[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 57 (Thursday, March 31, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H4055]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM IS A DANGEROUS IDEOLOGY

  (Mr. HUFFMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend remarks.)
  Mr. HUFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to bring attention to a 
dangerous ideology threatening our democracy: White Christian 
nationalism.
  Most Members of Congress don't even know what it means, but experts 
from the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the Baptist Joint 
Committee for Religious Liberty have studied it for years, and their 
new report shows this movement was at the heart of the January 6 
insurrection.
  White Christian nationalism fuses Christianity with a rigid view of 
civic life, a view that true Americans are White, native-born, and 
conservative. On January 6, it was the connective tissue that tied 
disparate groups together and propelled them to action.
  It is infecting our government, from Members of Congress and top 
officials in the previous administration to the wife of a Supreme Court 
Justice, whose messages to the President's Chief of Staff leading up to 
the insurrection smacked of White Christian nationalism.
  Thankfully, good Americans, people of faith and nonbelievers, are 
standing up to this violent ideology.
  Mr. Speaker, I call on Members of Congress to educate themselves 
about White Christian nationalism and reaffirm the separation of church 
and State.

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