If you want to watch a video that perfectly captures how hopelessly out of touch the modern Democratic Party is with 99% of the nation, you couldn’t do better than the one-minute, 30-second video posted on X by Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) earlier this month.
Staring into the camera, Huffman announces he is about to cross the street for the National Prayer Breakfast. He quickly assures viewers he is not going to attend the event but to protest it.
Huffman then proudly displays two pins he is wearing to promote his protest. One reads, “Build this wall,” meant to symbolize “the wall of separation between church and state that our founders intended for our secular republic.” His second pin simply reads, “Entering Gilead,” which Huffman says is a “reference to a creepy dystopic theocracy which is the slippery slope we are heading down with events like this.”
Both pins only demonstrate how divorced Huffman is from reality.
The National Prayer Breakfast has existed since 1953 and has been attended by every president since then including John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden.
If Clinton and Obama are your idea of sinking into a “dystopic theocracy,” you might want to have your head checked.
Huffman is equally wrong when he claims the founders intended to create a “secular” republic with a “wall of separation between church and state.”
The phrase “wall of separation between church and state” appears nowhere in the Constitution and is actually pulled from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to Baptists in Connecticut who believed the state was discriminating against them. Jefferson’s full quote assures the Baptists not that the republic is secular, but that the government should pass no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.
While the First Amendment clearly forbids the establishment of an official national church, it clearly allows public officials to profess their faith publicly and make law based on their religious beliefs. In Late Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. United States, for example, the Supreme Court held that Congress had every right to outlaw polygamy because it is “contrary to the spirit of Christianity, and of the civilization which Christianity has produced in the western world.”
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Not done spreading his ignorance, at a press conference later that same day held in opposition of federal school choice legislation, Huffman claimed that the entire school choice movement was part of a larger “Christian nationalist agenda.”
More than 80% of people believe in God, and over 70% support school choice. If Huffman and the Democratic Party want to keep opposing public expressions of faith and people’s right to send their children to a school of their choice, well, it’s their electoral funeral.