Trump is siding with his allies in the Religious Right instead of the LGBTQ community he pledged to support. His hypocrisy shouldn’t surprise anyone. Trump obviously never intended to back LGBTQ rights and since taking office has pursued policies that actually roll them back.

No one minds when fundamentalist Christians attend the churches of their choice, interpret the Bible in a manner that pleases them or even when they spread their faith through voluntary channels. That is the promise of the First Amendment – but it is never enough for many of these folks.

The poll results show that white evangelicals were much more theocratic than any other group. Seventeen percent want their faith to be the main source of U.S. law, and a whopping 54 percent want it to provide the source of some of our laws.

AU President and CEO Rachel Laser describes AU's plans to help the next generation connect the dots between church-state separation and young people's priority issues like LGBTQ equality and reproductive freedom.