Trump is waging a holy war in Iran. A Marin congressman is fighting one at home

Halfway across the world, President Donald Trump is waging a war against a theocratic regime that he considers a threat to American ideals. Back home, Rep. Jared Huffman is doing the same.

Since coming out eight years ago as the only openly nonbelieving member of Congress, the San Rafael Democrat has embarked on a crusade to uphold the constitutional separation of church and state. Through the Congressional Freethought Caucus, Huffman now leads nearly three dozen colleagues in a public defense of secular society against a rising Christian nationalism that he fears will undermine democratic norms and religious freedom in the United States.

His mission is propelled with renewed imperative in the second Trump administration, whose conservative Christian policy agenda aims to “bring God back into our lives,” as the president has put it. This month, whistleblower complaints by U.S. soldiers prompted Huffman and 29 other House members, from within and beyond the Freethought Caucus, to request that the Defense Department’s inspector general investigate whether military officials are using “biblical end-times prophecies” from the Book of Revelation to justify the war in Iran.

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