Vice President Kamala Harris‘ campaign hired Rev. Jennifer Butler on Wednesday as its national faith engagement director. The leftist activist claims that Christianity has been “hijacked by white supremacists” and believes the Democratic ticket gives Christians “an opportunity to reclaim faith for justice.”
Butler is a minister in the liberal Presbyterian Church (USA) denomination and founded the leftist think tank and activist group, Faith in Public Life, in 2005, Religion News Service reported. Faith in Public Life has campaigned for leftist policies on issues ranging from immigration and voting to abortion and LGBT rights. Now, the PC USA minister directs most of her public comments toward attacking Republicans and condemning “Christian nationalism.”
Fox News reported that in 2022, Butler wrote a response to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot and the months of Congressional hearings that took place after and claimed that “white supremacists” were “hijack[ing]” the Christian faith. She also called on Christians to “denounce Christian nationalism.”
“We must do more than just watch the January 6th hearings aghast. We cannot allow our faith to continue to be hijacked by white supremacists covered in religious language,” she wrote. “For the sake of our faith and our democracy, we must denounce Christian nationalism and reclaim a faith that values and affirms the human dignity of all people. Including our own.”
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Butler also reposted a tweet in 2021 that said, “It’s impossible to follow Jesus and not embrace CRT [Critical Race Theory]. Pass it on.”
In November 2023, Butler called Republican and devout Christian Rep. Mike Johnson’s election as Speaker of the House “a threat to global democracy.” She argued that Johnson represents political leaders who manipulate religion and called on “religious communities in the US” to “challenge the growth of Christian nationalism.”
Two years prior, in November of 2021, Butler joined a list of faith leaders who condemned the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse after he shot three protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in self-defense. Butler accused Rittenhouse of “murdering” the two men who died after they were shot and called the not-guilty verdict “the newest face of an old evil.”
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Butler said that Christianity “has long been used to justify the oppression of others,” adding, “As Christians, particularly as White Christians in this country… we need as Christians to speak more loudly about what our faith – that our faith calls us to resist the pharaohs, the Egyptian kings, the Roman Caesars of our day.” On Wednesday, Butler slammed the majority of Christians who believe abortion is murder, posting on X, “Being anti-Abortion was always a fig leaf for racism and anti-regulation/taxation agenda.”
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Butler was arrested in 2017 while protesting on Capitol Hill when Republicans were pushing to repeal provisions in the Affordable Care Act. She claimed that a repeal of the Affordable Care Act would kill people.
