In his speech to Turning Point USA Vice President Vance affirmed belligerently that the United States was a Christian nation. MS NOW writer Erum Salam noted that

The vice president also said that ‘the only thing that has truly served as an anchor of the United States of America is that we have been, and by the grace of God we always will be, a Christian nation’ — a remark met with raucous applause.

This is outrageous for any elected official to say. Has Mr. JD Vance not acquainted himself with our US Constitution? We are not a Christian nation, any more than we are a Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, or atheist nation. Rather, we are a constitutional republic consisting of peoples of many faiths or no religious identity at all. Our founders were very clear about this. They insisted on a firm and clear separation between church and state, they were exact about the distinction between citizen and religious believer, and they made clear that the power of the state could not be used to favor one religious identity over another.

So, no, Mr. JD Vance, we are not a Christian nation, we are not a white nation, and we are not a fascist dictatorship. We are a nation of democratic equals who must respect and engage with each other on terms of equal rights and freedoms. Stop undermining our democratic liberties!