During Friday's episode of her "Jenna Ellis In The Morning" radio program, former Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis declared that only Christians are entitled to religious freedom in the United States.
In 2020, Ellis was plucked from obscurity to serve as an attorney for President Donald Trump as he fought to overturn the results of the presidential election. As a result of her efforts, Ellis found herself facing a variety of legal troubles and saw her law license suspended.
Now, Ellis hosts a morning radio program on American Family Radio, where she interviews antisemitic figures like British cleric Calvin Robinson, who was stripped of his license to serve as a priest in the Anglican Catholic Church after he closed out his remarks at the National Pro-Life Summit in 2025 by delivering a Nazi-like salute.
Ellis interviewed Robinson about his forthcoming book "The Silent Jihad: Exposing The Islamification Of The West," which is being published by an imprint run by racist, antisemitic, and deeply misogynistic theocratic fascist Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon. During the conversation, Ellis insisted that the Constitution's guarantee of religious freedom only applies to Christians.
"If we're going to prefer a religion, we need to prefer the Christian faith," Ellis said. "More Christians need to stand up and actually say that and suggest that and say our laws need to be based on truth and the biblical Christian worldview. We say that in a policy context, kind of, but because the left has been so diligent, frankly, in trying to confine Christians to only uttering the Bible as authoritative within the four walls of the church, we often don't use the Bible as being authoritative in the public square. And that needs to change."
"The whole point of having a civil society that recognizes the principles of religious freedom is so that we can go and evangelize, so that we can practice our faith, so that we can train up our children in the way they should go," Ellis insisted. "It's so that we can preserve and protect the Christian way of life. We don't have all of these protections for our rights that our founders recognize come from God, our creator, so that we can go out and live in a pluralistic society and say, 'Well, let's recognize the dignity of Islam.' I mean, that's not the point. That's not the purpose whatsoever. We have a civil government that protects the right of Christians to be able to live and work. And we have this whole perverted notion that somehow our Constitution demands pluralism that just isn't there if you take the whole context of the Declaration, the Constitution, the founding, and everything we're celebrating in America 250."
Ellis’s position, while certainly extreme and unconstitutional, is not entirely a surprise, given that she was a fellow at Liberty University’s Christian nationalist Falkirk Center – since renamed the Standing for Liberty Center – and that she once wrote a book that declared “divine law” is “the only legitimate basis for constitutional authority.”
