By BJC General Counsel Holly Hollman for TIME magazine
MSNBC’s AYMAN show
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi interviewed BJC Executive Director Amanda Tyler on June 1, 2024, for a segment on the AYMAN show about Christian nationalism in Texas and across the country.
A new book from BJC Executive Director Amanda Tyler tackles the gravest threat to religious liberty in the United States -- Christian nationalism -- and explains what can be done about it.
The Bibles-in-classrooms directive already raises significant church-state issues, and now Oklahoma's request for bids to satisfy the requirement is so specific that it seems to leave only one option for which Bible the state can purchase: the controversial “God Bless the USA Bible” recently promoted by former President Donald Trump.
The Johnson Amendment protects nonprofits from being entangled in electoral politics, and in turn it protects taxpayers from unwittingly providing tax exemptions to an agent of a political campaign.