WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council today announced a new mobile billboard campaign that is traveling around Politico's DC headquarters and its New York bureau in response to recent comments from POLITICO national investigative correspondent Heidi Przybyla on MSNBC claiming that anyone who believes their rights are derived from God are "Christian nationalists."
"The thing that unites them as Christian nationalists [...] is that they believe that our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don't come from any earthly authority. They don't come from Congress. They don't come from the Supreme Court. They come from God," Przybyla commented. "Now you have an extremist element of conservative Christians who say that this applies specifically to issues including abortion, gay marriage, and it's going much further than that..."
The FRC-commissioned billboard reads: "...they are endowed by their Creator Government with certain unalienable Rights...." Underneath that text is additional text saying: "Axel Springer's POLITICO: Demonizing Christian voters. Attacking religious freedom."
The mobile billboard campaign is a companion effort in conjunction with the launch of a FRC petition calling on the publication to apologize for Przybyla's anti-Christian comments and stop attacking religious freedom in America. The petition states: "I, the undersigned, along with the Family Research Council, am outraged by the malicious smears made against the Christian faith by Heidi Przybyla. Her comments stand in opposition to my faith, and the fundamental principles of our great nation. I demand that Politico immediately apologize for these malicious lies and historical ignorance and stop attacking religious freedom in America."
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins commented on the campaign:
"Make no mistake: It's all connected. The Left's coordinated use of 'Christian nationalism' and the rise in hostility against houses of worship. It's an intimidation game designed to silence Christians and suppress our votes. Now that the Left's election lawfare has misfired look for them to pivot to plan B -- voter suppression through intimidating Christian voters with "Christian Nationalism" propaganda. Don't buy it. Keep praying -- keep voting -- keep standing -- for biblical truth."
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