Dr. Robert Jeffress was on Fox News responding to negative comments from Congressman Jared Huffman (D-California) about Rededicate 250.
A local San Diego network reported that the event on Sunday was a prayer gathering held at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to rededicate the nation as one under God for the country’s 250th birthday. President Donald Trump and other administration official were to take part in the event.
“Trump’s religious extremist event this weekend to ‘rededicate’ our country as a Christian nation would have our founders rolling in their graves. We. Are. NOT,” Huffman posted on X prior to the rededication.
Jeffress claims that the facts are on the Christians' side.
“Whenever Christians get historical, the left gets hysterical,” Jeffress states.
He says examples from the nation’s Founding Fathers claiming America is a Christian nation are everywhere.
“I think of John Jay, the first chief justice of the Supreme Court. He said, ‘In this Christian nation, God has given us the privilege of choosing our leaders’,” Jeffress says.
The notion has even been tested in the country’s courts.
“In the 1800s, the Supreme Court over and over again talked about America as a Christian nation,” Jeffress says.
Jeffress says a few years ago, two professors from the University of Houston did a study of 15,000 documents from the Founding Fathers to discover whom they quoted the most.
“They found, overwhelmingly, that our Founding Fathers quoted the Bible more than any other source,” Jeffress states.
He says the author of that study said something that would have liberals like Congressman Huffman looking for the nearest padded cell.
“Ken Woodward, the author of that article, said historians are coming to realize that the Bible, perhaps even more than the Constitution itself, is our nation's founding document,” Jeffress says.
In his post, Huffman also admonished the use of taxpayer resources and public lands for the event, saying it was “a gross misuse of power to destroy church-state separation.” He doubled down on that statement a video on a different X post, saying the First Amendment guarantees of church-state separation.
In a different Fox News interview, Jeffress points out how false that statement is, claiming neither the First Amendment nor the Constitution calls for a separation of church and state.
