While 3 in 4 Americans identify with a religious tradition, only 15 percent identify as white evangelicals, according to the 2019 American Values Atlas Survey. To understand the needs and concerns of all American faith communities, it is important to first understand the religious diversity of the nation. While the Trump administration purports to help this narrow band of religious Americans, the reality is that many of its policies have harmed all religious communities-particularly religious minorities. Rather, this subset has a narrow focus on policies that discriminate against LGBTQ people and stigmatize reproductive health services, including abortion, presenting a very skewed representation of religious Americans’ public policy concerns. This is based on the administration’s narrow understanding of religion and public policy-one that privileges the concerns of a select group of conservative white Christians, mostly evangelical, who by no means represent all of America’s faithful. public discourse that the Trump administration’s policies have been largely favorable to faith communities.
There is a commonly held but misleading perception in U.S.
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