FFRF’s NY Times ad gifts Trump a lump of coal
The nation's largest association of atheists and agnostics is gifting President Trump a lump of coal for his all-out assault on the First Amendment.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is taking out a light-hearted, full-page ad in the New York Times — expected to appear on Thursday, the Winter Solstice — about Trump's war on secular rights. "President Trump's great big Christmas present to the Religious Right . . . is a great bi...g war on the separation of church and state," the ad states.
Pictured under that headline are four fat stockings, labeled "Religious vouchers," "Cabinet Zealots," "Church Politicking" and "Stacked Judiciary," stuffed with cash, crosses and gifts. Underneath them are miniature stockings, each with a piece of coal, with greeting cards addressed to "Women's rights," "LGBT," "Planned Parenthood," "Muslim Immigrants" and "Civil Liberties."
The ad is partly a response to Trump's "Merry Christmas" campaign. "There's no 'war on Christmas,'" remarks Annie Laurie Gaylor, FFRF co-founder. "That's Fox News' phony construct. But there most definitely is a concerted war on the First Amendment's cherished principle of separation between government and religion."
FFRF Co-President Dan Barker says, "While we kept the tone of our message light, we don't minimize the grave harm already inflicted on America's wall of separation between church and state." Barker cites as an example Trump's executive order pertaining to so-called religious freedom, which Attorney General Jeff Sessions has turned into a weapon to use against civil liberties and secular government.
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