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Christianity Today has urged Texas lawmakers to grant religious liberty protections to Wiccans, neopagans, and every strange rite men are now inventing. The argument treats the Christian Creeds and the cults of false gods as interchangeable claims deserving identical shelter under the law.
This leveling proceeds from the Managerial Priesthood that now directs much of American Protestantism. It seeks to strip the state of any duty to distinguish truth from error and to reduce the historic Christian order to one neutral option among many.
The principle violated is older than the American republic. At Nicaea the Church declared the one true God in three persons and anathematized every rival confession. That same confession formed the public conscience of Christendom for centuries, ordering law, education, and the protection of worship around the revealed truth rather than around every private invention.
Religious liberty in the Christian tradition protected the freedom to obey the true God. It never granted equal status to those who deny the Trinity, reject the incarnation, or call upon other powers. The American founders inherited this understanding even when they wrote broader language; they did not intend to place the altar of Christ beside the groves of Baal.
When the state refuses to acknowledge any distinction between true and false religion, it ceases to be a minister of God and becomes a mere referee among competing cults. The result is not neutrality but the slow disestablishment of the one faith that once gave the nation its moral architecture.
The Faithful Remnant cannot accept this redefinition. They must insist that any law touching religion serve the truth confessed at Nicaea and Westminster rather than the manufactured equality of all rites.
Texas therefore faces a clear choice. It may continue to treat Christianity as the public standard from which limited accommodations are granted, or it may ratify the claim that every new cult stands on equal ground. The first course preserves the inheritance; the second completes the surrender.
