{"id":9847,"date":"2026-07-05T11:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/dem-rep-grijalva-catholics-not-christian-enough-for-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T11:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:42:28","slug":"dem-rep-grijalva-catholics-not-christian-enough-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/dem-rep-grijalva-catholics-not-christian-enough-for-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Rep. Grijalva: Catholics &#8216;Not Christian Enough&#8217; for Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representative <strong>Adelita Grijalva<\/strong> of Arizona made the provocative claim during an appearance on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Beat&#8221; on Friday, as <em>Breitbart News<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>During the segment, guest host <strong>Luke Russert<\/strong> pressed Grijalva on what he characterized as troubling findings regarding the Trump administration&#8217;s America 250 initiative, now branded as Freedom 250. Russert suggested the commemoration contains what he called a strong element of Christian nationalism designed to define American identity.<\/p>\n<p>In her response, Grijalva argued that such an approach represents a fundamental departure from America&#8217;s founding principles. She claimed the nation was built on contributions from immigrants of diverse nationalities and religious backgrounds, emphasizing that the United States has no official state religion.<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona Democrat then made her most striking assertion, alleging that the current administration has created a hierarchy of acceptable faith. According to Grijalva, the administration operates on the basis of <em>how Christian you are<\/em>, going so far as to suggest that Catholics are deemed not Christian enough under this framework, while Muslims are excluded entirely from the national vision.<\/p>\n<p>Grijalva characterized the administration&#8217;s approach as creating an exclusive club of elitists that deliberately pushes Americans away from what should be a unifying national celebration. She contrasted this with her vision of America as a melting pot where diversity strengthens the nation rather than divides it.<\/p>\n<p>The comments reflect ongoing tensions between progressives and conservatives over the role of religious heritage in American civic life and national celebrations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva accused the Trump administration of promoting Christian nationalism that excludes Catholics and Muslims from its vision of American identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":9846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[4529,8257,4401,8789,8788,1326,209],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-9847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-adelita-grijalva","tag-america-250","tag-arizona","tag-catholics","tag-christian-nationalism","tag-trump-administration","tag-united-states","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9847"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=9847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}