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Donald Trump, the former U.S. president and current frontrunner in the Republican presidential primary, recently promised to implement comprehensive ideological testing for immigrants seeking to come to the United States. He indicated that these tests will also screen for religion and referred to Christianity as “our religion” in his statement.
Straight Arrow News contributor Dr. Rashad Richey reminds Americans that the United States has no official religion and that our nation was founded partially upon the principle of separating the church from the state. Screening immigrants for their religious beliefs, Richey argues, is as anti-American as Donald Trump himself.
Okay, you have to know by now that Donald Trump wants to actually destroy America, not represent America. He wants to take away the Constitution, not uphold the Constitution.
Donald Trump recently said that if you give him power again, if you make him president of the United States again, what he will do is, in fact, create a strong ideological test for those coming into this nation. [Trump said:] “I will implement strong ideological screening of all immigrants. If you hate America, if you want to abolish Israel, if you don’t like our religion, which a lot of them don’t, if you sympathize with jihadists, then we don’t want you in our country, and you are not getting in.”
Okay. So, the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution literally bans our form of government from establishing what’s called a national religion. As a matter of fact, those who founded this nation wanted that part to be key in the foundation of this experiment we call America.
