A former Trump official’s speech about how Christian nationalists will “impose” their religion on everyone in the U.S. is getting attention online.

William Wolfe served as both the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and a Director of Legislative Affairs at the State Department under Trump, and he is currently the executive director of the Center for Baptist Leadership. This past Saturday, he gave a speech at Bethel Church in Petersburg, West Virginia, where he said that Christians “should not blink” when they tell people how to live their lives.

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“This is how we should order our lives together,” he said. “And frankly, yes, we are going to impose it upon you. If you don’t like it, I’m sorry, but this is good and right and just if it lines up with God’s standards, and I am going to enforce my morality on you in as much as our morality is God’s morality.”

“You should always check yourselves,” he continued. “Do I believe what God believes? Am I defending what God says is good?”

“And if it is, then you should have the courage to say, ‘This is how we’re going to run our town, this is how we’re going to run our county, this is how we’re going to run our state, and this is how we should run the United States of America by legislating the morality that we can find in the Bible.'”

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