America’s guarantee of religious freedom is for Christians only, not Muslims, claimed former Trump election fraud attorney and podcast host Jenna Ellis and her guest, virulent anti-Muslim activist and “priest” Calvin Robinson, in a recent podcast, “America Under Divine Judgment.”
Ellis, who worked for James Dobson, taught at Colorado Christian University and claims her commentary is “from both a biblical and constitutional perspective.” She used her show to attack “this false notion of pluralism in our society” that says, “we have to treat all faiths sort of equally in terms of belief and practice.”
“We have a civil government that protects the right of Christians to be able to live and work.”
Here’s her 178-word explanation of why American law should “prefer the Christian faith” and exclude others, as found in the transcript of her May 1 show, “Jenna Ellis In The Morning,” which is produced by the American Family Association:
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, says Proverbs, so when they’re old they won’t depart from it. It’s so that we can preserve and protect the Christian way of life. I mean, we don’t have all these protections for our rights that our Founders recognize come from God our Creator, so that we can go out and live 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, absolutely.
Ellis’ anti-Muslim claims mirrored those of her controversial guest, who claims Muslims are engaged in a “silent jihad” to take over the Western nations that grant them freedom. Right Wing Watch first reported on the show.
Calvin Robinson (image from Facebook)
Ellis introduced Calvin Robinson as “a priest,” which is true at least six times over. According to the Anglican publication The Living Church, Robinson sought out any religious body that would ordain him after other established denominations kicked him out. He is now a priest with the little and little-known English Catholic Church in North America, which was founded in 2024 and has two U.S. parishes.
Robinson’s book, The Silent Jihad: Exposing the Islam of the West, claims “the nations once shaped by the Cross will be quietly remade in the image of Islam” unless Christians and pastors rise up and prevent Muslims from building mosques in which they can worship, or exercise freedoms reserved for Christians.
Ellis described The Silent Jihad as “a brand-new book I’m really excited to read” but it wasn’t clear if she had done so beyond the subtitle.
The Silent Jihad is published by New Christian Right and is available as part of the $99, four-book “Christian Nationalist Starter Pack,” which includes books on white genocide and repealing the 19th Amendment that gave women the vote. The publisher seems equally skeptical about religious freedom for Jews, and sells a T-shirt reading: “I’LL TAKE THE CHRISTIAN, HOLD THE JUDEO.”
Ellis was a small-town Colorado attorney who became a Christian celebrity by working with a series of conservative evangelical ministries. She was working for James Dobson at the James Dobson Family Institute when he introduced her to Donald Trump, who hired her as a White House lawyer and placed her on Rudy Giuliani’s “crack legal team” promoting false claims of election fraud.
iJenna Ellis speaks with her attorney, Franklin Hogue, after Ellis pled guilty to a felony count of aiding and abetting false statements and writings, inside Fulton Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee’s Fulton County Courtroom, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, Pool)
“We know that the election was stolen from President Trump and we can prove that,” she claimed in 2020.Then came years of legal problems, or “persecution.” She pled guilty to a felony in Georgia for aiding and abetting false statements. She avoided nine fraud and conspiracy felony charges in Arizona by agreeing to testify against Giuliani. She was censured by the state bar in Colorado.
Trump declined to offer her any support or legal assistance amid her rising legal bills, and she endorsed Ron DeSantis in the 2024 Republican primary.
Trump “should have been financially supportive of those of us who were entangled in that,” Ellis said in a phone interview last week.
Ministries that once promoted her stopped doing so, including Alliance Defending Freedom, Colorado Christian University, Concerned Women for America, Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center, Summit Ministries, and the Thomas More Society’s Amistad Project.
Ellis recently weighed on the GOP primary for Florida governor’s race, where DeSantis is term limited. She supported her preferred candidate by attacking the family values of his opponent, Lt. Gov. Jay Collins.
Florida Politics reported Ellis’s X post about Collins: “You claim to be a family man, but I heard you disowned your son from your first marriage. … So why doesn’t he talk about his first son? Or is he like Biden, only acknowledging the family members who are convenient to his political campaign?”
“Jenna Ellis In the Morning” is available as a podcast. It also airs on eight AFA-owned radio stations in Alabama and 11 other stations in the U.S.
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