Later today, the House Rules Committee will take up a bill that contains language to weaken the Johnson Amendment by making it nearly impossible to enforce. During debate today, Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and John Lewis will offer amendments to strip the problematic Johnson Amendment language from the bill.

The Rev. Robert Jeffress wasn’t well known on the national stage until he became one of the earliest and most vocal of the evangelical Christian leaders who supported Donald Trump through his candidacy and into the White House. But to Americans United he was no stranger – in fact, Jeffress has been on AU’s radar screen for two decades.

The ADF is avowedly theocratic. Its goal is to infuse its brand of Christian fundamentalism in every aspect of our lives. The church-state wall, it believes, is an “artificial” barrier.