Last week, the People For the American Way Foundation partnered with political analyst and cultural influencer Kat Abughazaleh in releasing a video series called “The Dangers of White Christian Nationalism.”
In the series, Abughazaleh explained how modern Christian nationalism is “rooted in white supremacy” and that point was driven home during a sermon recently preached by radical Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon.
Webbon, who has a history of making controversial comments regarding the issues of race and religion, said that he has become a one issue voter in the upcoming presidential election, and that issue is which candidate will “deport millions of illegal immigrants.” The reason Webbon has settled upon this as his primary issue is because, he claims, this nation belongs to “us and our posterity” and not a bunch of non-white foreigners.
This message is, of course, perfectly fitting with Webbon’s entire Christian nationalist agenda, which is rooted in his belief that the American people are too degenerate, stupid, and cowardly to abide by the Constitution and must therefore be governed by a Christian dictator. This dictator, Webbon believes, must “rule with an iron fist” and force everyone to, at the very least, “pretend to be Christian.”
Under his preferred form of Christian nationalist theocracy, Webbon wants to see the Apostles’ Creed added to the Constitution; abortion, pornography, no-fault divorce, in vitro fertilization, and birth control outlawed; non-Christians kept out of his neighborhood; and every non-Protestant Christian reduced to second-class citizenship. Webbon is also a virulent misogynistwho wants to see women banned from voting and publicly executed for making false claims of sexual assault.