious liberty? They have no idea what the words freedom and liberty mean. Why is it the GOP names things the opposite of what they are????? Must want to confuse their base.

[Marie Marie]

23. Hasn't that ship already sailed?? The amount of day light visible between the two grows dimmer every day.