Officials from President Donald Trump's administration and evangelical Christian leaders plan to gather "with Scripture, testimony, prayer, and rededication of our country as One Nation to God" in Washington, DC, on May 17.

That description is a lie. The real plan here is to push one distinct version of religion – right-wing, MAGA-heavy, politically motivated Protestantism – as the only government-favored faith for our entire country.

"Rededicate 250," as the all-day event on the National Mall is called, will platform almost exclusively those kinds of preachers in a way that brazenly and intentionally violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

This is part of a larger attempt to undo the decrees the men we call our nation's "Founding Fathers" wrote into our first laws, mandating a separation between church and state.

Rededicate 250, pegged to this year's 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, is designed to demolish those decrees.

But that's not what most Americans want.

Americans clearly support the separation of church and state

A Pew Research Center survey, released May 14 to provide context ahead of Rededicate 250, found that just 17% of Americans want Christianity declared as the official religion in this country. Fifty-four percent of Americans support a separation of church and state, while just 13% oppose that. And 52% said “conservative........

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