I had not intended to take the Dallas North Tollway home Wednesday night — the radio said there was an accident and that northbound traffic was backed up into downtown. But I guess God — or, more likely, The Ticket's Mike Rhyner, to whom I was listening to at that moment — had other plans for me. By habit, I pulled onto the toll road only to wind up dead-stopped within a few seconds, staring at a billboard from which First Baptist Dallas senior pastor Robert Jeffress grinned back.
Next to Jeffress it said, in all caps, "AMERICA IS A CHRISTIAN NATION." My rabbi warned me there would be days like this.
The newly planted billboard touts a "Freedom Sunday" worship service June 24 at the downtown church and hosted by the man who serves as one of President Donald Trump's main spiritual advisers — a job that appears to be part propagandist, part contortionist. According to a video Jeffress prepared for Freedom Sunday, there will be "inspiring patriotic worship" and "a salute to our armed forces," followed by the Fox News' commentator's "special message" advertised on that billboard. READ MORE
