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Leftists Should Want America to Be a Christian Nation

Amy Curtis
Amy Curtis  |  July 12, 2026 9:00 AM

Democrats not only hate America, but they also hate the Judeo-Christian foundation on which it, and Western civilization, was founded. That's why, when they're not calling them Nazi symbols, they claim Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's tattoos are a symbol of 'Christian nationalism,' as if that's the worst thing that could happen to a nation.

Christianity makes the Left uncomfortable not because it's oppressive and wrong, but because it's the truth. So they lie about it, attempt to oppress it, and elevate ideologies like socialism and Islam in the hopes they can eradicate Christianity from the fabric of America.

Vice President J.D. Vance recently laid out the arguments for our shared Christian heritage, which deeply offended Obama appointee and MS NOW contributor Barbara McQuade.

Here's some of what Vance said:

“The decline of Christianity has left us without a shared moral language,” Vance contends. In its place, the right has worshiped the marketplace, while the Left has embarked on an endless quest of self-indulgent self-discovery. “Each of us, in our own weird ways, is guilty of casting aside the Christian inheritance of our civilization,” he writes.

Vance looks upon the men who won the Second World War as civilizational models. They weren’t just defending ideas — “not ‘liberalism,’ not ‘freedom,’ not even ‘democracy,’” he writes. “It was Western Christian civilization, and the values particular to it: the concept of natural rights, including freedom of speech; a sense of duty to one’s neighbors; an obligation of the strong to protect the weak; a belief in free will and individual conscience.”

Where is he wrong?

He's not. The Left has argued for years that White Americans have no culture while they've worked tirelessly to demonize, erase, and undermine our shared cultural heritage, which includes Christianity.

The opening of that Treaty reads:

In the Name of the most Holy & undivided Trinity.

It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the Hearts of the most Serene and most Potent Prince George the Third, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lunebourg, Arch-Treasurer and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire ...

The Declaration of Independence says we are 'endowed by our Creator,' and numerous writings from the Founding Fathers, while they do not establish a religion, recognize the influence and importance of Christianity to Americans.

Benjamin Franklin said the Constitution could only be maintained by a moral people, and where does that morality come from? Not from the state. Much like our rights, which do not come from the state, morality comes from the Creator.

McQuade hopes that by saying she's a Christian and that she's offended, she'll have the moral authority to be the arbiter of Christian ethics in America. 

I hate to disappoint her, but it doesn't.

I'm a Christian and I'm offended by what the Left is doing in this nation. I doubt McQuade would give me the same moral authority she demands from her proclamation.

I have long argued that the Left is aligning itself with socialists and Islamists to try and destroy any and all vestiges of Christianity because they, as Vance said, understand Christianity underpins our cultural history and fabric. By removing that, along with other shared cultural history and experiences, the Left can erase America. That's their express goal.

They hope the socialists and Islamists will put the final nail in the coffin of Western civilization.

And that's where the danger lies. The Left should welcome a nation founded on Christian ideals. It's what's made possible the nation that makes McQuade a free woman. As I wrote about twice this week, Islamic nations are not concerned with the separation of mosque and state. Both Turkey and Egypt refused to dock a gay cruise on the grounds of morality. It's woven into their laws and government, and it is not tolerant or open. When we bought our plane tickets, Delta warned us that passports with transgender identification would not be accepted by Egypt. At the Cairo airport, I had to stand in a separate, women's-only security line.

In other places, gays are thrown in prison or off of buildings. Women are treated as second-class citizens, if that, and denied access to schooling, jobs, healthcare, and basic freedoms women in the West take for granted. There is no sexual freedom under Islam; there is no abortion on demand. The Left parades around in Handmaid's costumes, pretending MAGA will oppress them, while they look at burqas and hijabs and applaud. I've seen them compare the nun's habit to the Islamic garb, acting like they're the same thing. They're not.

I used to work at a college founded and populated by the School Sisters of St. Francis. For a time, they were also my neighbors, as we lived in an apartment near campus. None of those women wore the habit, which the order had eschewed. None of them were raped, beaten, or murdered for bringing 'dishonor' on their families. Islamic women and girls don't get to say the same thing.

If McQuade is offended by the thought of a Christian nation, she has no idea how bad it can actually get.