Project 2025 leader falsely claims Harris would end Christians' "ability to worship"
Kevin Roberts is desperate, so he's lying in the name of Jesus
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During a “Virtual Faith Media Roundtable” on Friday, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts falsely claimed that Kamala Harris, if elected president, would take away Christians’ right to worship.
Roberts described Harris as “the most anti-faith, anti-religion presidential candidate in history.” He maintained that “People of faith who are worried about the choice they are making really need to understand what’s at stake.”
“We’re going to lose our ability to worship, we’re going to lose our religious liberty if the Harris-Walz campaign prevails,” he asserted. He cited the vice president’s suggestion to attendees at one of her recent rallies who shouted phrases including “Christ is King” that they were at the wrong rally as an example of her hostility to religion.
There’s literally no evidence she would do this, or wants to do this, or has said anything even suggesting this. Nor is there any legal mechanism that would allow that to happen, considering even church/state separation groups would oppose it. Similar things were said about Joe Biden and Barack Obama and churches were still open on Sundays.
But Robert’s fear-mongering might scare really gullible Christians… and that’s the whole point. Roberts has no problem lying in the name of Jesus.
He’s basing a lot of this on a Harris rally that took place a couple of weeks ago. In the middle of her speech, Trump supporters began heckling Harris, yelling about abortion and apparently screaming “Christ is King.” It’s unclear if Harris heard any of the words they actually said; she just saw demonstrators trying to disrupt her and joked from the stage, “Oh, you guys are at the wrong rally… I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street.”
It was a great line, going directly after Trump’s weak spot—his ego—but conservative propagandists insisted Harris was dismissing Christians as a whole: These guys yelled out “Christ is King” and Harris said they were at the wrong rally! Christians aren’t welcome in the Democratic Party!
That was never the case. That wasn’t even what the initial reporting said. It was the narrative the right ran with later in order to paint Harris as anti-Christian. Which is absurd since she’s Baptist, her running mate is Lutheran, she has repeatedly discussed her faith on the campaign trail, and she has scores of religious leaders pushing for her presidency.
In no way is Harris anti-Christian. But for guys like Roberts, only a certain kind of Christian ever counts.
As if to prove just how delusional he is, Roberts also thinks Donald Trump is a champion of faith—or at least a savior for Jesus. Somehow. Despite everything Trump has done to turn Christianity into an item to sell or a belief to exploit for his personal gain.
Roberts lamented that “There are people of faith who are sitting on the sidelines because they have forgotten that we are electing a president, not a pastor.” He contended that Christians who plan on sitting out the 2024 election because of their concerns about Trump need to remember that “none of us is perfect,” including Trump and Vance.
There’s a reason Roberts is pulling hard for Trump and it’s not because of his piousness. Roberts is the mastermind behind Project 2025. He even wrote the foreword for the document that has been so widely discussed over the past year.
In that foreword, Roberts wrote, “The legacy of Mandate for Leadership [Project 2025’s official name], and indeed of the entire Reagan Revolution, is that if conservatives want to save the country, we need a bold and courageous plan. This book is the first step in that plan.”
That plan would be destroyed if Trump lost. Or at least delayed long enough that it would inevitably be watered down. So Roberts, rather than trying to explain why Trump is worth supporting, is lying about why Harris isn’t.
If you need any more reason not to take him seriously, this is all part of the same playbook he used against President Joe Biden, a fervent Catholic. (Roberts is also a Catholic, by the way.) Project 2025 claimed the “Biden Administration has been hostile to people of faith, especially those with traditional beliefs about marriage, gender, and sexuality.” Now those same nonsense attacks are being aimed at Harris.
If anything, Roberts’ fear should be welcomed by Americans. When he talks about someone being “anti-faith” and “anti-religion,” he’s only referring to his own brand of Christian extremism. We need a president willing to reject that. Harris has preached an inclusive presidency, not one that caters to one particular faith group like during the first Trump term. She needs as broad a coalition as she can get to win the election. For now, that coalition includes evangelicals, progressive Christians, Humanists, Muslims, and everyone else willing to support her. That big tent is what Roberts claims is “anti-faith.”
If and when Harris wins, Christianity will be just fine. Hell, if it’s anything like it was during the Obama years, it’ll grow even more powerful by treating everything as an existential crisis for religion. But at least faith-based bigotry won’t be spread from the highest office in the country. That’s what Roberts fears most.
Kevin Roberts real auguement? That Kamala Harris is a woman. That's it. That's all.
What they mean is the Harris administration doesn’t support stuffing Christianity down our throats