California Rep. Jared Huffman (D) condemned the "Christian prayer" held at the U.S. Capitol for the National Prayer Breakfast
California Rep. Jared Huffman (D) condemned the “Christian prayer” held at the U.S. Capitol for the National Prayer Breakfast.
In a video on X, Huffman said he was going to the event to “protest it.”
He displayed two pins he wore to the event, one of which said “Build This Wall” for the separation of church and state. Huffman claimed the founders intended there to be such a “wall” for the “secular republic.”
Showing another pin, Huffman said, “This one says ‘Entering Giliad,’ of course a reference to a creepy dystopic theocracy, which is the slippery slope we’re heading down with events like this.”
“We should not be having a Christian prayer service in the sanctum of the United States Capitol in Statuary Hall,” Huffman stated. “This is an actual violation of church-state separation like we’ve never seen. Second year in a row Speaker Johnson has done this, and now they’re doing it in open collaboration with the Fellowship Foundation.” The Democrat called the organization as a “radical extremist group that does things like goes to Africa and supports legislation to kill gay people and openly supports an anti-woman, anti-LGBT extreme agenda here in the United States.”
“Stuff like this, this complete breakdown of church-state separation,” Huffman said, “is a big part of the dystopic authoritarian agenda at the heart of Donald Trump and his MAGA movement, and today, I’m going to try to do my part to just say enough.”
Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast, President Donald Trump declared that Americans should “bring God back into our lives.”
“From the earliest days of our republic, faith in God has always been the ultimate source of strength that beats in the heart of our nation. We have to bring religion back,” he said.
Democratic administrations have also held National Prayer Breakfasts.