Jefferson Beauregard "Jeff" Sessions III (born December 24, 1946) is the junior United States Senator from Alabama. On November 18, 2016, it was announced that President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate Sessions for United States Attorney General. Sessions believes the separation of church and state is an “extra-constitutional doctrine” and “a recent thing that is unhistorical and unconstitutional.” He is also characterized as a radical Christian extremist. Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions was having a confirmation hearing on January 10, where he was answering questions about his attitudes towards important issues in the policy of the country.
Among all other questions, one was particularly interesting. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) asked the Attorney General nominee if he believes a secular person has the same understanding of the truth as a religious individual. “Well, I’m not sure,” Sessions responded, adding, “We’re going to treat anybody with different views fairly and objectively.”
Secularism is the principle of the separation of government institutions and persons mandated to represent the state from religious institutions and religious dignitaries (the attainment of such is termed secularity). And Sessions is indicating that secular views are “different views” – the implication being that these secular views are different from (and inferior to) Christian views. This is not the first time that Sessions has disrespected the secular values upon which the nation was founded. He has even gone so far as to claim the separation of church and state is “unconstitutional.”
In a strange incident last June, Sessions insulted Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor for having a “secular mindset.” At the time, Sessions argued that Justice Sotomayor’s “secular mindset” was “directly contrary to the founding of our republic.”
Sessions launched into an attack against Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) in 2001 for swearing in witnesses without requiring them to use the phrase “So help me God”. Ninety-five percent of the people believe in God," Sessions said. "An invocation of His name, in conjunction with the seriousness of telling the truth, has an importance beyond mere legal requirement."
It only affirms the already known fact that Jeff Sessions is just another devoted Christian with little or no respect for secular Americans.
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