A Wyoming Republican says Christian nationalism has hijacked her state and that on Sundays she can't

Source: Business Insider

A Wyoming Republican says Christian nationalism has hijacked her state and that on Sundays she can't tell if she's listening to a 'sermon or a stump speech'

Kelsey Vlamis
Wed, May 24, 2023 at 6:56 PM EDT

• Christian nationalism has gained traction in the Republican party in recent years.
• A Wyoming Republican wrote an op-ed arguing the movement has hijacked her state.
• She said the growing embrace of the concept has led to "bad church and bad law."

A Republican in Wyoming says the Christian nationalism movement has "hijacked" both the GOP and her religious community "by blurring the lines between church and government and in the process rebranding our state's identity."

Susan Stubson, a lawyer and a member of Wyoming's Republican Party, described the transformation in an opinion piece published in The New York Times this week. Stubson is married to Tim Stubson, also a Republican, who served in Wyoming's House of Representatives from 2008 to 2017 and ran in the primary against Liz Cheney for a seat in the US House.

Stubson said she first witnessed Christian nationalism in 2016 while campaigning for her husband at a monster-truck rally. A man they greeted who was wearing a cross necklace and a "God bless America" shirt said he would vote for him if he kept a certain group of people out of office, using a racial slur. The man proceeded to make racist and xenophobic statements.

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