His comments were almost immediately endorsed by hard-right Republican Senate candidate Josh Mandel, who tweeted “We stand with General Flynn” and “Freedom of religion ≠ freedom FROM religion,” on Saturday evening. U.S. Needs 'One Religion Under God,' ex-Trump Advisor Michael Flynn Tells Far-right Rally
Michael Flynn, former President Donald Trump's national security adviser, called for Americans to adopt a single religion this weekend during a far-right rally in San Antonio, Texas.
Speaking during an appearance at the ReAwaken America tour – which featured fringe conspiracy theorists like MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, longtime Trump ally Roger Stone and pro-Trump attorney L. Lin Wood – the forcibly retired lieutenant general declared that, contrary to the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of religion, “If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God, and one religion under God.”
His comments were almost immediately endorsed by hard-right Republican Senate candidate
Josh Mandel, who tweeted “We stand with General Flynn” and “Freedom of religion ≠ freedom FROM religion,” on Saturday evening.
Mandel, a grandson of Holocaust survivors running for Senate in Ohio, recently made waves when he claimed, without proof, that Jewish philanthropist George Soros helped mastermind both the COVID-19 pandemic and the racial justice protests across the United States last year.
His Twitter bio states that he is “Fighting to protect the Judeo-Christian bedrock of America.”
Candidate Mark Pukita, who is running against Mandel in the Republican primary, recently ran an ad explicitly singling out his opponent’s Jewish identity, asking “Are we seriously supposed to believe the most Christian-values Senate candidate is Jewish?”
According to Politico, when asked if he believed the ad was antisemitic, Pukita told a forum of voters that “In terms of antisemitism, all I did in an ad was point out that Josh is going around saying he's got the Bible in one hand and the constitution in the other. But he's Jewish. Everybody should know that though, right?”
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